CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. ‘Agaricus. Hollow and 
. Fixed. Burr. - 
261 
Stem hollow, the hollow nearly filled with pith, buff, viscid, — 
polished, cylindrical, about. 1 inch high, thinner than a 
crow quill. Ray Syn. p, 8. n. 38. > 
Ag. camponulatut. Scheff. Ag. subcarneus, Batsch. Packing. 
ton and Edgbaston Parks, on rotten wood. 7th Nov. 1790. 
Ag. Gills deep buff, 4 ina set: pileus convex, buff: stem 
whitish above, dark brown and scaly below : ring 
penmaiient, “pale brown 7 eS 
Gits fixed, numerous, deep buff, 4 in a set. he hie 
Pingus convex, rather bossed, pale buff, but the centre, and a 
ips round the border darker; 4 to 14 inch over. Flesh 
white. 
pte 
Srem hollow, cylindrical, thick as a raven’s quill, it to 2 
inches high, nearly white above the ring, dark brown 
below it; the dark part apparently rough with short, 
brown, slender, rising scales. Ring fixed near the gills, 
forming a beautiful pale brown fringe round the stem. 
~- Resembles the Ag. nigripes. Bull. 344. but the gills in 
our plant are darker, and that hasnoring. _ 
_ Plantations, Edgbaston, 9 » $list Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Gills uneven at the edge; pileus yellow brown, 
bell-shaped, blunt : stem pale buff: ring none. 
Edge of the pileus very dark coloured, and turned up. 
On rotten wood, in Packington Park, Autumn. 
Ac. (Scuar.) Gills buff, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus con- 
vex, bright bay, tufted with dark hair: stem brown, _ 
bay, tufted, 
Curt, 264, very large-Schaff. 61, size of our pexie-Ball, 
2663 gills much darker than ours—Batsch, 3C-(not Battar, 
t. 8. H. for that plant is entirely white.) 
Gixts fixed, buff, turning brownish, numerous, 2 or 4 in a set, 
but irregular, am 
Piteus bright bay, set with dark triangular pencils of hair, 
convex When young, bossed in middle age, concave 
when old, edge turned down, i* to 2 inches-dver. 
Stem hollow, brown, fibrous or hairy, 2 inches high, nearly as 
thick as a goose quill, Curtain fugacious, Rixg per- 
manent, - 2 < 
This is with us a very rate species, and my opportunities of 
_ examining it have been insufficient to allow me to clear up some 
difficulties which present themselves on inspecting the figures and 
descriptions of authors, I beg therefore to be understood as 
speaking with great uncertainty, and wish it may challenge the 
scario sus. . 
flocco’sus, 
