CRYPTOGAMIA, -FUNGI.: ‘Agaticus.» Hollow ‘and 
Srem hollow, pithy, white, cylindrical, tender, 4 to: 8 inches 
high, = inch diameter. 5 os. ee 
Curtain small, white, connecting the: pileus to the stem in 
its younger state, and leaving a Ring on. the stem, loose, per- 
manent. _ aie ti. eee A ace 
. , This beautiful but fugacions plant has been extremely well 
figured by the authors cited above, but our best English bota- 
nists have fallen into. an error in supposing _it-to be the Ag. 
fimetarius of Linnzus, as will be evident to those who.will take’ 
the trouble to compare the figures or the descriptions. ‘That 
has white gills, changing to black, this fine pink or rose red; 
that is egg-shaped, this cylindrical, that grows on dunghills, 
this in open pasttre land. ve (abe 
A young plant put into water and covered with a glass bell, 
gtew three inches and a quarter in twelve hours. In decay it 
deliquesces in form of a dark-colouted fluid hanging in drops on 
the gills. ‘The outer white coat of the pileus is sometimes so 
thin as to allow the inner pinky colour to appear through it, es- 
pecially towards the bottom of the pileus. . - 
Ag, fimetarius. Curtis. dg. porcellaneus. Scheff. Ag. 
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jimetarius, Bolt. -Ag, comatus. Fl. dan. Amongst rushes, 17th — 
. 
Sept.—In an open pasture field, 2d May. 
Var. 2. Gills -fine red: pileus white and downy, soom 
changing tored: ring permanent. 
Bolt, 142. 
Giuts loose, uniform, carnation coloured. 
Pirevs at first white, downy; this white down disappears and 
the surface becomes striated and of a livid carnation co. 
lour ; cylindrical when young, bluntly conical and turn. 
ing up with age, 14 inch from the edge tothe apex. — 
Srem hollow, white, splitting, tapering upwards, 3 inches high, 
3-8ths diameter. Riag near the bottom of the stem, 
white, permanent. Botox. It principally differs from 
the preceding in the abrasion of the white downy out- 
ward coat of the pileus, which may be merely accidental, 
and then from the extreme tenuity of the inner mem- 
brane the red of the gills becomes visible. / 
Ag. oblectus. Bolt, On new dunghills, but rare. In the 
garden field at Edgbaston, 24th July. 
*Var. 3, Gills pinky, uniform : pileus light brown, mottled, 
conical, 
Bolt, 26-Battar. 26, D. E. Fe 
Giits loose, distant from the top of the stem, pale pinky grey, 
uniform, numerous, broad, dissolving. : 
Pingus conical, very uneven at the edge, hght brown, set with 
fragments of a very pale grey brown cottony wrapper, 
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