sachara’tus. 
__ CRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Loose: “Wire. 
Curtain white, fringing the edge of the pileus when it tears. 
Ring permanenty fixed to the stem.) Root but little larger than 
thestemtes ‘Hcl: s bes negli g swt 
Ag. excoriatus, Scheff. Ray Syz. p. 3.n. 11. , 
“This is a very beautiful plant, approaching in much of its 
structure so closely to the Ag. procerus that it must be consi- 
dered only as a Variety of it, nor do I think the smooth white 
stem, or the more tender and fixed ring sufficient to establish it 
gee species ; yet it must be confessed that its habit and its smal. 
r size impress one with a different idea. a 
Edgbaston Park, under large Spanish chesnut trees. 4th Sept. 
Ag. Gills white, mostly uniform, narrow: pileus brown, 
flat : stem white, cylindrical, 
Gixts loose, not reaching the stem, white, not numerous, uni. 
: form, but sometimes 1 and very rarely 2 short gills 
intervening. 
Pinevs pale brown, flat, darker in. the centre, border scored, 
semi-transparent, surface sprinkled with remnants of a 
white wrapper like candied sugar, most frequent about 
the centre, 2 inches over. 
STEM hollow, white, cylindrical, 3 inches long, thick as a large 
extincto’ = 
ius, 
. 
ae quill. 
Appance Park, on the bank opposite the long stew. 
*AG, (Lixw.) Gills white, numerous, uniform; pileus 
white, bluntly conical: stem white. = 
- Balt. 24—Bull, 437.1. 2-Battar. 27. H. 
_ Ag. stipitatus, pileo campaniformi albido lacero, lamellis 
‘Riveis, stipite sub-bulboso subulato nudo. Linn. : 
Gills very white. Pileus convex, somewhat conical but 
expanding, dead white, surface scaly and torn, apex smooth 
ae dead white, thickest at the base, tapering, without a 11Ng+ 
+ SUCLe 
Gitts uniform, thin, pure white, changing to pale brown. 
’ Pireus shaped like an extinguisher, but blunt at the top and 
uneven at the edge, white, changing to pale brown 5 
surface smooth at first, with age streaked or scaly ; 1 OF 
1} inch from the edge to the apex. : 
Stem hollow, with a downy cotton within, smooth, cy lindrical, 
3 to 5 inches high, 3-10ths diameter. Boron.—Gils 
uniform, snow-white changing to blackish brown. rs 
deus flapping down the stem, yellowish or dirty white. 
Stem long, hollow, swelling at the base, Mr, STACKs 
HOUSE. 
