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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Loose, 
: WHITE, — 
large pullet’segg. If this be cut through vertically, the section 
brings to view the gills, the pileus, the stem as yet imperfectly 
formed, and the curtain extending from the stem to the edge of 
the pileus, the remnants of which in a more advanced state of 
rowth, are sometimes observable fringing the edge of the pi- 
ous and always forming a broad ring round the upper part of 
the stem. A good drawing of it in its egg-state may be seen 
in Bulltard, pl,364. A.—Also see our plate 19. 
It is subject to several other trifling variations : 
1,—Centre bossed surface very viscid, changing to pale ash- 
colour. This happens principally in the autumn. 
2.—Proliferous; another smaller one of the same growing on 
the pileus of a larger plant. This J have seen happen 
when growing in the rank soil of a hot-bed in the middle 
of summer. oe 
Ag. bulbosus. Scheff. Ag. ovoides albus. Bull. Ag. verna- 
lis. Bolt. It may be found from spring to the end of autumn 
in rich soil. Not unfrequent in gardens, particularly on the 
sides and the base of hot-beds. I have seen it on a mushroom 
bed with the Ag. campestris. There are still other varieties 
figured in plate 577 of Bulliard’s Agarics, and also in plate 597. 
* Var, 2. Pileus dusky mouse, set with warts of rather a 
paler colour. : : 
Bull. 593, also the plate without a number, named Ag. silt» 
tarius~Bolt. 47. , 
Gills 4 in a set. but irregular. Stem 4 or 5 inches high 3 
the curtain remaining on it, Bott. : 
Ag. verrucosus. Bout. but none of his synonyms, 
In woods about the roots of trees, but rare, In the Shroggs 
opposite Birks Hall. Bout. 
*Var. 3. Pileus scarlet, with white blotches, the fragments 
of the inner wrapper, : Reece | : ae 
Bolt. 46. 
_ Gills loose, 4 in a set. Piles convex, smooth, Flesh 
thick, white, brittle. Stem firm, solid, brittle, cylindrical, 
rhe. Seite poe poring a permanent ring. BoLTon. 
ig. nobilis. Bolt, Ina plantati ill’ i ear 
Huddersfield. Pan ee oe 
Var. 4, Pileus scurfy : seem hardly 2 inches high. - 
In pastures. Autumn. 
conter’tus. Ac, (Boxt;) Gills brownish white, thin, uniform; pi- 
leus white, conical, cottony : stem white, tapering 
upwards, Pee tha me i, BS oat a ae fer 
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