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168 | CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Decur- 
= Be rent. RED. 
Stem solid, pinky red, cylindrical, but thickening at the top, 
thick as a crow quill, i; to 2 inches long. In a section © 
of it, the central part is less compact and paler than the 
outside. guise 
This elegant little Agaric is seldom found in full perfec- 
tion, as it soon shrivels and. loses its brilliant colours, but it does 
* mot rot. - : | 
Ag. rosellus. Batsch. Amongst old alder stumps, in the 
alder plantation, Edgbaston. : meek 2d Oct. 1791s: 
jecori‘nus. Ac. Gills pinky liver colour, numerous, in pairs: pileus 
_-pinky brown, satiny, flat: stem pinky above, yel- 
lowish below, tapering downwards. 
Grits decurrent, rich pinky liver colour, with age blacker at 
the edges, and deep tan-leather colour at the sides; in 
pairs; the small gill varying in size, but very small in 
pee to the large one; the large gill sometimes 
Pizeus pinky brown, convex and bossed when young, flat and - 
fe more liver coloured when older, but the edge always turned: 
in; surface smooth, shining, satiny, from 3 to 5 inches 
over, Flesh pinky white. — - . 
Str solid, spongy; pinky brown upwards, yellow brown below, 
tapering downwards, rarely’straight, 2 to 3 inches high,’ 
4 to 1 inch diameter. Flesh fine rhubarb yellow. 
From some appearances which took -place in the pickle in 
which it was preserved, I suspect that in favourable circumstan- 
ces it will be found to contain a milky juice. 
Pine plantations at Barr, near Walsall, Staffordshire. 
' : 20th July, 1792. 
. delicio'sus. Ac. (Linn.) Gills flame-coloured, narrow, regularly 
- branched: pileus rich red brown, flesh orange CO- 
Jour: stem orange, tapering downwards. 
Fi. dan. 1131, 
Ag. stipitatus, pileo testaceo, succo lutescente. Linn. 
Gixts decurrent, brighy aurora or flame coloured, very narrows 
: regularly branched in this manner—at some distance 
. the stem each long gill divides into 2, each of these divi- 
cs, sions again divides into 2, and lastly each of these subdi- 
visions before reaching the edge of the pileus divides 
again; the ends of the last branchings next to the edge 
the pileus thicker than the ether parts 
Pingus rich red brown, neariy flat, but the centre a little hol- 
_ lowed, and the edge turned in; from 14 to 3 inches overs 
Flesh pale orange, at ds 5 985 4d 
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