; CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGL Agaricus: Holloidnt Fixed, 
WHITE, 
Var. 3. Gills white, 4ih'a set, connected by: threads to the 
pileus: stem ending in a pear-shaped bulb. 
Gis fixed, white, moderately numerous, connected by white 
ligaments to the pileus, 4 in a set, but the smaller series 
very irregular in size. 
PILeus brown, conical, but a ye ee Nie streaked, + 
= te TS inch over. = 
as a crow quill, seling eaddenly at the bottom i into a 
sal diped sarpen ie = 
Ag. filopes. Butt. 320, the right hand figure would give a 
pest tes of this plant if the stem were not so tall and slender, 
the gills not loose, and the root not hairy. 
Edgbaston Park. 13th Nov. 1790. 
Var. 4, Gills white, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus brownish white, 
mottled with purple dots: stem white. 
Bull. 518. E. expresses a mottled wariely, but it is Heit and 
more coloured than our specimens. — 
GILLs fixed to the stem by a smal] claw, white, not numerous, 4 
in a set, but the smaller series often wanting. 
Pitzus brownish white, mottled with purplish dots and igs, 
conical, cracking at top when full grown, + inch’ from 
the edge to the point of the cone. Flesh white. 
Stem hollow, white, glossy, splitting, often crooked, 1 to 14 
inch high, thinner than a crow quill. 
At the bottom of posts and pales. 25th Nov. 
Var. 5. Gills white, with purple blotches, 2 or 4 in a set: 
pileus whitish, with purplish brown blotches: stem brown; 
Gitts fixed, of a dirty white with purple blotches; not nume- 
rous, 2 or 4 in a set. 
~ Prugus whitish, irregularly blotched with patella brown, co- 
nical, scored, wrinkled at the border, not fleshy, 3 inch 
from the edge tothe point of the cone. 
Stem hollow, brown, darkest at the bottom, shining, splitting, 
crooked, 2 to 3 inches high, thinner than a crow quill. 
This singular and beautiful variety has not been figured, It 
is not common with us. 
On a hedge bank in the old road, Edgbaston. 
27th Nov. 1791. 
Var. 6. Gills white, in pairs, long ones splitting; pileus 
conical, peaked, brown mouse: stem mes mouse; — Toot 
thick, crooked.  - 
Guts fixed, white, in pairs, long ones often splitting at ths outer 
: _ end, or the short. gill connected with the long ene. 
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