+ TE t0 8 inches high, Borrox. 
7 Waite. 
» Bolt. 18-( Not. Bull. Ag.-digitaliformis, for that bas a hol- 
low stem.) 
Gitis loose, uniform, numerous, thin and delicate, white, with 
: a faint tinge of pale brown. 
Piteus conical, pointed, white, yellowish brown at the apex, 
smooth, light, cottony ; withers in decay, from {to i 
_ ;.inch in diameter at bottom, and as much in height. 
Stem solid, white, gently tapering upwards, 2 inches high, 
thick as a swallow’s quill, Curtain white, very evanes- 
.... cent, BoLton. - 
- Ag. confertus, Bolt. Amongst bark in hot-houses. | 
Noy. 1785. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Loose. 
Ac..Gills white, pileus white, convex or widely conical, 
tufted: stem white, club-shaped downwards. 
Sowerby 2, right hand and lower figures-Bull. 374. 
Gits loose and distant from the stem, white, 4 in a set. 
Piteus chalky white, tufted with cottony hairs, 3 to 4 inches over. 
Srem white, pithy, club-shaped, 3 to 4 inches high, 2 inch dia- 
meter upwards, near inch below. Rizg permanent. ~ 
‘Ag. cepestipes. Sowerby, see Ag. luteus ; but it seems much 
more closely allied to the Ag. confertus of Bolton, and I think 
they will prove to be the same species. 
On the bark beds of hot houses. 
* Ac. (Botr.) Gills white, numerous, 4 ina set: pileus 
white, bluntly conical, brown at the top; stem 
‘white, tapering upwards. ee 
Bolt. 153-( Scheff. 256, 2 a variety with gills in pairs and 
pileus flat at the top.) es 
Grits loose, thin, pliable. ; . 
Pinus smooth like vellum, milk white, 14 inch to the apex of 
the cone. Flesh white, thin. 
‘Srzn solid, pure white within and without, largest at the bottom, 
decreasing ually upwards, splits into fibres ; 5 inches 
hig 2 inch diameter atthe bottom, + at the top. Bott. 
Ag. albus. Scheff. and Bolt, Sheep croft at Stannary near 
, and elsewhere in sheep pastuies. Aug. 
' -* Var. 2. Gills few : pileus wholly white. 
: : 2 ‘Bull. 256-Bolt. 155. 
Gixxs loose, white, soft, few,4inaset. : 
*iLgus convex, or father bluntly conical, white, thin, 2 to 1 
Stem solid, white, thick as a crow quill, ‘but much thicker 
_ downwards, where it is sometimes tinged with red ; 
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