204 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fixed. 
: PURPLISH. 
the base. Bulliard remarks a circumstance which I have ob- , 
served, that in maturity it emits a plentiful powder of the colour 
of Spanish snuff. Mr. Srackuouse. 
_ Ag. violaceus and amethystinus. Scheff. Ag. araneosus vi0~ 
_ Taceus. Bull. Ag. violaceus. Bolt. Edgbaston and Barr planta. 
‘tions, not uncommon. Oct.—Dec. Woods near Bath, Major 
Vecrey.—Powick near Worcester. Mr. StacknHouse. 
_ Var. 2. zudus, Without a curtain: gills very irregular. 
Bolt. 147-Bull, 439. A-Scheff. 34—Fl. dan. 1133. 
Girts violet coloured, irregular in disposition, 2, 3, or 4 ina 
set, turning brown with age. 
Prxeus pale brown with more or less of a violet tinge, smooth, 
convex and bossed, when fully expanded concave, ; to 
2 or 3 inches diameter. 
Srem solid, pale brown with a violet tinge, scored, cylindrical 
upwards, but thickening into’ a bulb at the base, 14 to 
2 inches high, and + to + inch diameter. 
This plant varies very much in size, and the violet tints are 
very evanescent. 
Ag. bulbosus. Huds. Ag. cerulescens. Scheff. Ag. nudus. Bull. 
Barr, Staffordshire. Edgbaston, pastures. Oct. 
It is often found with us in similar situations with the pre- 
ceding; nor can I consider with Mr. Bulliard that the absence 
of the curtain ought alone to constitute a different species. 
eya‘neus. Ag. (Buxt.) Gills brown lilac, numerous, 8 ina set: 
pileus bluish green, gently conxex, edge a little 
turned down: stem bluish green, scored, crooked: 
curtain white. Sens 
Bull, 170. and 53C-Bolt. 30. | 
Gis fixed, brown lilac, white within, generally 8 in a set, 
but in some large specimens the 2 longer series of g 
divide towards the edge of the pileus, and then the small 
gills are not to be found. 
Pitevs conical when young, at full growth nearly flat, but 2 
little turned down at the edge: cracking in the centre 
wih age; bluish green, viscid, 2 to 3 inches over. Flesh 
white. 
Stem solid, bluish green, whitish with scurf when young, 
crooked, scored, 2 to 3 inches high, 4 to 4 inch diame- 
ter. Root bulbous. Curtain white, cottony. : 
‘It is remarkable that when the green viscid mucilage 1s 
scraped off the pileus, or wears off in its more advanced ages 
the real colour appears, which is nearly that of copper. Also 
_ what the gills are white when their cover of parple paint is re- 
