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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
| Fixed. YELLOW. 
attention of those botanists who have better opportunities of 
examining it. I have two sorts of shaggy Agarics now before 
me, the one just now described, gathered at Edgbaston, an- 
other sort sent from Herefordshire by Mr. Stackhouse. The first 
sort has a regular fine hollow in the stem, and fixed gills, the 
fla’vicans, 
_ Batse 
second has a solid stem and decurrent gills. ‘The habit and 
grees appearance are the same in both, but these essential dif- 
erences in structure require them to be kept apart. Scheff. 61. 
is a very exact representation of the plants found here, and 
Scheff, 80. agrees well with the Herefordshire plant, Scheffer 
was aware that they were not the same plants, and has attempted, 
though not unsuccessfully, to point out some discriminating dif- 
ferences. Curtis 264, and Bull. 266, agree with the Edgbaston 
plant in structure, but they are both much larger, and the 
colour of the gills is too dark in M. Bulliard’s plate. The 
Herefordshire shins has been extremely well drawn by Mr. Stack- 
house, it is also indifferently figured Fl. dan. 491, of a small size, 
For what more I know respecting it see Ag. pilosus. 
4g. Froccasus, Scheff. Ag. squamosus. Bull, Ag. castaneus, 
(7) Gruts yellow. 
Ac. Gills pure yellow: pileus yellow, nearly flat, with 
an orange boss: stem yellow. = 
Giits fixed, yellow, narrow, 4 ina set. : 
Piteus yellow, with an orange coloured boss ; nearly flat, 1 inch 
diameter, a: 
Stem hollow, yellow, splitting, 1 to 14 inch high, thick asa 
raven quill, 2 
The pileus 1s nearly flat even in the younger state of the plant. 
Not much unlike Ag, scariosus, but differs in the colour and in 
the want of aring, — 
_ In the Earl of Aylesford’s Park at Packington, Warwick- 
shire, Autumn, 
(8) Grits green. 
fascicula’ ris Ac, (Hups.) Gills brown green, 4 in a set: pileus yel- 
es 
low and orange: stem yellow. 
| Schaff. 49, 1. 2, 3-Bolt, 20—F, By iii. 835. 
Gitts fixed, pale brown with a greenish cast, changing to dark 
olive brown; very numerous. 
Pitzus more or less conical, yellow, clothy, brown orange in the 
centre, which is sometimes rather bossed, 14 to 2 inches 
over, 
Stem hollow, yellow, crooked, sometimes compressed and ap- 
pearing as if double; 2 to 4 inches high, thick as a crow 
or a goose quill, 
