CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGT. Agaricus. Hollow and 289 
. Loose. Grey, 
Prieus grey, plaited, conical, 1} to 23 inches over. 
Sri hollow, white, smooth, swelling below and tapering up- 
wards like the flowering stem of an onion; 6 to 8 inches 
high, 1-<th to 3-Sths diameter. Botton. 
Ag. fimetarius. Huds, 617. Ag. pullatus. Bolt. Rich 
meadows, or dunghills. "June. 
~ Var. 2, Gills 4 ina set: pileus semi-transparent: stem in 
appearance horny. ; 
Bull, 88. 
Grits ending short of the stern, so as to form a channel round — 
it, gtey, broad, numerous. _ 
Pigus semi-transparent, smooth, but sometimes deeply furrow- 
ed, brown, flapping or hanging down at first, then turn. - 
ing up, tearing at the edge and then from its elastic na- 
ture the segments turning up. 
Stem hollow, horny. ‘This is well described by Bulliard, and 
though of such apparent firmness it dissolves into an 
inky fluid, the stem often surviving the,destruction of 
the pileus. Mr. SrackxHouse. ; 
Ag. cinereus. Bull. Meadows and road sides, Powick near 
Worcester. Mr. Sracknousr. 
Var. 3. Gills grey, in pairs, extremely narrow, not reaching 
the stem: pileus grey, conical, plaited, buff in the centre, 
_ patched with white pieces of the wrapper: stem white, taper- 
Ing upwards, 
Gixts loose, terminating at some distance from the stem, dark 
grey, very narrow, 2 or 4 in a set. 
Piteus grey, with white blotches, the remains of the wrapper, 
conical, |; inch high, centre light brown, or buff. 
Stem hollow, white, covered with a beautifully white soft down, 
very tender, splitting, tapering upward, thick at the 
root, 7 inches high, thick as a duck’s quill. 
*Ac. (Linn.) Gills pale grey, uniform: pileus mouse campanu- 
grey, conical, blunt: stem grey, smooth. la’tus. 
Vaill. xii. 1. 2-( Mich. 75.9, referred to in Fl. Suec. is 
wvholly awhite. This reference is rejected in Sp. Pl. but 
our English botanists supposing the fig. 5 the only error, 
quote Mich. 75. Gy but this is Ag. momentaneus, a much 
smaller plant, has a pileus flat when expanded, very 
thin, scored on vach side, and a white woolly stem. 
-Schaff. 31, has a bright yellow stem, and gills 4 in a@ 
set. )-~Schaff. 211, is, I believe, to be reckoned a Campa é 
nulatus, varying chiefly in the gills being drawn im pairs; 
Vou, IV. 
