199 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Solid and Fixed. 
<< WHITE. 
Ag. cyathoides. Bolt. Grew under an old melon frame. 
Feb. 
zona’rius. AG. (Buxu.) Gills buffy white, 4 in a set, but irregular 
and variously branched: pileus pale brown, with 
darker circles, gently convex, edge turned in: stem 
nearly cylindrical, buffy white. 
“Scheff. 235, (very exact to our specimens. )—Bull. 104, the 
plant, but paler than ours. 
Guts fixed, white, with a very pale buffy tinge, numerous, 4 in 
a set when regular, but the long ones often splitting, and 
then the smaller ones are excluded. 
Pizevs pale brown, with concentric circles of a reddish brown, 
smooth, flattish at the top or rather a little depressed, sides 
bent down and a little turned in, 14 to 3 inches over. 
Flesh white, thin. ; 
Sram solid, white, with a slight buffy or pinky tinge, cylindri- 
cal, or a little tapering downwards, rarely quite straight, 
~~ or quite central, 14 inch high, } an inch diameter. _ 
Milk in the gills and cortical part of the pileus abundant, 
white, very acrid. 
Ag. fuscus. Scheff, Ag. lactifiuus zonarius. Bull, Dam of _ 
the great pool in Edgbaston Park, plentifully, but I have not 
found it elsewhere. _ 4th Aug. 
Var. 2. Pileus pale grey brown, white at the edge. 
Farther planta tions, Edgbaston, Sept. 
integer, Ac. (Linn.) Gills white, mostly uniform : pileus of vari- 
ous tints: stem white. 
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~ Giuts fixed, white, mostly uniform, fleshy, moderately thick set, 
yellowish with age. 
Pixevs crimson, pink, lilac, or tawny brown, changing to dirty 
yellow, or to lead colour ;. often glutinous, regularly con- 
vex, often scored at the edge, which turns up when old; 
from 1 to 4 inches over. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, 14 to 24 inches high, $ to 3 of 
an inch diameter. 
Ag. stipitatus, lamellis omnibus magnitudine zqualibus. F/. 
Suec. 1230.—Ray Syn. p. 4. 2. 16. ; : 
_- This is a very common Agaric, and one of the most beaut!- 
ful of the tribe, but its evanescent and varying tints, as well as 
the great differences in its size, are apt to puzzle the younger bo- 
tanists. The skin of the pileus is very ready to strip off. Snails 
are very fond of this species. 
Var. 2. Gills uniform, connected by cross threads: pileus 
pink to lilac. 
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