CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
' Fixed. . Rep. ~ 
Piteus buff in the centre, paler towards the edge, rather coni. 
cal, edge turned in, smooth, clammy, 2 inches over. 
Flesh yellow white. 
Stem hollow, whitish, scurfy, and brown below, cylindrical, 
crooked, 2 to 3 inches high, thick as asmall goose quill. 
Curtain white, tender, not leaving a ring. “ 
Grows in clusters, with a large root extending horizontally, 
and fixed to fragments of rotten wood. 2 He 
Ag. melleus. Scheff. Edgbaston plantations. 2ist Aug. 
* Var. 2. Piles chesnut colour, 
Bolt. 10. Fe 
I venture to place this here, but wish the author had been 
more explicit either in his figure or in his description. 
Ag. castaneus. Bolt. 
Var. 3. Pileus darker coloured and depressed in the centre: 
stem light buff, crooked, varying from the thickness of a goose 
quill to that ef a swallow. ee 
On rotten wood about Packington, Warwickshire. 
Ac. Gills pinky pale brown, 8 in a set: pileus pale 
brown, convex, bossed: stem white, cylindrical, 
smooth, ; 
Bull. 518. f. F. ~ 
Gus fixed, pinky white when young, changing when expanded 
to a brownish flesh colour, thin, numerous. 
Pi.eus conical when young, nearly flat when old, always bossed, 
slightly scored, uneven at the edge, very thin and semi- 
_ transparent, the pale dead brown when rubbed getting a 
pinky cast: from 1 to 3} imches over, — 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, smooth, splitting, from 12 to 
4 inches high, from 1,8th to 3-8ths diameter. Nei. 
' ther curtain nor ring. . 
: ‘Growing in clusters, and like most of the clustered Aga. 
“Yics, varying very much in size. : 
Ag. fistulosus. Bull. Edgbaston Milking-bank. 
: : July—Sept. 
Var. 2. Gills pinky brown, 4 or 8 in a set: pileus very 
pale buff, nearly flat; stem with a little loose pith in 
the hollow. ae 
Batsch. 111, (but the pileus in our plants paler and flatter.) 
ma’cer. 
Guts fixed, fleshy brown colour, with a purplish tinge at the 
edges when shedding the seed, 4 or Sinaset. 
Piizvs nearly flat, with a gently raised boss, buffy white at 
the border, more buffy in the centre ; a little Bette | 
and wrinkled at the edge, 1 to 13 inch over. Fles 
very thin, white, — ; a 
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