Brown. 
CRYPTOGAMIA, FUNGI. Agaricus. Stems lateral, 
a leaf upon its stalk, but sometimes more central, and 
turned up like a funnel; 1 to 13 inch over, the edge cut 
into irregular segments. ‘ 
Stem solid, dark brown, { to 4 inch high, thick as a crow quill. 
Drawing and description from Mr. SrackHowse. 
Ray Sya, p. 25. n. 23. Ag. semipetiolatus. Scheff. Stumps of 
oaks, Aldenham, Salop, Hazle stumps, Powick, “WVorcester; fre. 
quently growing in clusters. 
* Var, 2. Pileus about 2 of a circle, 1 inch diameter, entire 
at the edge. ~ 
— Bolt. 71-2-Vaill. 10. 7—-Buxb. v. 10. 1. 2. 
Grows single or tiled; of a dry leathery substance, a smooth- 
surface, and either a white or dull pale yellowish colour, 
GiLts 4 in a set, but irregular, narrow, short ones numerous, 
Piizus smooth, clothy. : 
Stem scarcely any. Mr. SrackHouse. vs 
Ag. semipetiolgtus. Licutroor. Ag. lateralis, Hupson. Ag. 
lateralis. Bolt. ‘On decayed branches of trees, | Aug.—Dec. 
*Ac. (Dickson.) Gills ochre coloured, 8 in a set: pileus 
whitish, convex, variously shaped, almost gela- 
tinous. 
Scheff. 213~Batsch. 38, 
An inch or two in length, and half as much in breadth. Stem 
none. The whole of this Agaric is very soft and tender, so 
much so as scarcely to bear handling. Pi/ews pale brown or dirty 
white, simple or variously lobed, waved or wrinkled. Gil/s 
pale yellow. Mr. Woopwarp, Stem, or more properly perhaps 
root, a small dark coloured substance. 
Ag. mollis. Scheff. Ag. vulneratus, Batsch. In the pine 
grove at Kirkby, on moss, 
Ac. Gills watery brown, 4 or 8 in a set : pileus light yel- 
low brown, surface cracked :. stem short, light 
“brown, clothy, 
Batsch. 122-Bolt.-72. f. 1-Bull. 557. 1, very like Sti 
Gi1is fixed to the stem, watery brown, 4 to 8 in a set, con, 
nected by numerous cross threads. : 
Pineus light yellowish brown, shewing in the cracks a darker 
ground, like the surface of a dried fig, from { to 1¢ inch 
diameter, concave in the centre, edge turned down; 
sometimes rolled in, sometimes plaited like a cockle shell, _ 
Flesh whitish brown. 
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297. 
mollis, ; 
ficoi’des. 
