200 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI: Agaricus. Solid and Loose. 
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pulvina'tus. *Ac. (Bot.) Gills greyish white, 4 ina set: pileus con- 
-vex, brown mouse: stem dark grey, tapering up- 
wards: wrapper permanent. 
Bolt. 49; (but none of his synonyms.) 
Gi1xs loose, the 2 smaller series lopped. 
Prirvs when fully expanded flatted at the top like a cushion; 
_ edge strongly scored: 3 or 4 inches over. - Flesh white, 
'. spongy. 
STEM id, dark grey, nearly cylindrical but thicker at the 
bottom, which is inclosed in a permanent wrapper; 3 
to 4 inches high, near } an inch diameter. Boiron. 
The colour.of the gills not mentioned in the descrip- 
tion, but if grey white as represented in the figure, it 
cannot be the same plant as Mr. Bulliard’s Ag. volva- 
ceus, pl. 262, which has white gills when youngs- 
_ changing to salmon colour when in maturity. 
Ag. —- Bolt. Woods and moist shady places about 
ifax, but rare. <a Sept. 
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horizonta'lis*Ac. (Buxu.) Gills yellowish white, 4 in a sect: pileus 
_ yellowish brown, convex, not fully circular: stem 
nt horizontally. 
Bull, 324. 
Gu11s loose, contiguous to the stem but not fixed to it, yellow- 
ish white, few, rounded at the edge, 4 in a set, the 
: smaller series very minute. : 
Psteus convex, yellowish brown, almost semi-orbicular, smooth, 
shining, 1 inch broad. : : hs 
Srem solid, little more than 4 an inch long, central, but imme- 
diately bent so as to be parallel to. the pileus, and in-- 
serted into the crevices of the bark on which it grows 
in thickness equal to a swallow’s quill, I have fre- 
uently been deceived in gathering this plant, the stem 
m its mode of growth, not being easily seen, 1 have 
pe it to be a dimidiated: Agaric until it was pulled. 
t. Woopwarp. 
_ Ag. borizontalis. Bull. On old trees at Mettingham, and 
elsewhere, near Bungay. Mr. Woopwaro. 
ela’vus. Ac. (Linn.) Gills white, in pairs: pileus with a dimple 
: Jn the centre: stem very long and slender = 
_ verylong. _ aa 
Scheff. 59. very good, but rather large.—Bull. 148, B, C. 
DAs is another species Vaill, xi. 19. 19. 20--Balt. 
89. Be tA see 25: 
Gizts loose, in pairs, white, about 20 of each sort. 
