CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fixed. 
Brown. 
Prius regularly and gently convex, light cinnamon, sometimes 
darker in the centre, edge a little turned in, viscid in. 
moist, satiny in dry weather; 1 to 3 inches over, Flesh 
white, not thick. Curtain evanescent, leaving a stain on 
the stem. 
- Sram solid, whitish, with a few brown scales, often stained by 
Jacticau'lis. 
ebsole’tus. 
the fall of the seeds from the gills, which are of a Spa- 
nish snuff colour, cylindrical, but rather thickest up- 
wards; 2 to4 inches high, 4 to 4 inch diameter. Root 
—_asmall bulb. 
A large quantity of seeds fall from the gills of this Agaric, 
staining the fingers as well as the stem of a Spanish snuff colour. 
Stem solid, but it has a central pith different in colour from the . 
surrounding flesh, 
Ag. orichalceus. Batsch. Ag. aimatochele. Bull. if the dissec- 
tion should agree. Plantations at Edgbaston, and at Barr. Sept. 
Ac. Gills brown, numerous, 2 or 4 in aset: pileus con- 
vex, light brown buff, border whitish: stem white, 
bending, splitting. 
(One of the taller fig. in the plate of Bull. 102, if properly 
coloured, would give a tolerable.idea of this plant im its 
fully expanded state.) - é 
Grtts fixed, brown, very numerous, 2 but mostly 4 in a set. 
-Pixeus gently convex, nearly flat, when fully expanded, crack- 
ing in the centre, brownish buff in the middle, paler and 
almost white towards the edge, 2 to 24 inches over. 
Flesh very thin, white, Mee 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, tender, splitting, mostly crooked, 
__ _4or 5 inches long, thick asa goose quill. 
Juice of the stem dilutely milky, the milk not acrid. The 
whole plant very tender. 3 
Plantations, Edgbaston, amongst old leaves and deep grass; 
several together. ith Oct, 1790,—25th Sept. 1791. 
Var. 2. Gills light reddish brown: pileus dark red brown, 
centre depressed ; stem short. : 
Gitts fixed, lighter colour than the pileus, numerous, unequal. 
Prizvus deep red brown, smooth, circular, depressed in the cen- 
tre, edge turned down, + inch over, : 
Stem solid, short, thick, the size of a reed. Fuice milky, mild. 
Specimen and description from Mr. SrackHoyse. 
Ac, (Batscu.) Gills light reddish brown, -4 in a set? 
- pileus brown buff, whitish at the edge: stem yel- 
tow white. . ‘ 
Batsch. 103-Baull, 576, 16. 
