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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGT. Agaricus, Stems lateral. 
Brown, ; 
Giits fixed, only branched near the edge of the pileus. 
Prius greyish with reddish brown scales, 14 inch by 23. 
Srem solid, inversely conical, fixed to the side of the pileus, 
full inch long, and about as much in diameter. 
This differs from the Ag. ostreatus in being solitary, the 
pileus scaly, the gills not decurrent, ‘branched towards the mar- 
gin only, and not anastomosing at the base. It differs from the 
Ag. betulinus.in being fleshy, convex, the margins inflected, 
and having ashort stem. Mr. Woopwarp. | 
_ Ag. campestris, Scheff. On an old ash at Ditchingham, Mr. 
-Woopwarp. 
(2) Grits brown. 
295 
Ac. (Bururarn.) Gills rich brown, extremely numerousconcha’tus. 
- the edge greatly turned in. 
| 3 _ Ball. 298, 
and’ irregular:  pileus vn, shining, glutinous, 
Gixts decurrent, rich brown, very numerous, of every varying 
length from7 inches to less than 4 an inch. 
Pizeus brown, rather shining and glutinous, convex, or con- 
cave, edge rolled inwards and downwards, 7 inches from 
the root to the outer edge, and nearly as much in breadth, 
_ but its various contractions make its shape very irregular. 
Flesh thick, brown white. , ig 
Srem solid, short, thick, brown. - sae 
. dg. conchatus. Bull, Edgbaston, on large trees, 
Se beer - 8d Aug. 1791. 
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Ac. Grits orange brown, not numerous, irregular: pileus 
orange brown, nearly cireular: stem yellow brown, 
between central and lateral. . 
Grits fixed, orange brown, thin, not very numerous, of 3 or 4 
different lengths, not at all decurrent. 
_Pireus orange brown, dry, scaly, and cracking ; convex, nearly 
circular from 3 to 5 inches over. Flesh yellow. 
Stem solid, more yellow than the pileus ; 14 to 3 inches long, 
_ £ inch diameter, sometimes swelling out into a globular 
substance near the gills ; lateral in the large but nearly 
central in some of the smaller specimens. ; 
Grows in clusters, is of a rich orange brown, and throws 
Out a great quantity of seeds from its gills, of the same colour, 
{tconnects the agarics with central stems with those which have 
lateral stems, = See ‘ 
aurantio~ 
ferrugin’eus 
