CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. ‘Agaricus, Hollow and 
Loose, Wuire. 
Ac. (But.) Gills white, with grey edges, 2 or 4 if a 
_ set: pileus conical, brown buff, sides furrowed + 
stem white, smooth. Nes 
Bolt. 54, the small Jfigures—Bull. 437. 2-94, too smooth and 
too yellow for our specimens, 
Gits loose, white, ed ‘ led, 2 or 4 in a set3 
_ black with age, pity 8 See a Pa 
Pieus conical, brown buff, apex a darker brown, surface strong. 
ly streaked, or rather furrowed, edge very uneven, bend. 
_ ing in towards thestem, 14 to 2inchesovers 
Stem hollow, white, scurfy when young, splitting, 2 to 3 
inches high, 4 inch diameter, Fea 
M. Bulliard justly observes that the edge of the pileus 
hangs down lower on one side than on. the ether. 
Ag: spriatus. Bolt. In clusters, on the milking bank, Edg. : 
baston, in a hollow where an elm had been fallen, 3ist. Oct. 
The crops repeated in the same season. In a similar situation 
in the Grove, 14th April. Poultry yard. Aug. 
when older, 4 in a set : pileus and stem downy. 
Bolt. 156—Bull, 138-Mich. 73. 3. 
. edges, which soon extends over the whole surface. 
Pixeus grey, downy ; but this covering, tearing as it expands, 
remains in patches on the surface, which then appears 
; elsewhere white and striated ; conical, blunt, 14 inch 
high. 
Stem Sitio covered like the pileus with a lead-coloured 
down, cylindrical, 24 inches high, thick .as a raven’s 
quill. Boron. 
Ogden Kirk. 
Ac. Gills white, changing to grey black: pileus pale 
yellow brown, spangled, conical : stem white. 
Bull. 246, and 565-Scheff. 1\7—Fl. dan. 1193, 
Gixts loose, white, but soon changing to grey and almost to 
. black, very numerous. 
Puevs pale yellow brown, more yellow at the top ; conical, 
bossed when fully expanded, streaked and glittering, as 
if strewed with minute spangles ; 1 2 inch from the edge 
. to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, 3 or! 4 inches high, nearly as 
thick as a goose quill. 
a 4 
_ Gitts loose, white on the sides, but with a black powder at the 
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congrega’s 
tus; 
 * Var. 2. Gills white, black on the ¢ ges, wholly black — 
~ Ag. tomentosus, Bolt. Amongst wet moss on a peat bog near 
mhica’eus, 
