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$10 - CRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Fixed, 
YELLOW. 
Sren solid, brown grey, hard, dry, brittle, thickest in the mid- 
dle, 5 or 6 inches high, and 1 inch or more in. diameter, 
in the thickest part. BoLTon, 
Ag. cedematopus. Scheff. Ag. rigidus. Bolt. Plantations 
and wood grounds about Fixby Hall. July, August. 
rheoi’des. Ac. Gills yellow, very irregular: pileus rich orange: 
: stem yellow. 
Guts fixed, yellow, numerous, very short, 2 or 4 in a set, but 
. very irregular, , 
Pitzus orange yellow, convex, scurfy or scaly, sloping ; edge 
very much turned in, 4 inches over. Flesh yellow. 
Srem solid, yellow, fibrous, often crooked and tapering at the 
bottom, compressed, hunched, and variously distorted, 24 
inches high, 1$ diameter. ~ 
Curtain yellow, tough, permanent. Growing in clusters, 
in which many of the plants are much smaller, and the heads 
nearly gibulat, but 3 or 4 attain the sizes mentioned above, 
The whole plant both within and without is nearly the colout 
of Rhubarb. ) 
On the stumps of old Hawthorns, and rotten Alders, Edg- 
baston Park, and in the road from Birches Green toCurdworth, 
cei Sept. Oct. 1793. 
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xerampeli’- Ac, (Scnarr.) Gills golden yellow, 4 in a set: pileus 
nus. . fine lake red, to rich orange buff, convex, bossed : 
stem buff and rose, tapering upwards, — ; 
Sowerby 31-Scheff. 247-Battar. 4, C. just broke forth 
Srom its wrapper—Mich. 77.1—Clus. hist. 272+ 273+ 
Giuts fixed, bright golden yellow, just under the edge of the 
pileus nearly orange, very regularly disposed 4 in a sets 
none of them branched, fleshy, brittle, serrated at the 
; edge with a paler cottony matter. 
Pitzus fine lake red, changing with age to a rich orange and 
_ buff, and every intermediate shade of these colours 
which render it strikingly beautiful: convex, centre 
bossed, edge turned down, 3 to 4 inches diameter, clothy 
to the touch. Flesh pale buff. : 
Srem solid, nearly cylindrical, but gradually tapering upwards, 
rith sips shaded with fine rose red; 3 to 5 inches high, 
2 Inch diameter. Flesh pale, buffy, s , elastic. 
The most splendid of all a — Aa said to be 
common in Italy, and to be brought to the markets for sale 
‘That the ancient Romans esteemed it one of the greatest luxuries 
of the table. Having been made the vehicle for poison to Clau- 
dius Cesar, by his wife Agrippina, it has been celebrated by the 
