(CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Solid and Fixed. 
WHITE. 
Srem solid, firm, elastic. rieaedegs 
The whole plant of a tough leathery substance, and indecay 
dries and withers. 
Ag: elasticus, Bolt. Fixby Park, under oak trees. 
Oct.: 1786. Borese. 
Var ©. Pileus smooth, rich red chesnut: stem cylindrical, 
silky, pinky. TLE 
Gixis white, numerous, fleshy, very narrow where fixed to the 
stem. : 
Piiuus convex, 2 inches over. ae 
Stem solid, 2+ inches high. Flesh pinky, rather crooked, near 
+ an inch diameter. Curtain leaving’ a permanent ring 
on the stem. a 
The pileus not woolly in the centre, but patched with rem- 
nants of a shrivelled wrapper, hence it is probable that the 
woolliness mentioned in the preceding varieties is owing to rem- 
nants from the same origin. _ j 
Under chesnut trees, Edgbaston Park. 2 Det, 
Ae. Gills white, in pairs : here fox colour, convex : 
stem brownish: ring white, permanent. = 
Bolt. 19—Battar. 11. F. = 
Gixts fixed, few, narrow, brittle, in pairs. ; 
Pixeus fox colour, slightly convex, edge turned in, 1 to 14 inch 
over. 
Stem solid, pale brown, near 2 inches high, 3 of an inch dia. 
189 
lari‘cinus, 
yt 
meter at top, tapering downwards; several clustered to- 
gether and united near the root. , pe at i cs 
: Curtain narrow, dead white, soft, cottony. Substance dry, 
light, spongy, compressible, elastic. — ed 
Takes root under the bark of decaying larch trees. Ina 
smali plantation at Lee Bridge, near Halifax. [Packington 
Park. | Autumn, 
*Ac. (Boxt.) Gills white, 4 in a set, Pom to brown- cyathoi/dess 
ish white: pileus umber brown, flat, but soon turn- 
ing up: stem grey white, with whiter reticulated 
veins. 
Bolt. 145; (but none of the references.) 
Grits fixed. Ce eee 
iLEus thin, smooth, silky, 2 or 3 inches over, soon turning 
completely up so as to forma funnel-like cup, which some- 
times contracts partially so as almost to form distinct cups. 
Stem solid, consisting of a strong rind, filled with a white 
spongy pith. Surface dusky. white, marked with longi- 
- tudinal reticulations of a whiter colour. Botox. = 
