CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. ‘Agaricus, Hollow and 
Loose. WHuitk, ; 
Srem hollow, red brown, yellow in the inside, larger upwards, 
sometimes flattened, 22 inches high, nearly as thick as 
a goose quill. i 
Ag. dispar. Rasch: In the Park at Packington, War- 
wickshire. . . 
Ag. Gills brownish white, broad, regularly 4 in a set : 
pileus semi-globular, brown, smooth : stem brown. 
Gitts not reaching the stem but forming a channel round it, 
white or brown white. © Te SE TD 
Pireus dark brown chesnut, hemispherical, turning up with age, 
smooth, sometimes rather bossed, without flesh, 2 to 1 
inch over, quite black when old. 
Srem hollow, size of a straw, £ inch high, dark brown, thicker 
at the top where it joins the pileus. . Description and 
drawing from Mr. Stacknousr, 
In short grass, oncommons in Herefordshire, not unfrequent, 
but I do not find it noticed. Mr. Sracxnouse. In the further 
plantations, Edgbaston, — : . ; Aug. 
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273 
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bus. 
*Ac. (BuLx.) Gills white, in pairs : pileus brown, glo- pilulifor'mis 
bular : stem white. 
Bull. 112. rae 
a large pea. ; 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, £t0 1 inch high, thick as a 
swallow’s quill. Bun.rarp. geen 
Ag. piluliformis. Bull, At the foot of trees, and under slabs 
of wood ; some scarcely larger than a Jarge pin. STackHowse. 
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Ac. (Ray.) Gills yellowish white, in pairs: pilews yel- turbina tus, 
low brown, cylindrical, scored: stem white, 
ve Scheff. 60, (but larger than our specimens, ' 
Gi115 loose, * semi-transparent, yellowish white, in pairs. 
Pies nearly cylindrical, reaching half way down the stem, 
blunt at the top, scored at the sides, uneven at the edge; 
yellow brown, deeper and richer brown at the top, white 
* But préssed close to the stem, and even adliering to it by their 
edges in a young state so as not to be scpatated without injury to the one 
or the other, but. still they are neither decurrent. nor fixed, the former 
impiying an extension of the base of the gili down along the stem, the 
latter an adhesion of the base or shoulder to the stem. This adhesion of 
the edge’ of the gill to the srem takes place only ‘in such as have almost 
4 cylindrical pileus, and it separates as the plant arrives at matutity. 
Vor. IV. ue : 
