216. CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Solid and Loose. 
Waite. 
Ag. alumnus, Bolt. Ag. tuberosus. Bull. -On old plants of 
Ag. integer and other species of Fungi, but rare. 
splen’dens, Ac. Gills pure white, numerous, 2 or4 ina set : pileus 
like tarnished copper, glossy, bluntly conical : 
stem brownish white, tapering upwards. 
Gitts loose, very white, very numerous, thin, and tender, throw- 
ing out an abundance of dust-coloured seeds from the 
edges, and then changing to a pinky white. 
Pixevs colour of tarnished copper, with a metallic lustre, beau- 
tifully glossy, scarcely viscid, apparently streaked, or 
fibrous like smoothly combed hair, smooth to the touch, 
bluntly conical, edge parallel to. the stem, from 3 to 7 
inches over. Flesh very white, tender and spongy, crack- 
ing when fully expanded. - 
Stem solid, white, with longitudinal pale brown rising lines, 
regularly tapering upwards, 4 to 6 inches high, near an 
inch diameter at bottom and half as much at top. Flesh 
tender, juicy, spongy. . 
This must be a very rare species, as its size and the metallic 
lendour of its pileus cannot fail to attract the eye, and yet 
there does ot appent 40 Desig. f Te of it, — 
On a rotten alder stump. by he side of the pool in Edgbas- 
ton Park, Also close to the bottom of an oak stump, at a dis- 
tance from water, 2 26th July, 1792. 
radica’tus, * Ac. (Retu.) Gills white, few, 4 in aset; pileus brown- 
ish, bluntly conical: stem brown, tapering up- 
wards; root verylong, — 
Bull, 232 and 515, 
Gruxs loose, white, few, distant, 4 in a set. _ ie 
Piteus brownish, or dirty white, rather bell-shaped, not fleshy, 
almost pellucid, edge rather bent in, but with age turn- 
ing up, 3 to.4 inches over, or more. 
Stem solid, rather woody, 4 to 6 inches high, thick as a goose 
quill, gradually thickening from the pileus down to the 
ground, then penetrating the earth in form of a long 
Foot tapering downwards, RELHan w, 1040, Stem CO- 
vered witha thick down, of a reddish brown colour; 5 
or 6 inches high, gradually increasing in thickness to 
the — and then tapering to a spindle-shaped root 
ic tes deep into the earth. 1 raised it to more 
than the length of the stem above ground without ob- 
rig the whole gc 8 Pileus about ‘4 inches Ahi 
brown or dirt ite, almost transparent, 
Pactorcy without flesh 3 the edge vith bent in. Gill 
few, white, broad, + in a set, none of them reaching 
» the stem, Upon comparing the description of Mr 
