CRYPTOGAMIA. ses Agaricus. Solid and Loose. 225 
D. 
G1s loose, brown changing to blackish, few, thick, uniform 
Piteus white changing to dirty brown yellow, globular, from 
the size of a pea to 4 an inch diameter, —~ 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, % to ¢ an inch high; thick as a 
crow or a swallow’s quill. : 
; Ag. lycoperdonoides. Bull. Grows on the pileus and gills of 
other Agarics in a state of decay. Found by Mr. Dickson and 
Dr. Sibthorpe. : ‘ Xe - Oct. 
(3) Gitts red. 
*Ac. (Boxt.) Gillsruby red, 4 in a set: pileus dark red, ru’bens. 
~ gently conical: stem bright red. 
Bull, 202-Bolt. 3€-Fl. daz. 715. 
Gitts loose, thin, transparent; when held between the eye and - 
the light, of a glowing ruby colour, regularly 4 in a set. 
Pirevs gently conical, fine dark red, cottony to the touch, 1 + 
i - inch over: Moers” tases aoe 
Srem solid, strong bright red, hard, seldom straight, 4 to 5 - 
inches high, thick as a goose quill. Bonron. : 
Ag. coccineus. Bulliard, but not Sc r 302, M. Bulliard’s 
name is rejected because previously appropriated by Scopoli to 
- another species. Indeed the same reason exists against Mr. 
Bolton’s name, but that the species which Scopoli has called 
j rubens, is a variety of Ag. muscarius, 
: Ag. rubexs. Bolt. Ag. Kermisinus. Fl, dan. In a wood 
belonging to Shibden Hall, near Halifax, and not elsewhere. — 
< speae: Oct. 
*Ac. Gills reddish brown, irregular ; pileus dead yellow angula’tus, 
brown, widely conical, very glossy: stem darker. : 
Gr1ts loose, reddish brown, angular, irregular, 3 or 4 in a set. 
Piteus dead leaf colour, very glossy and satiny, widely coni- 
cal, sometimes bossed, 1 inch over in the largest speci- 
mens. —- 
. Stem solid; dark brown, inclining to black; 2 inches high, 
thick as a swallow’s quill. rs | 
Found by Mr. Stackhouse at Pendarvis. | Aug. 
As. Gills loose, pinky flesh-colour, 4 in a set: pileus auran’tius, 
pale pink: stem pinky white. 
Ag. aurantius. Var. 3. See Hottow and Fixep. © 
Ac. (Liyn.} Gills pinky, changing to dark liver colour, cam pes’tris, 
_ crowded, irregular : pileus convex, white to brown: j 
stem white, cylindrical : curtain white, a 
Vou. IV, o. 
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