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falcon, 
amethys'ti-Ac. (Hups.) Gills purple, 2, 3, or 4 in a set : pileus pur- 
nus. - 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Decur- 
rent. — YELLOW. 
' Prreus brown, or reddish buff, clammy or satiny, nearly flat, 
but the edge at all times much turned in, and woolly; 
diameter 3 to 4 inches. Flesh yellowish, 
‘Stem solid, buff in the middle, brown below, yellow at the 
top, nearly cylindrical, 13 inch long, 1 inch diameter : 
a0 - somewhat eccentric. id Ze OEE 
», The general habit of this plant induces me to place it here, 
but the want of milky juice would rank it as a variety of the 
Ag. contiguus; knowing however that those plants most 
abounding with milk are sometimes without it, as.I have parti- 
‘cularly found in the 4g. xerampelinus, I think it very possible 
that a more favourable concurrence of circumstances may teach 
‘us that it is really a milky species. 
Under large Spanish chesnut trees, in the Park at Edgbas- 
$02 nats 6th Aug. 1791. 
Ac. (Boxr.) Gills pale yellow, not numerous, 4 in a 
_ “set: pileus red buff, conical, changing to convex, 
and bossed, the edge at length turning up: stem 
whitish, cylindrical. . : 
Bolt. 56-Scheff. 50 and 54, 
Giuts pale yellow, decurrent, ‘not numerous, 4 in a set, but the 
small teeth often. excluded, ‘andithe larger ones branch- 
ing and inosculating near. the edge of the pileus. 
Piteus red buff, most red in the centre, paler with age, at first 
_ bluntly conical, the edge turned in, then nearly flat, but 
bossed in the centre, at length the edge turns up aud 
_ tears. Flesh white, thin, semi-transparent. te 
Sram solid, cylindrical, but taper and bent towards the root, 
white or very pale buff, or very dilute yellow, 14 to3 
inches. high, 5 to } an inch diameter. = 
Ag. pallidus S ochroleucus. Scheff, Ag. fulvus, Bolt. On 
the bank by the long stew, Edgbaston Park. _ Oct 
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(6) Grits purple. | , 
ple, convex : stem pale purple, cylindrical. 
Bull. 198 and 570-/ but Scheff. 13, which he quotes, is # 
different plant.) 
Guts but slightly decurrent, beaatiful violet purple, not nume- 
- 2 ina set in the smaller, 3 and 4 in the Jarget 
nts. : : 
Pitrus puree smooth, convex, with age the middle a litle 
. owed, 1 to 2 inches diameter. a 
