-CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI: “Agaricus: “Hollow and 
ea Fixed. Brown. | 
There is some doubt whether we are right in considering 
this species as the same with the c/ypeatus of Linnzus. He 
says the gills are white, but then the circumstance of their 
being dusted with a dark-coloured powder may give” them 
the colour we have described: He refers to Haller exum. 41. 
35, where Haller describes them as very white ; in every other 
respect his description applies exactly to our plant, and he re. 
fers at 2388 of his Hist. Helv. to the same figures which we 
have found to-correspond with ours.—This in many respects fe- 
sembles the Ag. varius, but the elastic firm and wiry stem of 
that, is very different from the tender texture of this. Mr. 
STACKHOUSE.  “ : 
Ag. hee Scheff. Ag. elypeatus. Bolt. Planta. 
tions in Edgbaston Park. 5th Sepe. 
Var. 2. Gills darker brown : pileus powdery. 
Pileus white and powdery, but the powder easily falling off, 
shews a reddish brown ground. 
This is larger than the preceding, the diameter of the pileus 
being sometimes. more than 2 inches, the stem 6 inches long, 
and as thick asa goose quill. se i 
Packington Park, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ac. (Butt.) Gills dark brown to black, 4 or 8 in a set: fimi- 
pileus pale brown, conical, blunt, apex polished : 
stem white. 
Bull. 66. (very exact, but the stem more coloured than ours.) 
Grits fixed, dark brown changing to black and liquefying ; nu- 
merous, mostly 4, but in the full expansion of the larger 
plants, 5 in a set. ae Seem x 
Pitzus pale dead brown, conical, blunt, apex more or less 
smooth and polished, sides a little streaked, thin, semi- 
transparent, 1 to 2 inches from the edge to the top of 
the cone and as much in diameter at the base, forming 
-an equilateral triangle. 
Strm_ hollow, silvery whitey splitting, cylindrical, 2 to 5 
inches high, thick as a raven’s quill. ‘Top of the pileus 
sometimes slightly tinged of a chesnut colour, 
Ag. fimiputris. Bull. In gardens. Oct. 
Var. 2. Gills 4in aset : pileus grey to black. » 
Bolt. 66. 1. ‘ a 
In all other respects similar to the above, but not more than 
f the size. 
Amongst rotten oak leaves on grass land. wae? * 
_ Var. 3. Gills chocolate brown to black, mottled, in pairs ; 
tag mouse-colour, conical, pointed: stem mouse, cylindrical, 
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