CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 243, 
sey Fixed. Brown, ~ 
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Var. 2. Gills regularly in pairs: stem white above, mouse 
below ; 2 inches high. 
Edgbaston plantations. ie Oct. 
Ag. Gills light brown, broad: pileus dark red brown, pyramida’=. 
conical ; stem white. tus. 
Scheff. 229, bes \ 
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Guts fixed, light brown, 4 in aset. 
Pirevs dark i brown, conical, the edge expanding, wrinkled, 
= 1 inch from the base to the apex. Fi/esh thin, light 
wh. a 4 3 i 
Stem hollow, whitish, 1} inch high, thick asa raven’s quill. : 
_ Ag. pyramidatus. Scheff. In Lord Aylesford’s park at 
Packington. 
Ac, Gills pale brown, 4 in a set: pileus pale reddish fibro’sus. 
brown, conical, smooth : stem white, splitting. 
Grits fixed, pale brown, 4 in a set, regular, rather numerous. 
- Pineus pale reddish brown, smooth, conical, more red at the 
apex, + to 1 inch high. = ae io Ses 
Stem with a large hollow, white, rather tapering upwards, 
thick as a goose quill, 3 to 4 inches high, splitting into 
4, 5, or mose fibrous shreds, compressed towards the bot- 
tom, sometimes crooked. ; 
Perhaps only a var. of the preceding. Differs from the Ag. 
arundinaceus of Bulliard in thewhite stem and the regular shaped 
smooth and unstreaked pileus, as does also his plant from the 
Ag. collinus of Scheffer. : - 
Grows in clusters. Edgbaston Park. Sept. 
Ag. Gills pale brown, 4 in aset, but some in pairs and octogo’nus. 
much broader: pileus brown, convex octagonal. 
Gitts fixed, 4 ina set, but irregular, pale watery brown, whiteat 
~~ the edges. Besides the above, there are 8 pair of large gills, 
| thrice as broad as the common large ones, whose edges — 
: approach and seem united in pairs, but as their attach- 
“ment to the pileus is at some distance from each other, 
and the lower edges incline so as to come in contact, if 
not to grow to each other, there is necessarily a consi- 
derable cavity included between them. This cavity is 
sometimes empty, but sometimes incloses a gill of the 
common size. The external appearance of these pairs of 
large gills is not unlike a large seed of an orange. 
Pitzus pale watery brown, convex, 5-Sths of an inch over, the 
edge formed into as many projecting angles as there are 
pairs of the large gills described above. : 
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