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466 | GRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and De- 
: current. Brown. 4 
_ .9/'The whole plant, but especially the gills, abounding with | 
white milky pr at first mild, but at length leaving a slight 
pungency, in the throat. ; 
' Edgbaston Park, under the large clumpof beeches, July. 
pilo’sus. Ac. (Scuarr.) Gills brown, 4 ina set : pileus and stem 
yellowish, tufted with darker hair. 
~/ fini gS Scheff. 80-FI. dan. 491. 
Grits decurrent, brownish, numerous, broad. eis 
Prieus yellowish, convex, flattish, or bossed, tufted with hairs. 
Flesh tough. nits a ee 
. Sri solid, cylindrical, twisted, tapering at bottom, yellow, but 
Jess so than the pileus, rough with dark hairs, 12 to 4 
inches long, thick as a finger, firm, white within, above 
the ring naked. Ring permanent. Curtain fugacious. 
Root closely compressed and tapering. In those clusters 
which I gathered, though the stems were large, yet they 
tapered so much that the junction of them all was not — 
equal to the the size of a single stem. The young ones 
come out straw coloured, 
Specimens; drawing and description, from Mr. SrackHoust. 
vay. palosass Schas cht a, Se . 
. On stumps of pear and oak. (Vide Ag. floccosus.) 
_ Var. 2. Pileus tawny, uniformly shaggy with hair: stem 
white : curtain white: ring permanent. 
iis ence Balt. 42, 
__ 1 am indebted to Mr. Stackhouse for a specimen of this, and 
also for the following remarks ; it is a fasciculated Agaric grow- 
ing on trees. The part of the stem above the ring quite smooth, 
_ Piles clothy and hairy, or regularly woolly all over, 1 think 
ita variety of Ag. pilosus. 
Ag. viillosus, Bolt. Woolhope, Herefordshire, ; 
aS ; Sept. 1791. Mr. SrackHoust. 
Var. 2. Gills paler than the pileus: ‘pileus tufted: stem 
smooth, bulbous at the base. 
At Pendarvis, CornwalJ. Mr. Sracxuouse. Otte 
dclicat‘ulus. AG. Gills brown einnamon, claws white; 4 or 8 ina set 
pileus buffy yellow, flattish ; stem cylindrical, 
yellow. Be ies te etiam: 
“BL dan.1008. 2. will give some idea of it, putting out of the. 
ea stion the hollow stem, and the too great regularity of 
a. SRR amigas Asie gay eae 
Grits a little decurrent, rich cinnamon, white where fixed to 
the stein, 4ina set, 8 in the larger plants; the long gills 
