CRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI. Agaticus, ' Solid and Fixed. 
. : Brown. ; ; 
Gris fixed, pale reddish brown, broad, 4 in'aset. 
Pingus convex, very irregular, sometimes peaked, brown buff, 
more or less white at the edge, 1 to i inch over. Flesh 
thin. 2 ~ 
201 
Stem solid, pithy, yellowish white, rarely straight, often eccen- r 
tric, i to 13 inch high, thick as a small goose quill. In 
clusters, often united both at top and bottom, the pileus 
seldom regular from this cause. The plant has a sweetish 
hawthorn-like, but nauséous and fainty smell. In its 
very young state the gills seem loose, but as the stem 
advances in growth, part of the central flesh of the pileus 
seems to elongate to form the upper part of the stem, 
and then they are evidently fixed to the stem. 
Slope of the Boat-house field, Edgbaston. 10th Sept. 1793. 
Ac. (Batscu.) Gills cool brown, numerous, 4 or 8 in a 
set: pileus brown,- gently convex, concave with 
age; satiny when dry: stem brown. 
Bull, 439, the lower frgures. 
Gitts fixed, cool brown, numerous, tender, 4 or 8 in a set. 
Pizzus cool brown, convex, regular, sinking in the centre when 
old, viscid when moist, satiny when dry, 2 to 3 inches 
over, Flesh spongy, white. ee 
Stem solid, cool brown; 14 inch high, thick as a raven quill. 
Mr. Bulliard has figured several varieties in the plate refer- 
red to above, but I think the upper figures ought to rank under 
the Ag, violaceus, horwitittéodieg the want of a curtain, 
Plantations, Edgbaston. = = = = ~—«ASth Sept. 
Ac, Gills reddish brown : pileus brown, purplish at the 
‘edge: stem violet coloured, scurfy, bulbous at the 
base 
Batsch. 74. 
Grits fixed, reddish brown, numerous, 4 or 8 ina set, the 
_ surface when abraded assuming a purplish tinge. 
Pitzus brown, of a faint leaden purple towards the edge, con- 
vex; 22 inches over, Flesh white, changing to purple 
When exposed to the air. pe . 
Stem solid, of a leaden purple, more or less streaked with brown, 
2 £ inches high, 3-sths diameter, swelling at the base 
‘into an oblong bulb, Curtain fugacious; leaving a stain 
on the stem. 
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nu dus. 
subpurpu- 
ras’cens, 
Ag. obsoletus, Batsch.. Ag. hacephalus, Bull. Pastures 
Ig obsoletus, : Ag: gap aceph ss ee : 
Edgbaston, 
