CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI: Agaticus.) Solid anil Lease, 
YELLOW. 
Ag. nigripes. Bull. Ag. velutipes, Bolt. In clusters affixed 
_ to rotten wood. Edgbaston, = =, — 15th Noy. 1790. 
*Ac. (BotT.) Gills yellow, numerous, uniform: pileus 
yellow, conical, tufted: stem tapering upwards. 
Bolt. 50.-Soewerby 2, the left hand figures. — 
Grits loose, thin, tender, delicate. ede 
Pitezus a blunt cone, bearing the remains of its wrapper on its 
surface, in form ‘of little, . soft, COTLOD tufts; edge 
waved, scolloped, scored when old; 1 4 inch from the 
edge to the top. pee es 
Stem solid, yellow, tapering upwards, 2 ¢ inches high, 7.dia- 
meter at the ring, whichis permanent. Botton, =~ 
Ag. cepestipes, Sowerby, Amongst the bark in a pine 
stove. “ . Aug. 
Var, 2, Colour of the whole plant a chalky white, 
_. _, Sowerby 2-Bull. S74. _ 
__. The general external appearances have induced Mr. Sowerby 
to consider this as a variety of the Ag. luteus, but though it 
stands here in conformity to his opinion, I think it must be a 
_ distinct plant, and on account of the different colour of the Gills 
T have entered it more fully .in its proper place. See Ag. creta- 
ceus, Pe 219, : 
from ee 
#Ac, (ScH#Fr.) Gills -yellowish, few, uniform: pileus minv‘tulus, 
brown: yellow, scored, © nearly cylindrical ; stem 
whe, > SOB Se EP ee 
Scheff, S08e sig 
 Gttts loose, light brown yellow. i —— 
Piteus bell-shaped, 1-10th of an inch high, scored, brown 
yellow, : ; 
Srem solid; white, or brownish, cylindrical, rather bent, very 
__ slender, $ to linchhigh. . . 
Grows in patches on the ground, but the plants grow ‘singly. 
In that and in its general aspect, it-is extremely like the var. 2. 
of Ag. turbinatus ; and I know that plant has repeatedly been 
referred to Scheff. 308, but it differs in having ‘* Gills white, 
a 
in pairs ; stem solid.” - 
Ag. minutulus. Scheff. ol pe in autumn. Dickson, 
fasc. 1. p. 16. [In Lord Aylesford’s park at Packington. | 
Ac. Gills loose, yellow, 2, 3, or 4 in aset: pileus and auran’tius.. 
stem pinky, 
: Ag. aurantius, Var. 4. See Hottow and Fixep, - 
