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unicolor. AG: Gills cool-brown, numerous, 4 or 8 in a set; pileus - 
= 
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glauco'pus. Ac. (Scuarr.) Gills brown, changing with age to a 
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_ which I imagine that he means they attain this colour in the 
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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fined. 
oe PuRPLIsSH. 
brown, gently convex, concave with age, satiny 
when dry : stem brown. 
Gitts fixed, cool brown, numerous, tender, 4 or § in a set. 
Pitevs cool brown,.gently convex, ‘regular, sinking in the: 
- centre when old; satiny when dry, 2 to 3 inches over. 
Flesh spongy» white. : 
Stem solid, cool brown, cylindrical, 12 inch high, thick as a 
: raven’s quill. © 
Solitary and in clusters. : : 
Plantations, Edgbaston. 13th Sept. 
(3) Gitus purplish, 
pinky or lilac tinge, 4 to Sin a set: pileus chesnut, 
semi-globular, rather flatted at top, edge rolled in: 
stem thick, white or pmky: curtain cobweb-like. 
Bull 96 ; the habit excellent-Scheff. 53. 
Guts fixed, brown; when old changing to a pinky or a lilac 
colour, small for the size of the plant, 4 inasetinthe 
younger, 8 in the older specimens. 
Pirzus uniform, pale chesnut, covered with a very glutinous 
varnish ; semi-globular, but a little flatted at the top, 
and the edge considerably turned in; 4. inches over. 
Flesh white, with a pinky tinge. 
- Srem solid, whitish, with a pinky or lilac tinge, 2 inches long, 
1 inch diameter. Root very large, bulbous. 
Curtain like a fine cobweb, whose threads extend from the 
stem to the edge of the pileus: ; 
Ray Syz. p. 3. n. 15, has been referred to for this plant, and 
also for the Ag. violaceus of Linn. but though the general de- 
scription perfectly accords with this species, yet the ehiie gills, 
which are repeatedly mentioned, satisfy me that it is a plant 
different from this as well as from the violaceus, which it in n0 
respect resembles, except merely in the colour of the stem. 
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Major Velley justly remarks, that this plant of Dillenius agrees 
with 2398 of Haller, who refers to Schaff. 38; a plant not 
now known to exist in England, but probably it will not much 
longer escape the observation of our botanists. 
_ Ag. bulbosus, fl. Angl. is I believe the plant before me. Mr 
Hudson has been censured for making this a species different 
from the violaceus of Linn. but I am satisfied that he has dont 
‘right, and that his character is sufficient to discriminate them. 
He does not say,  lamellis czruleis,” but ** cerulescentibus, DY 
