ry 
@RYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaticus, Solid anid Fixed, 
YELLOW. 
satiric pen of Juvenal, and the epigrammatic muse of Martial. 
See Scheffer, p. 65, chiefly taken from Clus. hist. 273, where 
the reader will find several other curious circumstances respect. 
ing it. But I am pretty well satisfied that these authors have 
mistaken the species, and that the above accounts ought to be 
transferred to the Ag, deliciosus, which is still as highly esteem- 
ed in modern Italy as it was in ancient Rome. ‘The Ag. 
xerampelinus is eatable, but it has a strong heavy earthy taste, 
and is not at all agréeable. 3 ec 8 
This plant must be very rare in this country, as it is unno. 
ticed by any of our botanists. It was first found by my daugh- 
ter'in the Red Rock plantations at Edgbason, several growing 
together of different ages and sizes, in a dry soil, where either a 
larch or a fir tree had been cut down 4 years before. A few 
days afterwards we found it again in mee ve! with Mr. Stack. 
house, but none of our specimens were found with either cur. 
tain or ring. The specimens first gathered afforded a milky 
juice in greater abundance than I ever seen in any other 
species, but these the next day shewed no signs of milk, neither 
were those gathered a few days afterwards on the same spot, at 
all lactescent. ‘This first taught me that that circumstance could 
not be relied on as a specific distinction. It is described and 
figured by Clusius as being involved in a wrapper or yolva, 
when young and about the size and shape of an egg. ‘The cur. 
tain, and its remains on the stem in form of a broad permanent 
ting, are also noticed by the authors referred to above, so that 
notwithstanding the defect of these parts in our specimens, there 
can be no doubt of their existence in others. ee 
Ag. cesarius, ScumrreR, and Bot. arr. ed. ii. Red Rock 
lantations, Edgbaston. 6th July, 17913; and in Sept. 1793. 
ir plantations, Tettenhall, Staffordshire, amongst moss. — 
) July, 1792. 
* Var. 2.. Pileus rich dark reddish brown ; stem brown red. 
rt, STACKHOUSE. 
* Var. 3. Pileus and stem golden brown. Mr. Srackuouse, 
* Var. 4, Pileus rich red purple: stem dusky gold colour. 
Bolt. 14. 
* Var. 5. Pileus rich red brown, stem pinky. 
Scheff. 214.215, a proliferous variation. Scheff. 219, and 
254, are other varieties of this species, but I have no 
evidence that they have yet been found in this island, 
Gitts fixed, not crowded, strong, fleshy, brittle, serrated on 
the edge with a brownish colour. : 
Pires globular, bloomy purple, clothy to the touch, 3 inches 
diameter, Flesh thick, brittle, white. Pec 
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