CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Hollow and 2gt 
' Loose. Grey. Ja 
Stem hollow, white, smooth, cylindrical, pithy within, bulbous 
at the base, 5 inches high, thick as a goose quill. Hol- 
low sometimes, very fine, and without pith. , 
Curtain evanescent. Rize seldom perfect. 
Ag. atramentareus. Bull. Ag. ciliaris. Bolt. Ag. bicolor. 
Fl. dan. Cow pastures and dunghills. June—Sept. 
_ Var. 2. Gills grey, mottled, 2 or 4 ina set: pileus pale 
brown, smooth, shape of half an egg: stem brownish, cylin. 
drical. ae 
Bull. 58. 
Grits loose, grey, mottled, turning black, broad, mostly in 
pairs, numerous, deliquescent, shorter gills narrow in 
proportion to the long ones, and often not extending to 
the edge of the pileus. ; 
Pitzus brownish white, smooth, satiny, exactly the shape and 
about the sizé of the broader half of a hen’s egg cut 
across its longer axis. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, brownish white, 2 to 3 inches high, 
thick as a crow quill. (ages 
Ag. papilionaceus. Bull. Edgbaston Park, 7th Noy. 1790. 
Ac. (Curris.) Gills grey, in pairs: pileus ash-coloured, plicat ‘ilis, 
centre brown yellow : stem white. 
Bull. 542. f. 1-Curt. 20C-Batsch. 2-Battar. 27. B. C.- 
(Not Fl. dan, 832. 2) 
_ Grits loose, not reaching to the stem, grey or purplish grey, 
changing to black, semi-transparent, deliquescing, not 
~ numerous, in pairs. $B age 
Pitzus grey with a tinge of yellow, centre brown yellow, co- 
nical, flat when expanded, edge at first turned down, 
with age turning up, sides semi-transparent, plaited, 
centre with a small boss sunk ina hollow, + to 1 inch 
. over, centre underneath white, ffeshy. 
Strm hollow, white, smooth, cylindrical, feeble, 2 to 3 inches 
-high, thick as a crow quill. 
Curtaim yety evanescent, its. remains sometimes fringing the 
edge of the pileus, : 
- SNE Syn. p» Yan. 47. Ags ephemerus. Bull. Ag. virgineus. 
tsch. j ¢ 
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| _. This has been confounded with the Ag. momentaneus, but the 
| ls being in pairs, and their approach to the stem limited by a 
eshy circle in the centre of the pileus on the under side, are at 
ait times sufficient to point out the difference. ; 
Grass plats and new mown fields. April—Oct, 
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