CRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Loose. WHITE. 
Grits loose from the stem, but fixed to a collar surrounding its 
’ top, white, numerous, very irregular, sometimes 2 long 
ones together, sometimes a long and a short one alter- 
nately, most frequently 4 in a set, long gills often split 
at the end next to the edge of the pileus. 
Pitgvus convex, bossed, rich pale tawny brown, edge turned in, 
smooth and soft like glove-leather, wrinkled, the outer - 
skin cracking with age, 4 to ( inches over. 
Stem hollow, the cavity loosely filled with a fine silky pith, 
nearly cylindrical, crusted below, browner and flecked 
above, 6 or 7 inches high, 1-3d of an inch diameter. 
Curtain white. Rixg looseon the stem, permanent. Root 
a pear-shaped bulb, 
By the large clump of beeches, Edgbaston Park, 25th Oct. 
: Var. 3, Gills white, fixed toa collar, in pairs, irregular: 
pileus conical, bossed, tufted, pale brown : stem smooth, white, 
| SS PS 
Grits loose from the stem, but fixed to a collar surrounding its 
top, salmon-coloured when young, write when full grown, 
very numerous, mostly in pairs, but sometimes 3 or 4 in 
a set. “hee i 
Prievs globular when young, then conical, lastly flat, but bos. 
sed, whitish brown, covered with tufts of a darker shade, 
3 to5 inches over. Flesh white, thin. : 
Stem hollow, loosely filled with fine silky pith, cylindrical, 
white, smooth, sometimes downy, 4 to 6 inches high, 
3-8ths of an inch diameter. Curtain white. Ring 
loose, strong, permanent. Rost a bulb, becoming flat 
with age like an onion, and then the lower part of the 
stem becomes angular. 3 
Ag. annulatus, Bolt, In the large plantation of beeches, 
Edgbaston Park. i Sept. 
Var. 4. Gills white, fixed to a collar, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus 
convex, rather bossed, brown upon a white ground: stem white, 
Smooth, tapering upwards: ring loose. 
Scheff. 18, 19, 
Grits loose from the stem but fixed to a collar surrounding its 
top; white; 4 in a set, sometimes in pairs; edges 
finely serrated with white glandular, or perhaps seminal 
substances. 
Pirzus convex, bossed, delicate tawny brown, the outer skin 
‘tearing as the plant enlarges, it shews a dead white 
ground freckled over with scurf or scales of the first 
brown colour, 2 to 3 inches over. Fi/esh white, 
Stem hollow, with a very fine, loose, silky pith; white, taper. 
ing upwards, splitting, 3 inches high, 3-Sths diameter, 
