CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, Hollow and 
and Loose. Grey. 
Sr hollow, light brown, scored, cylindrical, 24 inches high, 
_ near % inch diameter, spreading out at the top so as to 
form one substance with the pileus. : 
In the Earl of Aylesford’s Park, Packington, Warwickshire, 
Autumn, 
A. Gills loose, yellow, 2, 3, or 4 ina set: pileus and stem 
pinky. 
Var. 5. Ag. aurantius. See page 263. . 
(6) Gits grey. 
Ac. (Scop.) Gills silvery grey, uniform: pileus grey 
brown, plaited: stem white. 
Curt. 101\-Schaff. 67. 68—Vaill. xii. 10. 11. 
G111s loose, in contact with but not fixed to the stem; silvery 
grey changing to black, very numerous, and so close set 
that it is hardly practicable to separate them; uniform, 
; deliquescent. 
Pitgus brown white or silvery grey, egg-shaped to bell-shaped, 
: with remarkable plaits or folds extending from the edge 
nearly tothe centre, from 3 to4 inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, brown at the base, tender, cylindrical, 3 to 
4 inches high, 2-8ths to 3-Sths diameter, thickest down- 
wards. : 
Mr. Curtis has discovered that the sides of the Gills are 
connected to each other by very fine filaments, which accounts 
as he observes for the difficulty of separating them. I suspect 
Mr. Lightfoot’s Ag. plicatus to be a different plant, for he de- 
scribes the gills as terminating short of the stem and leaving a 
vacant circle round the top of it. ~ 
Ray Sy. p. 5.0. 22. Ag. striatus. Huds. 617. Ag. Sigax. 
15 
Scheff. At the bottom of a gate post. Oct. 
Ac. Gills grey, uniform: pileus white beautifully frosted: 
stem while 
Bail 542. le 
Gtits loose, uniform, grey when full grown, but soon dissolving 
into a black liquor: quite white when yom, : ; 
Pitzus watery white, but incrusted with beautifully white 
“flakes; thin as tissue paper, very soon curling up and 
dissolving into a watery fluid replete with black seeds ; 
14 inch from the edge to the apex. — 2 : 
Stem hollow, tapering upwards, pure white, 5 inches high; 
thick as a raven’s quill. 
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auran’tius. 
ova’tus. 
