CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fixed. 
WHITE, 
Pingus convex, spongy, white with a very slight rosy tinge, 
near ; inch diameter. 
Stem solid, white, semi-transparent, with a whiter opake cen- 
tral pith; rather more than an inch long, thick as a 
swallow’s quill. 
- In considerable quantities, but not in clusters, amongst the 
grass called the Den, on the sea shore at Teignmouth. 
7th Oct. 1792, 
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_ Ac. Gills watery white, claws pure white: pileus cream zsti’vus. 
colour: stem whitish: ring permanent. | 
Gitts slightly fixed to the stem, watery white, changing to 
reddish brown when dry, numerous, 4 or 8 in a set, 
but the claws by which the long Gills are fixed to the 
stem pure white, not turning brown when dry. 
Pireus cream-coloured, deepest in the centre, gently convex, 
edge turned down, 2 inches over, the skin cracking 
with age. Flesh white. — - 
Stem solid, brownish, flesh white, whitest and pith-like in the 
centre, 2 inches high, thick as a swan’s quill, thickest 
upwards, 
Curtain white, when torn turned down on the stem ;_ per- 
manent. . 
Edgbaston, on turf lately mown. 16th June, 1792. 
Ac. (Scr#rr.) Gills white, fleshy, irregular, connected la cer. 
by transverse ligaments : pileus livid, watery white, 
bossed, tearing at the edge ; stem white, crooked. 
Scheff. 257. : 
Grits fixed, pure white, fleshy, not numerous, 2, 3, or 4 ina 
set, but mostly 4, the long ones sometimes forked ; they 
are connected by white threads to the pileus and to each 
other . ; : 
Piteus livid watery white, edge first turned in towards the 
stem, then turning up, irregular, cracking and tearing, 
‘ centre bossed, surface scored, 1 to 2 inches over. Flesh 
white, 
Stem solid, white, crooked, nearly cylindrical, often compressed, 
rarely quite central, 2 inches high, full } inch diameter. 
This has very much the habit of the Ag. aurantius, but the 
solid stem, and the want of slimy surface distinguish it. The 
drawings of Scheffer 257, are very characteristic, but the co- 
louring not very exact. : 
Ag. lacer. Scheff, Edgbaston, after much gentle rain, by 
the long stew. 
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12th Oct. 1791. - 
