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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Loose. WHuiteE. 
but leaving some marks on the stem, and on the edge of the pi- 
leus. It has a disagreeable smell. soe 
Ag. clypeolarius. Bull. Woods near Bath. Powick, near 
Worcester  pastutes, Woolhope, Herefordshire. Mr. Stack. 
HousE. Ina pine grove, Didier, Norfolk. Mr, Woop- 
WARD ; who sent me a very accurate description of it hefore he 
knew that it had been found elsewhere. Edgbaston Park, 
amongst grass, very rare.—Ag. cristatus. Bolt. August. 
Var. 3. Gills whitey crowded, 4 or 8 in a set: pileus con- 
vex, dirty white, with reddish blotches and centre reddish: 
stem dirty white, blotched : ring none. 
Curt. 315-Buxb, hall. row the last, marked p. 122, 
Gitts loose, very numerous, narrow, white, changing to a red. 
dish brown. 
Pineus convex, nearly flat with age, whitish but blotched with 
rusty red, and almost mails red in the centre, smooth, 
1 to 3 inches over. Flesh white, firm, twice as thick 
as the gills are broad. 
Stem hollow, clumsy, often spotted with rusty red, faintly stri- 
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ated, cylindrical, but tapering at the root, 3 inches high © 
or more, 3-Sths diameter. Flesh white, firm, in thick. 
ness equal to the diameter of the hollow. Curtis Fl, 
Lond. v. 53. ET i 
Ag. carnosus, Growing singly or in clusters, in Lord Mans- 
field’s pine wood, Hampstead. [Pine grove, Kirby, Mr. 
Woopwarb.] Sept. 22d. 
Ac. Gills white, irregular: pileus dark brown at tops allia'ceus, 
paler at the edge : stem almost black : root crooked, 
knotted. - 5 ge 
Facq. austr. 82. 
Grits loose, pale, unequal, mostly 4 ina set, long ones some- 
times cloven: they are loose fromthe stem, but fixed to 
a fleshy ring underneath the pileus. 
Prreus bluntly conical, dark brown at the top, paler towards the 
edge, scored, smooth, opake, 14 inch over. ; 
Stem hollow, black, shining, straight, firm, 4 to 6 inches high. 
Root crooked, thick, knotty, sunk about an inch into the 
earth, and always attached to rotten wood. Always solitary. 
Has a strong offensive garlic smell, which it retains for days 
after it has been gathered. Linnzus supposed it to be a variety 
of his Ag. campanulatus. Jacquin. 
Ag. aie. Jacq. but not of Bulliard, for that has a stem 
_* hairy on the outside and solid within. . 
Mr. Retnan found this plant in woods and shady places at- 
tached to rotten wood, and oak leaves, particularly in Mading- 
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