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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Loose.’ Wire. : 
~ Jey Plantations. It has lately been found also in woods about : 
Packington, Warwickshire, : Sept. 
ochra'ceus, AG. (Scn#rr.) Gills white, 4 in a set: pileus buff, 
dis'par, 
convex, semi-transparent : stem buffy white. 
Scheff. 255. : : 
Git loose, white, 4 in a set, but the smaller series frregular. ’ 
Pineus buff, convex, semi-transparent, flat with age and uneven . 
_ © at the edge, 1 to 1} inches over. 
Stem hollow, buffy, white, semi-transparent, cylindrical but. 
crooked where the root begins, 1 to 2 inches high, thick 
as a crow quill. 
Substance tender, so as not easily to be gathered from 
amongst the grass without breaking. In Scheeffer’s fig, refer- 
red to above, the gills are too highly coloured, and do not agree » 
with his description. © 
_ Edgbaston Park. Sept. 1791. 
Var. 2. Gills 8 in a set: pileus red brown, darker at the 
édge, stem white. : 
The Island, Edgbaston pool. == June, 179}. 
Var. 3.-Gills yellowish watery white, 8 in a set; pileus 
rich red brown, pale at the edge, cracking: stem as dark, or 
darker than the pileus. ‘ 
The stem so disposed to split that it is hardl ssible to ga- 
ther it entire. The gills leave an impression ie ‘ais top of ae 
stem, as if they had been fixed to it before the expansion of the 
pileus. 
- pool ; Edgbaston. . Qist June, 1792. 
Var. 4. Gills 8 in a set, often forked; pileus brown buf; 
stem red chesnut. 
Pileus very thin, semi-transparent, much crumpled and 
waved at the*edge, from 1 to 2 inches over. Sem hollow, flat- 
ted, frequently grooved or channelled on each side, so as almost 
to be divided lengthwise ; deep red chesnut below, paler up- 
wards, but sometimes darker upwards, and white at the top. 
Red Rock Plantation, Edgbaston. Sept. 
Ag. Gills yellow white, 4 in a set : pileus yellow white, 
convex: stem deep red brown, yellow within. 
Wes cae au; Baisch. 210, 5 
Grits loose, whitish, narrow, numerous. _ 
Pireus yellow white witha slight flesh coloured tinge, convex, 
edges turned iny-JZ inch over.: 
’ 
. Ag. lacer. Scheff, Under an oak by the side of the great 
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