284 |  GRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI: Agaricus: ' Hollow ‘and 
Loose. Burr. 
Girts loose, faint dusky flesh-colour, soft; pliable, tender. 
Preus convex, nearly flat when fully expanded, tender, watery, 
git thin, 4 or 5 inches diameter. . . 
TEM hollow, shining, gradually tapering upwards, sometimes 
twisting, splitting into fibres, ie irregular, 5 inches 
high, near 4.an inch diameter. Boron. Pileus when 
fully grown sinking in the centre. 
Ag. repandus. Bolt. Ag. dryophyllus. Bull. Shady woods.. 
ees Aug. Sept. 
Var. 2, Gills pale brown buff, numerous, irregular: pileus 
dark brown, flat, velvety : stem pale brown, short. 
Bull. 434. D. 
Gitts loose, pale brown or buff, numerous, irregular. 
Piveus dark brown, flat, centre depressed, surface velvety to the 
touch. see a 
_ Stren hollow, pale brown, short. Fuice milky, mild. | Specimen 
and description from Mr. SrackHouse. 
Coplar wood, near Hereford. Sept. 1791. 
Var. 3. Gills nearly white: pileus reddish buff; stem red- 
dish, | 
Bull. 434; upper figures. 
Giits loose, 4 or 8 in a set, nearly white, pretty closely set. 
Pitgus flattish, unequally waved at the edge, 1 to 14 inch over, 
reddish buff, sometimes streaked at the edge, dimpled in 
‘ _ the centre. 
Stem hollow, reddish, paler and thinner upwards, 2 inches high, 
thick as a raven’s quill. Root crooked. 
Edgbaston Red Rock plantations, amongst rotten Neem 
: : pt 
nodo'sus. Ac, Gills pale buff, 4 in asct: pileus convex, pale buff, 
darker in the centre: stem light buff: root a knob. 
G1 ts loose, pale buff, 4 in a set, not crowded. soy 
Prxeus pale buff, centre rich brown buff, regularly convex, some- 
what plaited at the edge, + inch diameter. 
Srem with a fine hollow, cylindrical, pale buff, 12 inch high, 
gathes thinner than a crow quill. Root a small hard 
knob. 
_ In the Earl of Aylesford’s Park at Packington, Warwick 
shire, © : Autumn. 
ardosia‘ceus *Ac. Gills brown buff: pileus blue, convex : stem blue. 
3 Bull. 348, 
G1tts loose, brown buff, 4 in a set. - Wee 
Pizzus blue slate colour, convex, centre depressed, inverted when 
