CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Hollow and 
Fixed, YELLOW. oe 
Scheff. 301—Battar. 21. E. 
Gi115 fixed slightly to the stem, full bright yellow, 4 in a set; 
. long gills about 21; edge scolloped, but without any par. - 
ticular pointed tooth at the base. * 
Pitevs bluntly conical, rich buff, border when young beautifully 
: green, viscid, paler with age and the edge turning up, % 
of aninch over. — age 
Stem hollow, beautifully green, smooth, slimy, tender, split- 
ting, 1 inch high, thick as a crow quill. When old the 
green on the upper part remains, whilst the lower be. 
comes yellow. he pa 
The whole plant viscid and slimy. The green colour here 
seems, as in the Ag. erugizosus, to be contained in the slimy 
coating, which being laid on a golden ground acquires such an 
unusual brilliancy. It wears or washes from the central and 
projectiog part of the pileus and then shews the yellow ground, 
ut it remains longest on bs 3 eh of the stem, because 
there protected by the shelter the pileus affords. 
Ag. psittacinus, Scheff. Pool dam, and the Red Rock 
plantation in Edgbaston Park. eo * Ang. Sept. 
Var. 2. Pileus ruby red, centre yellowish: stem ruby red, 
- yellowish at the base. 
Scheff. 302. (excellent.) 
Guts fixed, yellow, fleshy, 4 in a set. 
Prreus convex, flatted, bright raby red, but the centre more 
tawny and with age the yellow cast spreads towards the 
edge; lj inchover. Flesh yellow ortawny. 
Stem the hollow very fine, but soon enlarging by the shrink. 
‘ing of the spongy flesh, red above, tawny or yellow 
below, splitting, nearly cylindrical, 14 inch high, thick 
>. as a large swan’s quill, é 
* Scheffer, and after him, our English authors, have supposed this to 
be the Ag. dentatus of Linnzeus, but it can hardly be so, as he points out 
the following particulars in his plant which do not exist in ours :— 
** Gills with a tooth at the base, separating from the stem; their edges 
“ broad, sub-villose or mealy, Pileus convex, border bent in. Stem 
_. “ scored towards the top; growing in clusters.’’— My opinion is well 
Supported by the following remarks of Major Velley :—*‘ Schceffer is of 
_ Opinion that his Ag. psittacinus and Ag. coccineus. t. 301—and 302, are 
h described by Linnzeus under the trivial name dentatus. If this is the 
t, has not the great naturalist formed his specific character with less 
Precision than usual, since there are other Agarics more obviously den- 
tated than the above, particuldrly than the coccinews 302, which in 
Schzeffer’s table does not shew the indented character? I have frequently 
Ag. coccineus of Scheefter, but donot recollect to have observed 
the teeth, and if they were observable, in an Agaric so remarkable in its 
colour and habit, they might have been noticed in the general descrip- 
tion of the plant, while its more obvious distinctions should have fur- 
hished its trivial name. : 
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