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CRYPTOG: AMTA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
Loose. ‘Grey. 
Ag: stercorariits. Bull.On Dunghills, and in Poultry yards. 
June. 
a 
momenta’~ Ag. (BuLL.) Gilla grey} whiter ies grey, “streaked, 
neus. 
eS — 
; 
cine’reus. 
“centre brown orange: stem white. 
| Fl, dan. 832. 2-Bull, 128—Battar. a7. D-Bolt. 39. C- 
Mich. 7516. 
When mature, it is perfectly horizontal on its stem: Mr 
Sracknouse; but it hardly remains an hour in this state, the 
edge curls up, and it dissolves into a watery fluid containing an 
immense number of black egg-shaped seeds. 
Gis loose, in contact with, but not connected with the stem, 
grey, very fine and slender, ehioRtie sometimes split; 
when young white. 
Pi.evs conical, soon becoming flat, grey, centre E brows orange, 
extremely thin, nearly transparent, ail uneven, 1 to ig 
inch over. 
Srem hollow, beautifully white, eylitidrical but rather tapering 
upwards, brittle, splitting, a little scurfy, 2 to 4 inches 
high, thick as a goose or a crow quill. © 
When fully expanded the gills and the pileus appear as if. 
composed of the same substance, but examined in a younger 
state the gills are quite white and the pileus the colour of horn. 
‘The streaks on the pileus are only apparent, and caused by the 
upper edges of the gills being seen through the ~ thin mem= 
branaceous pileus. 
Ag. radiatus. Bolt. Ag. momentaneus. Bull. Ag. crenula- 
tus. Fl. dan. Pastures after —_— gentle rain. 
Oct.—April. 
*Var. 2. Gills grey, uniform: sitdia tawny brown, strongly — 
streaked: stem white. 
Fi. dan. 1134. 2-Belt. Scheff 201... 
Grits loose, uniform, grey, changing to black. 
Piteus egg-shaped, edge turned in, scolloped, ‘reddish ican . 
2; inches from the edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, 5 or 6 inches high, 4 + inch diameter. Bott. 
Ag. rufo-candidus. Scheff, Single or in clusters 5 on the 
ground or on rotten wood. 
Ag. (Scu#rr.) Gills grey, sinanae not’ reaching the 
"stem: pileus grey, streaked, centre brown: stan 
one White, tapering upwards. os 
ae ee 1195—Bolts' 20-Schaf. 100 and. ae 
Gitts terminating at some distance from” Bie « stent; ‘tendet, 
watery, 
