CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Solid and Fixed. 
WHITE. 
the gills does not accord with our plant, nor with the au- 
thor’s own description.) Mich. 78. 1. 
Stem pinky brown, or brownish white. Rizg reddish buff. 
Flesh white, getting a pinky. tinge after being some time ex- 
posed to the air. 
The 6th and 7th varieties constitute the verrucosus of Mr. 
Hudson, who refers also to Haller 2397, which is a different 
plant, the same as Bauh. hist. iii, 826. Sterb. 20. K. and Ray 
Syn. 7. 31. oe ee ae 
Ag. verrucosus. Huds. Ray Syz. p. 3. 2. 12. Ag. macula- 
tus and pustulatus. Scheff. Edgbaston Park, where grass had 
been mown. May. Aug.— Noy. 
* Var. 8. Pileus dirty yellow, with dull red clouds. 
Curt. 312, 
Pileus smooth, glutinous. Warts light-coloured, thin, 
crumpled. Stem slightly tinged with red. Rixg beautiful, 
standing aloof from the stem in a wavy line, and finely striated, 
~ Pendarvis, Cornwall. 28th July, 1790, 
- Var. 9. Pileus olive brown: warts black. 
Pileus in colour not unlike the bark of a young ash tree, _ 
Warts irregular, large, blackish. Mr. Srackwouse, 
Pasture land, Woolhope, Herefordshire. : 
_ Var. 10, Pileus olive brown, without warts: gills 4 ina 
Set. : 
This turns up with age, not in the usual mode at the edge, 
but the whole pileus doubled together. _ 
Fir Plantations, Barr, Staffordshire. 
T have been the more particular in the display of this species _ 
and its different varieties, on account of the great 
caused by the latter, the various times it has been figured under 
different names, and the authority of Mr. Hudson, who has 
made two species out of one, and has inadvertently quoted as 
a synonym still another, and really a different plant. 
Ac. (Scuarr.) Gills white, numerous, 8 in a set: pileus 
brown, shaded, convex, irregular, cracking5 stem 
white, conical, eccentric. 
Scheff. 64. a 2. oe 
Gitts fixed, watery white, numerous, 8 ina set, the smaller 
gills varying much in length, ; 
Pizeus light watery brown, with various shades, scored, convex, 
rather bossed, edge turned down, and the sides with 1 
or 2 large irregular depressions, cracking with age, 23 to 
4 inches diameter. Flesh white, spongy. 
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