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opa/cus. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI.) Agaricus. Solid and Fixed, - 
- WHITE. 
‘Ac. Gills white, numerous, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus dead, 
white, nearly fiat: stem white, pith brown. 
Guts fixed, white, very thick set, and very fine, in pairs or in 
fours. - 
~ Piews white, opake, smooth, nearly flat when expanded, but a 
furfuro’sus. 
little turned down at the edge, and a very small protube-_ 
tance in the centre, cracking when old, and the skin 
_ readily peeling off, diameter i$ to 2 inches. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, 2 inches high, 4 inch diametes, 
ae with a watery, and, when old, with a brownish 
pith. ; 
Edgbaston Park. 14th April 1792.—9th Sept. 1791. 
Ac. Gills watery white, 2 or 4 in a set, but irregular: 
pileus yellow brown, scaly; stem yellow brown, — 
crooked, scored. 
Gitts fixed, watery white, turning to a brownish cast with age, 
not numerous, 2 or 4 ina set, but very irregular. 
-Piteus yellow brown, scaly, conical when young, turning up 
and cracking at the edge with age; very uneven, not 
fleshy, 2 to 2 inch over. - 
STEM prod esc brown, splitting, crooked, scored or rather 
fluted with longitudinal furrows, thick as a raven’s quill, 
% tol inch high. Root a roundish knob. 
From the turning up of the pileus and the grooves on the 
stem, the gills get rather a decurrent appearance. 
cras‘sipes. 
Filbert hedge, Edgbaston gardens, 18th June, 1792. 
Ac. Gills white, brownish at the edges, fleshy, distant, 4 
ina set: pileus reddish brown, bossed, cracking : 
stem ‘greatly tapering downwards, ribbed. 
Scheff. 88. 1-Bull. 106, and 516, 2, but the boss not sufi- 
ciently marked, particularly. in the latter plateSchaf. 
87. f 1. 2. 35 only ; the lower figures being -a different 
plant. : 
Giits white, thinner and rusty brown at the edges; in the 
larger specimens near an inch broad. : 
Pitews, surface very uneven with large hollows and large pro- 
tuberances ; ground dirty white tinged and blotched 
with reddish brown, deeper at the central boss, some- 
times set very sloping on the stem so as to be nearly pa- 
rallel with it ; diameter 4 to 6 inches. Flesh spongy 
Stem blotched, compressed, 3 inch diameter at the top, deeply 
._, fibbed or furrowed, and tapering downwards to.a point 3 
4 to5 inches high, 
