254 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and. 
Fiaed.. Rep. 
_ Ag. incarnatus. Renan. suppl. ii. n. 1092,. Ag. rosens, 
Bull. Plantations, Edgbaston. . Nov. 1790. 
> Var. 2, Gills fleshy : pileus brown buff inclining to rose, 
boss darker, smooth, sides ribbed: stem pale rose or yellowish, 
white at the top. — : 
Ag. rubellus. Scheff. Bottom of stumps. Nov.’ 
_ Var. 3. Gills pale pink changing to grey: stem flattened, 
silvery white: root long, taper, brown, wey: 
The stem is hollow, but when old the hollow is filled with a 
beautiful white pith like floss silk. Pileus watery brown. 
Packington ark, Warwickshire. : 
rubecun’dus Ac. Gills pale red, mostly 4 ina set: pileus brick red: 
stem brown red; root a knob. 
; Gi115 fixed, pale red, not numerous, generally 4 in a set, but the 
x short gills often wanting. 
Pireus pinky red, or brick dust colour, sometimes powdered 
over with white; conical, flatted at top; 1 to 2 inches 
over. 
Stem hollow, brownish red, crooked, thick as a goose quill, _ 
Root rather bulbous. 
Easton. 4th Sept. 1792. 
erugino’sus Ag, (Curtis.) Gills lilac, 4 or 8 in a set: pileus blue, 
changing to brown yellow, convex, bossed: stem 
bluish. ‘= ; . 
Curt, 309, excellent, (but not Hudson's viridis awhich has 
white gills, nor yet Micheli 152, albi et virides, 2, which 
bas a white stem also.)-Scheff. \—Bolt. 143, @ very 
large specimen. Saal x 
Gixts fixed, numerous, rich lilac colour, 4 in a set in the small, 
8 in the large plants. PSS 
Pireus convex, bossed, blue, slimy, 1 to 3 inches over; border 
turning up when old. é 
_ Srem hollow, bluish, white at the top, nearly cylindrical, 14 to 
27 inches long ; lower part covered with a thin bluish 
green skin. Curtain white, delicate, fringing with its 
fragments the border of the pileus, and forming a ring 
on the stem, but not a very permanent one.* Root 
conical, thicker than the stem, growing to rotten wood. — 
The blue colour of the pileus seems resident in the. slimy 
* In the Autumn of 1788 in several hundred specimens, 1 never 
found one that had a ring on the stem, but the following year, almost 
every one which occurred had this distinguishing mark. Major Vztiey- 
Farther plantations, and by the side‘of a gravel walk, Edg- 
a 
