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-CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid arid Fixed. 
WHITE. 
Srem solid, white, smooth, rather crooked, tapering to the root, 
rarely central, 23 inches long, + inch diameter. Ray 
Syn, 5, 21, which Mr, Curtis would not have assigned 
to the Ag. ovatus, had he sufficiently considered the de. 
scription of Ray. . ~ 4 
_ Ag. terreus, Scheff. In clusters. ‘Edgbaston, under the 
large oak by the*bolt of the square stew. 4th Sept. 1791. 
Var, 2. Gills white, 4 in a set, wide apart : stem tapering 
_ upwards. 
Scheff, 64. 4-Fi, dan, 832. 3, seems to be the same plant, 
of adwarfish growth, and a rough pileus, 
Grits fixed, very white, fleshy, broad, wide asunder, 4 in a set. 
Pingus reddish mouse, satiny, convex but uneven, 3 inches 
diameter, oblique. 
Stem solid, very white, crooked, tapering upwards, many 
__united together at the base, 2 inches long, 4 inch dias 
fete 
: Coplar Wood, Herefordshire, Sept. 1791. 
Specimen, description, and a drawing from Mr. STackHouse. 
Var. 3, Gills 8 ina set: pileus scaly: stem thinnest in the © 
middle: root bulbous. . “ 
Ag. terreus, Scheff, Ag. scaber. Fl, dan. In the garden 
at Edgbaston, x 18th June, 1792. 
* Var. 4, Pileus livid, conical, bossed: gills dirty white : 
stem crooked. : 
Schaef. 14, 
Stem irregularly hollow when old, and often so much curved 
that the pileus is bent down to the ground. Pileus very variable, 
somewhat hairy, paler when old, and the border frequently split, 
Mr. Woopwarp. The death-like paleness of the gills distin- 
gone this plant. The hue of the pileus yariable, but most 
frequently of a dove-colour. Scheffer’s t. 14, the gills ill- 
coloured. ‘This Agaric frequently comes up in waved lines of 
a considerable extent, or in great circles, 10 or 15 yards in dia- 
meter. Major Vetter, 
Ag. lividus. Huds. 616, Relh, 937, Ag. multiformis. 
Schief . 
Woods and hedges. [Pine grove, Kirby. Mr. 
Woopwarp. | Oct.—April- 
* Var. 5, Gills extremely white: pileus mouse-colour, 
shaded with brown: stem cylindrical, thick, dirty whitey 
straight. 
Gills not reaching the stem, but leaving a channel round it. 
Pileus flat, 24 inches over. Stem 24 inches high, 4 inch dia- 
meter, splitting. Drawing and description from Mr, Srack- 
HOUSE, = sex? ey - 
