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ostrea’tus. 
gl andulo’- 
sus, 
_ lobes. other little lobes come 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. Stems lateral, 
OW AYFE, 
Ac. (JAca.) Gills white, ‘irregular, Jong ones often 
branched at the base: pileus brown, smooth, thin, . 
and wrinkled at the edge. 
Curt. 216—Facq. austr. 104. . 
Giius fixed, whitish, of various lengths, the long ones often 
forked towards the base and anastomosing. 
Pirevs brown, smooth, rather shining, thin and wrinkled at the 
edge, from 1 to 8 inches broad, from 2 to iO inches long 
or more. Flesh white, tough. 
Stem, or rather root, solid, tough; penetrating deep into the 
crack of the beech tree, on which it grew. 
Very much resembling the shape of an oyster, but hollowed 
underneath. It has a faint sickly smell. 
Mr, Woodward suspects that this in a more advanced age 
may be the Ag. conchatus, : 
Near Ditchincham, Norfolk, on decayed ash. Mr. Woopw, 
In clusters of 5 or 6 or more on willow, or elm. Mr. Sracx- 
House.—lIn a cleft in the bark of a large beech, near the root; 
Edgbaston Park. | 
Var. 2. Proliferous, — 
_ Gills pure white, unequal. Pileus dark olive colour, leathery, 
thin; edge turned down. It rises from a sort of pedicle, from 
whence !, 2, 3 or more misshapen lobes proceed. From these 
fois Description and drawing 
from Mr. Sracxnouse. 
Powick, near Worcester,. 
Ac. Gills white, their sides studded with globular glands: 
pileus dark brown: stem lateral, white, 
Ball, 426. 
Grits white, very decurrent, studded with globular glands, 
which when dissected out and magnified appear like 
prickly balls. 
Prius rich dark brown,. very large. Mr. Relhan measured one 
which was 18 inches by 14. Flesh very thick, white. 
Stem lateral, very short, white. BuLirarp. 3 
M, Bulliard tells us it grows on large trees, and on stum| 
of trees towards the end of autumn and in winter. Mr. Rel- 
han found it at Babraham near Cambridge, and communicated 
this discovery to me. : ! : 
Ag, glandulasus, Bull, 
dimidia'tus, *Ac. (Scuzer.) Gills whitish, branched: _ pileus red 
brown and grey, semi-circular, convex, scaly, fleshy, 
_turned in at the edge: stem lateral, whitish. 
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