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246 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and — 
: Fixed. Brown. x 
-Girts fixed, rich chocolate colour, numerous, mottled, 4 or § in 
- a set. t 
Pixzus pale yellow brown, convex, bossed, 11 to 2 inches from 
| the edge to the apex; smooth, fibrous. Flesh thin, 
yellow white. | : 
oe Stem hollow, pale brown, scurfy, gently tapering upwards, 
bulbous at the base, splitting ; from 4 to 6 inches high, 
3-10ths to + inch diameter. : 
Curtain fugacious, but leaving a stain on the stem, and 
fringing the edge of the pileus. 
 Inclusters amongst grass, at Edgebaston. ; Sept. 
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fusco-fla’- Ac, Gills dark cinnamon, 4.in a set: pileus brown yel- 
vus, low, convex, bossed, edge turned down: stem 
\ brown yellow, splitting. 
oi = Schaff. 4. 
Gitts fixed, full cinnamon, broad but not very numerous, 4 ina 
set, regular, 
Prievs convex, brown yellow, satiny, a small pointed boss in 
the centre, edge dipping down, 13 to 2inchesover. ~ 
Stem hollow, brownish yellow, white below, satiny, cylindri- 
cal, compressed, splitting, 2 to 4 inches high, } inch 
diameter, or more, 
. Sometimes the pileus is dimpled and scurfy, and the long 
: gills are much broader than the others. These differences seem 
chiefly to take place when the plants attain a larger size, viz. 
the stem from 3 to 5 inches <a and the pileus 3 or 4 inches 
over, : 
Scheffer’s name cannot properly be retained, but our plant 
exactly corresponds with his figure, which has repeatedly been 
considered as the Ag. cinnamomeus of Linnzus. Mr. Bolton 
seems to be the first who has discovered that plant in this king- | 
dom, and has figured it extremely well in his appendix. 
Ag. croceus, Scheff. Pastures, Edgbaston. 17th Oct. 1790+ 
Var. 2. Pileus regularly convex ; stem short, thin, with a 
slendér hollow, ; ' 
Grits fixed, ochrey brown, 4 in a set, moderately numerous. 
Prieus regularly convex, pale buff, darker in the centre, 17 to 
2 inches over, rae 
Stem hollow, brownish, cylindrical, splitting, 14 inch high, 
~» thick as acrow quill; the hollow v . 
On a flower bed in the garden, Edgbaston, 23d Aug. 17 924 
vulpinus, AG, Gills red chesnut, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus chesnut, 
=< small, flattish, dimpled : stem fox-colour. 
ge Giuts fixed, chesnut-colour, firm, 4 in a set; long ones about 
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