232 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Hollow and De- 
3 current.. RED. | : < 
(2) Grits red. . 
farina’ceus. Ac. (Huns.) Gills dilute pink, edges scolloped, 4 ina 
set: pileus pinky brown, bossed: stem very pale 
pinky brown, thick at the top. 
Ss Scheff. 13-Batsch. 100. 
Gis a little decurrent in the young and smaller plants, greatly 
. 0 in the older and larger ones, few, thick, very dilute | 
pink, or as if powdered with dull white upon a pink 
ground, scolloped at the edge, regularly 4 in a set. 
Prievs pale pinky brown, deeper coloured and bossed in the 
centre ; # to 1 inch over. | 
Stem hollow, very pale brown, with a pinky tinge, shining, 
thickest at the top, 4 inches high, size of a crow quill. 
This plant is always distinguishable by the small number of 
Gills, which are 5 oS with a mealy powder, Stem slen- 
der, 3 or 4 inches high, Pi/eus 1 to 2 inches over, varying in 
colour, but usually more or less purple, often very irregular in 
shape, and occasioning waves in the gills. Common, Mr. 
Woopwarp. ; 
The whole plant sometimes mealy. Dr. Sibthorpe has re- 
ferred Ray Syn, p. 5. n, 23, to this species, but Dillenius’s de- 
scription is that of a much r plant. 
Ag. subcarneus, Batsch. Ag, laccatus. Scheff. In the grass 
under pine trees at Bath, in abundance. On Comb Down. 
Major Veter. = 
_ War. 2, Gills in pairs: stem thickest at the bottom when 
young. citer cqug 
Grits, about 20 long ones. -“ 
Prievs } to 4 of an inch over, convex, turning up with age. 
Stem thickest downwards in the yeung, thickest upwards in the 
old plants, 13 to 2 inches high. ‘The whole plant inside 
and outside of a pinky red. 
Plantations at Tettenhall, Staffordshire. July. 
tubeola’- Ag. Gills pale pink, deep red at the edge: pileus pale. 
rius. pink, cylindro-conical: stem pink. | 
_Giuts decurrent, pale pink with deep red edges ; broad. 
Pirevs pale watry pink, cylindrical but rounded at the top, 
1-10th of an inch high, 
Stem Ss pink, weak, 1 inch high, not thicker than’a strong 
: ristle, » Yad i 
On rotten sticks in the park at Packington. # 
irregula’ris, Ac. (Botr.) Gills pale rose, broad, tough; wide asunder 
4 in a set: pileus pale brown, bessed, irregular, 
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