cules guild 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Solid and Loose. 207 
| Rep. ee : 
Ons. In the more common Mushroom, even in its’ button 
state before the rupture of the curtain the gills appear of a pinky 
red soon changing to a darker liver colour, but in this they were 
nearly white even for some time after the tearing of the curtain 
so.as to make me doubtful of its species, but at length they 
changed to the usual colour. This delay was probably occasioned 
by the slow ripening of the seeds so late in the year. te 
Ac. (Botr.) Gulla pals flesh-colour, 8 in a set, but irre-_ la’tus. 
gular: pileus rown mouse, convex, rather bossed : 
stem white, cylindrical. ~ . 
Bull. 382, Gills too highly coloured—Bolt. 2, but the colouring 
in my copy neither agreeing with our specimens, nor yet 
with bis own description, which is sufficiently exact. 
Grits loose, white when young, changing to a pale flesh colour, 
numerous mostly 8 in a set, but the smaller series often 
absent, and often standing nearer to the edge of the 
ileus, than the extent of the large ones. 
Pitevs. ae mouse colour, convex, fleshy, a little bossed, sa- 
tiny, smooth when young, when fully expanded much 
wrinkled about the boss, 2 to 5 inches over. — 
Stem ‘solid white, cylindrical, rather scurfy towards the bottom, 
_ spongy and juicy, 2 to 3 inches high, 3-8ths diameter.” 
Ag. deities Bull. Ag. datus. Bolt. Edgbaston, on turf. Soli- 
tary. : July—Sept. 
Var. 2. Plant when young incloséd in a wrapper. 
Bull. 262. 
The presence of the wrapper or Volva and some variation in 
the tint of the pileus, seem the only circumstances wherein it 
differs from Bull. pl. 382. pl. 330, of the same author seems 
only a dwarf plant of the same kind. : 
_ Ag. volvaceus. Bull. Found by Mr. Relhan in the tan-pit 
in Professor Harwood’s hot house, at Cambridge. 
*Ac. Gills brown red: pileus red buff, whitish at the crustulini- 
edge, convex: stem white, scurfy, for’mis. 
Bull, 308 and 546. 
Grits loose, brown red, 4 ina set. 
_Prieus red buff, edges whitish, scolloped and waved when full 
grown, convex, 2 to 4 inches over. — Flesh white. ; 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, scurfy, 24 inches high, 1-third 
of an inch diameter. BuntiarD. | : 
Ag. crustuliniformis. Bull. On the authority of Dr. Sib- 
thorpe, who found it in a copse_ under Shotover hills, Oxford- 
shire. - : Sept. 
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