CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI, Agaricus. Solid and Fixed. lay 
Wate oe | 
The whole substance very strong and elastic. It grows sin- 
gle or in clusters. oe 
Under the large oak by the bolt of the square stew, Edgbas- 
ton Park. 18th Sept. 
Var. 3. Pileus rather conical, brown chesnut, very viscid : 
stem whitish, cylindrical : curtain white, fugacious, 
Gitts fixed, white, 4 in a set. 
Piieus edge turned in, 2 inches over, entirely covered with a 
viscid matter, which drying preserves its brightness like 
varnish. Flesh white. , Shag TITS - oe 
Stem cylindrical, above where the curtain was attached white 
and scurfy, below stained with the colour and the var- 
nish of the pileus; 2 to 2} inches high, of an inch 
or more in diameter. 
Partakes the toughness and elasticity of the other varieties, 
which seems owing to its outer coat, which is both tough and 
elastic, readily stripping from the flesh which is rather tender 
and brittle, oe : 
In clusters, on the roots of fallen firs, in dry plantations at - 
Rigbahac™ Pee PURPAAE AGS Oc. 
Ac. Gills white, 4 in a set: pileus dull pink, convex : obsoles’cens 
stem pinky brown, cylindrical. ee | 
Batsch. 102. 
Gis slightly fixed, whitish, large ones about 56. 
Prius dull brown pink, convex, but flatted and somewhat de. 
pressed when old, 1 to 1% inch over. 
Stem solid, but pithy ; pinky brown, cylindrical, 1 to 13 inch 
high, thick as a goose quill. 3S ese 
Ag. obsolescens. Batsch. In the Park at Packington, War- : 
wickshire. 
Ac. Gills brown white, 4 in a set: pileus cool brown, stip ‘itis. 
darker and woolly in the centre : stem pale brown 
with a buffy tinge, thicker and bulbous at the base; 
ring white, permanent. . 
Bolt, 136—Mich. 81. 2. 
Grits fixed, quite white, narrow, thin, pliable. 
Pigvs at first bluntly conical, then nearly flat, almost white at 
the edge, cracking very much through the whole sub. 
stance, but not turning up, 2 to 4 inches over. 
Srzm cool brown, 3 to 4 inches high, 4 an inch diameter. Cur- 4 
tain thick, tough, cottony, white. - 
Ag. fusco-pallidus.. Bolt. Edgbaston Grove, where large 
trees had been fallen four or five years before.  ¢d Oct. 1791. 
_ Var. 2. Gills brown white, 4 ina set : pileus rich brown: stem 
pinky or brownish white, tapering at the base; ring yellowish, 
