282 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Loose. Rep: 
which inclosed the pileus only in its young state; 13 
inch from the edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, shining, 3 or 4 inches high, thick as a 
goose quill often remaining after the decay of the pi- 
Jeus. Bott. Common in dry vaults, poor cottages and 
under carpets on ground floors. Mr Bolton's figure and 
description very just, but he has delineated one of the 
largest of the species. Mr. Sracknouse. 
Ag. domesticus. Bolt. In clusters on wet rotten wood in 
cellars and damp kitchens. . 
appendicu- Ac. (Bux.) Gills brown red to chocolate, 4 in a set: 
Ja‘tus. pileus pale buff, conical: stem white. 
Bull. 392. B. Scheff. 237. 
Git1s loose, flesh red, liver colour or chocolate with age, nume- 
rous, 4 in a set. ; 
Prreus a broad blunt cone, pale buff, centre darker; the whole 
darker with age, semi-transparent, 12 inch over, cracking 
__ at the edge and becoming striated as it expands. 
Stem hollow, white, splitting, cylindrical, smooth, 13 to 2 
+ inches long, thick as a raven’s quill. - 
Curtain white, delicate, fugacious, hanging in fragments at 
the edge of the pileus, but soon vanishing after it is gathered. 
Growing in large patches, very much crowded together, so 
that it is rare to see the _ uniformly expanded. _ Dissolves 
into a brown watery fluid. Bulliard’s figure is a good represen- 
tation of our plant, but larger, and the gills rather too much of 
a salmon colour. Schzff. 237, to which he refers, is surely a ~ 
different species, 
Ag. appendiculatus. Bull. Ag. spadiceogriseus. Scheff. 
Cherry Orchard, Edgbaston, 27th Aug, 1791. 
Jacryma- Ac. (BuLt.) Gills dull red, broad, numerous, 2 or 4 in 2 
bun‘dus, set: pileus dirty brown, conical, woolly: stem hol- 
_ low, dirty white. 
Bull, 525. 3. and 194. 
G1its loose, dirty brownish red, liver coloured with age, close 
set, broad, speckled with black when old, exsudin 
spontaneously a thin milky fluid, which when concrete 
: forms the black specks. - Sead 
Pittus dirty brown, bluntly conical, flat and bossed when old, 
woolly, without flesh except at the top, edge turned in, 
12 inch from the edge to the top. . 
Stem hollow, dirty white, or paler brown than the pileus, 2 
3 inches high, 2-8ths to 3-Sths diameter; splitting. 
