198 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Solid and Fixed. 
Brown. 
Batsch..109. 
Gitts fixed, pale dead brown, narrow, not crowded, 4 in a set. 
Prievs pale cook uniform brown, rather glossy, flat, the edge 
F 
turned down and very thin; 14 to2 inches over. Flesh | q 
hardly any. aa 
Stren solid, whitish brown, straight, 14 to 2 inches high, 4 inch 
-.. diameter, thickest adjoining to the pileus, = 
The whole plant has a tough leathery texture, The name 
iven by Batsch has likewise been applied by Bolton and Bul- 
Fard to the Ag. alneus and Ag betulinus, but improperly. All 
the specimens we found had their stems perfectly flat, and the 
gills readily separating from the top of the stem but not with. 
out taking with them its outer skin. ; Bs 
Ag. coriaceus. Batsch. Plantations at Edgbaston, on rotten’ 
sticks, : Septe - 
- eacumina’- Ac. Gills deep yellow brown, 4 in a set: pileus pale yel- | 
a low brown: sharply peaked: stem pale brown. 
Guts fixed, deep yellow brown, 4 in a set, moderately nume- 
sail 
ws Ss. 
Pixeus pale yellow brown, convex, sharply peaked in the centre, 
dry and sometimes rather satiny, about 1 inch over, when 
fully grown subject to crack at the edge, — 
' Flesh dull pale brown. “eat 
Stem solid, pale brown, size of a crow quill, near 2 inches high. 
The central part of the stem filled with a whitish pith, 
and when this shrivels it has much the appearance of a 
“hollow stem. 
The conical pointed boss in the centre of the pileus is the 
most striking feature in this.plant. 
Red rock plantation, Edgbaston, —_, 30th Sept, 4 
araneo sus, Ag, (Butt.) Gills red brown, broad and short, 4 in 4 
set: pileus brown, conical, cracked: stem brown, 
tapering upwards: curtain pale brown. 
: Bull. 431, 43 araneosus rimosus, . 
Guts fixed, reddish brown, 4 in a set, large gills nearly as broad 
as long, and fixed by a claw tothe stem, 
Piieys convex, rather conical, brown, satiny, with cracks of 2 
paler colour from the centre to the edge, 14 inch overs 
Flesh very thin, pale yellow, gay 
Srem solid, brown, satiny, cylindrical, but rather thickening 
_ towards the bottom, 2 to 3 inches high, 2-8ths to 3-Sths 
_. diameter, ee j F 
Curtain pale brown, cobweb-like, evanescent. 
Edgbaston Park, : 17th Sept. 1791+ 
