CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow ‘and 239: 
Fized. WHITE. 
meter, 2 to 3 inches high. The whole plant very brittle 
and watery. In a great quantity of specimens I did 
not find a single one that had not a compressed stem. Is’ 
not this another variety of the sportive Ag. aurantius? 
In patches on the rising ground opposite the Stews, Edg- 
baston. f 2 : -- 28th June, 1792. 
Ag. Gills watery brownish white, 4 or 8 in a set, shining argen’teus, 
at the edges: pileus pale watery brown, convex but 
flatted :*stem white. © 9 © = 
Gixts fixed, watery brownish white, 4 or 8 ina set, the small 
‘ones irregular and uncertain, the long ones sometimes 
‘splitting, all of them shining, silvery white at the edges. 
Piievs pale watery brown, convex and bossed when young, 
afterwards flat. topped and the centre depressed, centre 
darker, surface mealy, streaked at the sides when young, 
é wrinkled and plaited when old; 1 to 2+ inches over. 
Stem hollow, silvery white, cylindrical, but thicker downwards, 
bending, tender, splitting, 2to 4 inches high, thick as a 
goose or a swan’s quill, pee See ee 
Packington Park in clusters: under elm trees in Edgbaston 
Park. 10th April 1792.—Aug. 
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Ag. (Batscu.) Gills brownish white, few, in pairs: pi- auri‘comus. 
leus golden brown, convex, bossed: stem brown, 
thick at the top. 
Batsch. 21. 
Guts fixed, brownish white, not numerous, in pairs, but some- 
times.a little gill intervening. _ Ser 
Pixeus rich brown, gently convex, bossed, slightly scored, 3 an 
inch over. Flesh white, 
Stem hollow, pale brown, thicker and flattened at the top, firm, 
smooth, 14 to 2 inches high, thick as a crow quill. 
Ag. auricomus. Batsch. Roots of filbert trees, Edgbaston. 
24th Nov. 179. 
Ac. (Scuzrr.) Gills white, numerous, uniform: pileus plum’beus. 
light brown with some bluish lilac tints, convex, 
border streaked : stem white ; ring permanent.. 
Fl. daz. 1014-Scheff. 85. 86, (but the hollow stem not well 
expressed, though particularly mentioned in the descrip- 
tion. )—Battar. 0. B—Mich, 78. 2-F. B. iii. 826, fig. ta 
the left hand, good.—Sterb. 20, K. 21. B.—Buxb. 48. 1, 
wery bad, — : 
