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virida’rius. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
. Fixed, Rep. is 
Stem hollow, with more or less pith, white, cylindrical, smooth, 
34 inches high, thick as a crow or raven quill. 
The stem is much taller in proportion to the size of the pi- 
leus than in the preceding. 2 
In clusters on rotten wood. . Oct.—April. 
* Var. 3. Gills 4 in a set: pileus nearly white, hemispheri- 
cal, transparent: stem white. 
Bolt, 11. 
‘Gis fixed, white, with a faint reddish brown tinge, black in 
decay ; thin, flexible, broad, distant, 4 ina set. 
Pitevs white, hemispherical, never turning up, sometimes waved 
at the edge, membranaceous, thin, 1} to 2 inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, readily splitting, 2 or 3 inches high, thick 
as a swan’s quill. Borron.—Entirely without flesh. 
Mr. Woopwarp. - = 
Ag. membranaceus. Bolt. Shady woods on the decayin 
roots of fallen oak trees. [Not uncommon. Mr. Woopwaro. 
Ac. Gills pale brown, 4 in a set, few: pileus rich buff, 
convex : stem pale buff, cylindrical. | 
Scheff. 226. 
G15 fixed, pale brown, 4 ina set, long ones not more than 16. 
_ Pizews rich buff, regularly convex, smooth, 2 inch over. Flesh 
¢innamo’~ 
‘Meus. 
- yellowish. 
Stem hollow, the cavity pretty much filled with a white pith; 
pale buff, cylindrical, smooth, 1 inch long, thinner than 
a crow quill. Root a knob, 
Has none of the powdery matter on the pileus mentioned by 
Scheffer, but that is probably a very transitory ap: ee 
The: hollow in the stem is uniformly filled with a white pith, 
the surrounding flesh having a yellow cast. This pith does not 
appear in Schzeffer’s figure, therefore I suppose it is not always 
found so fully to occupy the hollow. 
Ag: pulverulentus, Scheff. Grass plats, but not very com- 
mon, August. 
(3) Gris red, 
Ac, (Linn.) Gills deep tawny red, broad about the mid- 
dle, 4 in a set: pileus rich cinnamon, convex, 
somewhat bossed : stem yellow. 
Bolt, 150. (not Scheff. t. 4.) 
Gills tawny red. ileus convex, but flatted, often with 4 
central rise ; colour of leather, or of a chesnut. Stem yellow- 
ish, naked, long. It is readily distinguished by its cinnamon 
colour. Livy —Not Haller. 2.2439, nor Ray Syn. 5. . 2%» 
nor Huds. 615. n, 19,— Gills a glowing reddish yellow. Pileus 
