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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fixed, 
WHITE. 
‘sometimes smooth and sometimes warty, and that this circum- 
stance cannot constitute even permanent varieties, 
Var. 2. Pileus white, warts yellowish: stem white. 3 
In this variety a short gill, or a gill of a third series, some- 
times appears. Pileus but 2 inches diameter; stem 2 inches 
Edgbaston. 16th Sept. 1791. 
Var. 3. Pileus blood ted, without warts. 
Bolt. 97-Scheff. Wx. 
Stem brownish white. =. ss, 
Ag. muscarii var. Scheff. ‘Dry woods about Halifax, York- 
shire. Mr. Botton. 
Var. 4: Pileus blood red, with white warts. 
_* Bull, 122-Schaff. 27-Fl. dan. 1129-Clus. ii. 280-Ger. em. 
. 1581.3-F. B. iii. 841. 2-Park, 1321, 8-Sterb. 22. As 
_ Stem white. : 
Ag. muscarius. Scheff. Ag. Pseudo aurantiacus. Bull. 
[Plantation, on the south bank of the upper pool, at Hatton, 
near Shiffnal, Shropshire... Under birch trees at Edgbaston. ] 
uepech ie June—Sept. 
* Var. 5, Pileus pale red, with reddish warts, 
Bull. 316-Scheff. 261—Bolt, 139. 
Mr. Bulliard says the gills are loose, but Mr. Bolton ob- 
serves that they adhere by a small claw to the top of the stem. 
The latter says it has no wrapper, but the former observes that it 
has an imperfect one which disappears in the progress of the 
growth of the plant ; and this also is the opinion of Scheffer. 
Stem white above, pinky below. 
Ag. myodes. Scheff. Ag. verrucosus. Bull. Ag. myodese 
Eolt.—In a dry gravelly soil near Leebridge. 
‘- 12th June, 1790, Mr. Botton. 
* Var, 6. Pileus pinky brown, with whitish, flat, thin, rag- 
ged warts. 
Schaff..W. f. 1. 3-But the drawing of the gills does nat 
agree with the description. 
Warts irregular in shape, in clusters, light brownish colour 
and wrinkled, adhering slightly to the pileus, and may be rub- 
bel off. Mr. Sracxuouse. ; 
Ag . mathlatus, Scheff, . : 
* Var. . Pileus pinky brown, satiny, with small, angular, 
hard, greyish warts : stem brownish white. 
Curt. 312-Scheff. 90. 2.4, and 91 ; (but the drawing of 
