238. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus; Hollow and Fixed, 
WuitE. 
Prreus conical, pointed, brown mouse,)sides wrinkled, 1 toy one 
‘inch from the edge to.the apex of the cone. .. 
Stem hollow, whitish mouse, smooth, feeble and bending before 
the decay of the pileus; 2 to 3 inches high, not half the 
thickness of a crow quill. Root much thicker than the 
stem, bent horizontally and sometimes turning upwards. 
Stumps of a filbert hedge, Edgbaston. 17th Oct. 1790. 
-: Vari 7. Gills white, in pairs: pileus dark brown: stem 
grey. 
Bull 518. C. 
Gits fixed, white, alternately long and short, about 20 of each 
sort. : 2 
Piieus brown to chocolate colour, conical, blunt, border bent in 
‘and wrinkled, { of an inch from the edge to the point. 
Sram hollow, silvery grey, often crooked, + to 1 inch high, not 
much thicker than a large pin. 
, This is sometimes found not much above a fourth part as 
arge. : * 
Ag. fistulosut, Bull. Not uncommon in hedge banks. 
' . 22d Oct. 
*Var. 8. Gills white, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus, upper parts 
black, lower parts white: stem black below, white upwards. 
- Bolt, 137. 
Giuts narrow, long ones attached to the stem by a pointed claw. 
Pitzus oblong-egg-shaped, changing to bell-shaped ; 4 of an inch 
high; white at the edge only when young, but as it 
grows, the white extends up to its middle. 
Stem dusky approaching to black, but when full grown the top 
is white. Near 3 inches high; thick as a raven quill. 
Botton. 
Ag. atro-albus. Bolt. 
compres’sus AG. Gills white, fleshy, few, 2 to 8 in a sct: pileus 
brown, irregular: stem white, compressed. 
Gruts fixed, white, fleshy, broad, wide apart, very irregular, 2 
to 8 in a set, but most frequently 4; often forked at the 
outer end. : ; 
Prievs brown, centre generally darkest, very thin, bluntly co- 
nical, but very irregular in shape, more or less transpa- 
rent, when full grown the skin cracks and forms little 
_, . Seales; from 1 to 2: inchesover. 
Stem hollow, containing more or less of a loose pith, white, 
brownish at the bottom, compressed, rarely straight, 
often irregularly crooked and twisted, sometimes so com- 
ptessed as to appear double, splitting, 4 to } an inch dia- 
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