CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus./ Hollow ‘and 
Loose. YELLow. 
old, but the edge still turned down; 2% to 3 inches dias 
meter, Flesh white. oF 
Stem hollow, grey blue, white at the bottom, tapering upwards ; 
4 inthes high; thick as a goose quill. Buttrarp. 
Ag. ardosiaceus. Bull. Pastures near Headington Wick 
copse. Dr. Sibthorpe. : Sept. 
(5) Grits yellow. 
*Ac. Gills pale yellow, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus pale yel- 
low, conical, dry, thin, tearing: stem compressed, 
~ twisting. . 
Bolt. 68. 
Giuts loose, irregular, very broad towards the outer end, waved, 
at the edges, tender, primrose colour. 
Pixeus conical, pale yellow, dry, smooth, silky, shining, tearing 
as it expands in several places nearly to the centre; 
to 4 inches over. : 
Stim hollow, splitting, often compressed, furrowed and twisted, 
3or 4 inches high, ¢ inch diameter. Botton. 
Mr. Bolton’s name (Jaceratus) has been before applied to a 
different species, vide Scopoli n. 1513. . tee ‘ 
Dry banks and barren pastures about Halifax, but rare. 
_Borton. : 
Ac. (Liyn.) Gills brimstone yellow, 4 in a set: pileus 
pale yellow, convex: stem yellow, cylindrical. 
¢ Bolt. 65. (not Scheff. 79.) 
Ag. stipitatus, pileo pallido: disco Iuteo, lamellis sulphu- 
reis. KF]. suec. 1219. Grills pale sulphur colour, which readily 
distinguishes it. Pilews convex, pale, centre yellow and marked 
with a tawny star. Stem naked, smooth. Linn. 
Giits loose, narrow, moderately numerous, thin, pliable, dull 
brimstone colour, uneven at the edge. tig 
Piteus convex, cylindro-conical when young, yellowish 
buff, bright yellow at the apex, 1 to 2 over; very 
thin and semi-transparent, shewing the edge of the gills 
through, which gives it a streaked appearance. 3 
Stem hollow, readily splitting, pale dusky yellow, sometimes 
quite white, 2 to 4 inches hi h, thick as a raven quill, 
_ Whole plant very tender and brittle. ; 
Major Velley justly observes that this cannot be the 35th of 
Ray, which is the aurantius. Gz//s yellowish, unequal, distant. 
. Pileus pale yellow, smooth, convex, gelatinous, transparent, 
shewing the insertion of the gills in a starry form round the 
apex, and the spot formed by the insertion of the stem forms the 
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