CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Stems lateral, 
oma WuiTE. — 
B. Srems lateral, 
(1) Gitxts white. 
Ac. Gills white, variously anastomosing: pileus white, 
semi-circular, downy: stem lateral, brown. white, 
knotty. | se 
Scheff. 43 and 44, resemble the plant, but the plate has more 
colour and the stem in less knotty. 
: ; 
Guts decurrent, white, variously anastomosing, and though 
labyrinthi- 
tor’mis, 
generally parallel, sometimes assuming the form of cir- — 
cular or angular cavities like the pores of a Boletus. 
Piteus white, semi-circular, irregularly scolloped at the edge, 
covered with a short woolly down; 2 to 4 inches over. 
Flesh white. 
Stem solid, 4 or 5 inches long, thickness of a little finger, 
tough, very knotty, dirty brownish white. 
Plantations Edgbaston, on the ground amongst moss, 
13th Sept. 1791. 
Ac. (BuLtiARD.) Gills white to yellow brown, the long 
“ones forked: pileus milky white, flat, thin. 
Bull. 152-Facq. fl. 238-Bolt. 72. 2.—-Pet. gaz. 95s 8. 
Wholly white, tender, brittle and pellucid ; in figure nearly 
semi-circular, sometimes with three . Dickson. 
Gii1s fixed, mostly uniform, splitting, white, changing to 
brownish yellow. , saa 
Ptrzus white as milk, flat, thin, half an inch over. 
Stem, or more properly perhaps, Root, a blackish knobby sub. 
stance. 
Without a stem, growing by its side on rotten sticks, in 
hedges, Buckinghamshire, Mr. Knapp.—From whom I first 
received specimens in the year 1787.—At first wholly white ; 
in time the gills turn yellowish, and in a dry season the whole 
plant dries and turns black before it decays. Mr. Woodward.— 
Gills set extremely fine, unequal in length, pale brown, narrow. 
_ Pileus snow white, powdery, convex when young, flat and the 
edge deflected with age; thin, tough. The whole springs from 
a Kind of pedicle, and never exceeds the size of a sixpence. 
tr. SrackHouseE. 
_ Ag. niveus. Jacquin and Dickson; but that name had been 
1ven before to a well-established species. _ 
Ray Spx. p.22. n. 8. Ag. sessilis. Bull. Ag. fabellatus. Bolt. 
rotten sticks, &c, under hedges, frequent. , 
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ses’silis. 
