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906 | CRYPTOGAMIA: FUNGI. Agaricué.! Solid and Fired. 
; Bot. 
Srem solid, dead reddish brown, Sarkening and becoming irre- 
.) ularly. hollow, with age; generally crooked, 2 to 3 
inches high, thick as a swan’s quill. ee 
Ag. sericeus, Bull. but that name had been given before by 
Schzeffer and Batsch to another plant, Plantations at Fdgbas. 
YS SS OE: 
ton, in clusters. 
ark es SF pe Cis 
calycifor’- Ac. Gills buff, very numerous, 4 or 8 in 4 set: pileus 
mis. brown buff, entirely inverted: stem pale-brownish 
: ‘buff. Prat 
x Batsch, 118s (represents our plant, but the Gills in ours aré 
not split, nor have they the least degree of decurrence.) 
Guts fixed, buff, changing to snuff-coloured: brown ; very nu- 
~ Seay “merous, 4°0r 8 inaset. © We to ; ore 
Pitews brownish buff, deepest in the center, broad, thin, soon 
“turning entirely up, 1°to 2 inches over. 
Stem solid, but becoming hollow with age, pale brownish buff, 
: 2 inches high; thick as a raven’s guill. 
The whole pileus soon turns up so that the plant appears like 
arummer glass. It is rare to detect it with the pileus other. 
wise than turned up, so that its convex or flat stateis 
probably of short continuance.’ ¢ : 
Plantations in Edgbaston Park, 5th Noy. 1790. 
i’itus. Ac. Gills buff, narrow, few, 4 ina set: pileus nearly 
~~ “flat, leathery, livid tawny: stem buff, rather thick. 
Grits fixed, light buff, 4 in a set, but irregular, very narrow, 
very thinly set, curling up in drying, and adhering so 
closely to the under surface of the pileus, by means of a 
gelatinous matter with which the plant abounds, that 
each gill assumes the appearance of a hollow tube. 
Piteus tawny, inclining to a leaden hue, smooth, of a thick 
leathery texture, but not fleshy, 1} inch diameter. 
Srem solid, light buff, thick for the size of the plant. Major 
, VELLEY. : 
In a pine grove by the sham castle on Claverton Down, near 
Bath, but rare. Major Vetter. In Packington Park, War- 
wickshire, 
tuber, Ac, Gills buff, 4 in a set: pileus orange red, flat, border 
<i turned down: stem reddish, cylindrical: juice — 
milky, mild. = 
Gitts fixed, pale buff, numerous, 4 in a set. 
Prxeus full brick red, tochesnut, flat; but the centre depressed, 4 
and the edge turned down; 1 to 2 inches over. 
