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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fixed. 
WHITE. 
~ Age crassipes, Scheff. any fucipes.. Bull. Growing in a. 
large cluster, apparently from one root, at the foot of an oak 
tree, in contact with the wood, near-the gate of the red rock 
plantation, Edgbaston. : 25th Aug. 1792. 
Foot of trees, Woolhope, Herefordshire. Mr. Sracknouse. 
At the base of decaying trees, frequent. Mr. Woopwarp. 
Ac. (Linn) Gills“ white, short ones solitary : pileus 
brownish or reddish, convex: ‘stem’ scaly: ring 
broad, turned down. ae 
Pileus large, rather flat, generally’ red, © sprinkled with 
downy angular warts. Gz//s flat, inversely spéar-shaped, mostly 
entire, the few shorter ones very blunt, and without other 
smaller ones on each side them, which is peculiar to this species. 
tem cylindrical, a cavity within it, * base bulbous, warty, top 
expanded. Ring on the middle of the stem, loose, pendent, 
Varies with the pileus, white or red, or crimson, and warty.t 
Grits fixed, white, yellowish with age, numerous, mostly uni- 
form, but a shorter one sometimes intervening. These 
shorter gills vary very much in length, but are rarely less 
_ than 1-5rd the length of the long ones.. pe Weare 
Pirevs varying much in colour, very fleshy, convex, turning 
up with age, 2 to 7 inches over. Flesh white, reddis 
in decay. Warts raised, compact and angular ; or thin, 
. » flat, and ragged. 
Stem. solid, the internal substance shrivelling with age, leaves 
_ irregular hollows ; scaly, bulbous at the base. 3 to 5 
inches high, ¢ to 1j diameter... =. 
Ring broad, permanent, turned down upon the stem, 
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_Ag. stipitatus, lamellis dimidiatis solitariis ; stipite volvato, 
apice dilatato, basi ovato. Fl. Suecs 1235. 0 
This plant rises out of the ground. inclosed within its brown 
studded. wrapper (Volva of some authors, but not of Lins.) A 
section made vertically shews all the parts in their original ‘posi- 
tion, and also the curtain (the real Velwa of Linn.) which re- 
mains long after, forming, when torn by the expansion of the 
pileus, the broad ring upon the stem described abave. The 
warts upon the pileus are fragments of the wrapper, a fact which 
I was for a time indisposed to credit, because they often adhere 
so strongly to the pileus as not to separate without tearing up its 
skin. Mr. Stackhouse justly observes that the warts being un- 
doubtedly the remains of the wrapper, the same species may be 
* Only hollow whenold. | 
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musca’rius, 
+ Mixed with milk it kills flies. The expressed juice rubbed on — 
walls and bedsteads expels bugs. Lis, 
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