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CRYPTOGAMIA: FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 
: e. GREY. 
but whoever has attended to the inaccuracy with which 
the gills are drawn in these plates, will. hardly think 
that an objection. 
Ag. stipitatus, pileo companulato striato pellucido, lamellis 
adscendentibus, stipite nudo. Sp. Pl. 
Gills ascending, grey or black. (Gills white. FI. lapp. 507. 
Fl. Suec. ed. i. 1054.)—Prleus grey, viscid, membranaceous, 
conical bell shaped. Szem naked, smooth, very long. Linn.— 
Gills uniform, white or very pale grey. Pi/ews mouse grey, 
conical, blunt, 3 inch high. Stem hollow, grey, polished, 2 
inches high, thick as a swallow’s quill, VAtuL. par. p. 71. 
Meadows, pastures, and woods, Sept.—Oct. 
*Var. 2. Gills whitish grey, turning black, uniform: pileus 
yellow brown, bell-shaped, blunt: stem greyish. 
Scheff. 6—Clus. ii. 293, bottom at the left hand-Dod. 482. 
‘I-Lob. ic. 11. 272-Ger. em. 1580, 2-Park. 1321. 19= 
Vaill. 12. 5.0, another variety, with gills in pairs~ 
Battar. 27. E. Mr. Woodward. 
Gixts loose, uniform, pale grey and then black with dust. 
Prtvs at first hemispherical, the edge tearing with age, 7 inc 
from the edge to the top. 
Stem hollow, greyish, roughish, 1 to 1 inch high, thick as a 
_. ravenquill, Scuarr. Hups.,; Very common on decay- 
* ing stumps. Pileus shaped exactly like a woman’s 
thimble, with a small dimple at the top; yellow brown 
streaked with black. Gil/s sooty grey, that is, powdered 
with black. Mr. Woopwarp. 
Ag. aquosus. Huds. 619. Ray Syn, p.7. n. 30. Ag. trune 
corum. Scheff. On wet rotten. wood, Aug.—Oct 
semi-oya’- Ac. Gills brown grey to black, 2 or 4 in a set: pileus 
tus. 
light brown, smooth, half egg-shaped: stem cylin- 
drical, white. 
Bolt. 53-—Bull. 164, varies a little from’it, in having no ap- 
pearance of a ring, and the pileus being scored-Fl, 
dan. 1070. 
Gixts loose, in contact with but not united to the stem, mode- 
rately numerous, 4 in a set, brown grey changing to 
black and deliquescing. : 
Piteus light brown, or like ivory, polished, smooth, wrinkled 
when old like wash-leather, bluntly conical, or rather 
the shape of the broader end of anegg, 14 inch from 
‘the edge to the apex, and as much across at the base 
F, lesh thin, white. 
