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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Fixed. Brown. : 
Srrm watery brown, with a small hollow, 1} inch high, thinner 
than a crow quill. 
Edgbaston, by the little Pool dam. 24th August, 
-Jacrima'lis. Ac. (Batscn.) Gills deep red brown, not numerous, 4 
in a set: pileus ochrey brown, scored, dimpled : 
stem red brown. . 
Basch. &. ‘ 
GILLs fixed, deep red brown, semi-transparent, not crowded, 4 
in a set. : 
Pixevs ochrey brown, scored at the sides, dimpled in the centre, 
edge mostly turned down, to 1 inch over. 
Stem hollow, reddish brown, generally crooked, 1} to 2 
inches high, hardly so thick as a crow or a goose quill. 
Ag. lacrimalis. Batsch, Hedge banks, Edgbaston old road. 
Packington Park. 27th Nov. 
With us it grows to more than twice the size mentioned and 
figured by Batsch ; the gills are sometimes dark brown, and the 
flesh whire. 
Var. 2. Pileus conical: gills hanging below the edge of 
the pileus, : . : 
Batsch. 7. 
Ag. lacrimalis, Grass plats. July. 
_- Var. 3. Stem shorter, thick as a goose quill: juice of the 
gills like watery milk. Mr. Srackuouse. 
Probably a distinct species, 
_ cireumsep’-Ac. (Barscu.) Gills reddish brown, 4 in a set : pileus 
tus. 
whitish brown, scurfy, convex, dimpled: stem 
whitish brown, tumed up at the base. 
Batsch. 98. 
Gis fixed, reddish brown, 4 in aset, but the short ones very 
imperfect from the edge of the pileus rolling in. 
Piteus gently convex, whitish brown, scurfy, dimpled, edge at 
first much bent inwards, but with age tearing and turn- 
ing up. 
_ Stem hollow, cavity very fine; whitish brown, darker with 
age, cylindrical, 2 to 2¢ inches high, thick as a raven 
quill. Root, the end of the stem thickened and a little 
turned up. Sh % ‘ 
Fig. of Batsch. too small, but he mentions in his description, 
which ts very good, that the plant is sometimes much larger- 
Ag. circumseptus, Batsch. Edgbaston in pasture lands. - : 
Lith Oct. 1790 
