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204 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus: Solid and Loose, 
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- eanalicula’ Ac. Gills nearly uniform, blackish brown : pileus cylin- 
tus. drical, channeled, mouse coloured, reddish at top: 
stem white. eS 
Gi11s loose, dirty blackish brown, not all of a length, but 
without any short ones. 
Piteus mouse colour, smooth, reddish at the top, cylindrical, 
blunt, channeled, 3-Sths of an inch high, not quite so _ 
‘much in diameter. : 
Srem solid, white, tender and pulpy, 2 of an inch high, thick 
as a swallow’s quill. . 
Drawing and description from Mr. Stackhouse, who attend- 
ed the progress of the growth in two of these plants, which 
sprang up in a pot containing an orange tree, in the window of 
a parlour in Bath. as: June, 1792. 
I have since met with the same plant, growing in the soil in 
an unfinished house in Birmingham, _A parlour floor had been 
loosely laid with oak planks the preceding year, and on taking 
them up this plant made its appearance. July. 
glandi’ca- Ac. Gills pale yellowish brown, 4 ina set: pileus dirty 
lyx. mealy white on a pale ground, spreading, peaked: ~ 
stem pale yellowish brown. 
Gis loose, pale yellowish brown, 4 in a set. 
Piteus widely conical, pointed, dirty mealy white on a pale 
. brown yellow ground, with a peak in the centre, about ¢ 
of an inch high, much resembling the cup of an acorn. 
Stem solid, cylindrical, pale yellowish brown, seldom straight, 
z to | inch high, thick as a swallow’s quill. 
Plantations at Edgbaston, on the ground, 
4 
. brown: stem brown, crooked. 
Giits fixed to a fleshy ring in the pileus, and close adjoining, 
but not united to the stem; pale brown or buify, not 
thick set, strong and rather tough; in pairs or in fours. 
» Prreus pale brown, convex, flatted, edge turned in, thin; from 
the size of a pin’s head to 1-Sth of an inch over. 
Srem solid, brown, very much crooked, + to of an inch high, 
sometimes rather scurfy, thick as a small needle, tough, 
eor'neus. Ac. Gills pale buffy brown, 2 or 4 ina set: pileus pale 
horny when dry. 
On the stump of a fir tree which had been fallen, in the Red 
Rock Plantation, Edgbaston, 11 Aug. 1793- 
lycoperdo- *Ac. Gills blackish brown: pileus dirty white; globular: 
noi‘des. | stem white, short. 
; | Bull. 166, 
