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260 | GRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI. ‘Agaritus. Hollow and 
. Fixed. Burr. 
The Gills are always yellow at first, but as the plant grows 
older the ruby tinge of the pileus pervades them, leaving them 
only yellow at the edges. °° 
Ag. dentatus of Hupson and Retuan. Dr. Sibthorpe refers 
Ray. Syn. 7. 33. to this plant, and it may be so, but Ray de- 
scribes his Agaric as becoming inverted and forming when old a 
funnel-shaped pileus, but the brittle texture‘of the plant before 
us will scarcely admit of such an inversion; it cannot even be- 
come flat without cracking. 
~ Red Rock plantation, Edgbaston. 3d Oct. 1794. 
crypta’rum. Ac. Gills pale yellow, 4 or 8 in aset : pileus pale yellow: 
convex, smooth : stem yellow, slender, smooth. 
Guts fixed, brimstone yellow, numerous, narrow, § in a set. 
Pixevs pale yellow, convex, rather conical, nearly ‘flat when 
. _... fully expanded, % to 4 of an inch diameter. 
: , Srem hollow, the tube very slender, yellow, polished, thick asa 
crow quill, 4 to 14 inch high; often crooked. 
_ The whole plant of a delicate pale yellow; it grows in clus- 
ters. Under the horizontal wooden’ door. of a wine vatlt, 
Edgbaston. : ~ Sept. 
Var. 1. Gills pale yellow, 4 in a set: pileus pale yellow, 
~ conical, smooth; stem dusky white. —s_ oe 
Seer RCS ae 
Guus fixed byafine point, | 
Pitgus glutinous, bell-shaped, pale dusky yellow, hardly 4 inch 
4 
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Stem hollow, dusky white, 1 inch high, thickness of a thin crow 
quill. Whole plant tender, watery, pellucid, wrapped 
in a soft downy covering when very young. Boiron. 
Ag. aquosus, Bolton ; not Ag. aquosus of Hudson, which is 
a variety of the Bat congregatus. 
On rotten w under the sprinklings of the stream of Elm 
Cragg Well at Bellbank, near Bingley, — April. 
¢ (6) GiLs buff. 
subcar’neus Ac, (Barscu.) Gills buff, broad, 4 in a set: pileus con- ~ 
vex, buff, darker in the centre, viscid: stem buff, 
polished. - 
Fl. dan, 1071. 2-Bastch. 100=Scheff. 63. 
Gitts fixed, buff, 4 ina set, broad, long ones about 22. ; 
Pinevs buff, convex, viscid, near + inch diameter ; when old 
~~ nearly flat, but hollowed in the centre and cracking at 
the edge. Sometimes the pileus is nearly semi-globular, 
but the edge turned outwards like the brim of a hat. . 
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