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margin, earthy-brown, often cracked ; gills numerous, firm, dull 

 white WITH. iv. 220. Sow. Fung. t. 66. 



Hah. Hedge bottoms, in shrubberies and in gardens, not 

 uncommon. Autumn. 



Stalk 2 inches long, generally \ inch in diameter, sometimes 

 much broader, compressed, white, contracted at the base. 

 Gills firmly fixed, even, numerous, but not close, 4 in a 

 set, of a dull watery white colour ; flesh white. Pileus 

 obtusely conical or nearly plane, dirty yellow-brown, 2 

 inches or more in breadth, the margin turned in or plane. 

 Springs up in remarkably compact roundish clusters, 

 which are often little less than a man's head, and endure 

 for a long time. Several of these clusters may sometimes 

 be observed placed in a line at equal distances ; and, ac- 

 cording to Major VELLEY, they sometimes form great 

 circles 10 or 15 yards in diameter. If a cluster is de- 

 stroyed, another will in a short time grow up in the same 

 spot, and if that be crushed it will be succeeded by a third ; 

 a fact of which I have taken particular notice, and which 

 proves that all agarics do not exhaust their parent soil, 

 and render it unproductive of their own species. Some- 

 times it grows single, or in a cluster of only 2 or 3 indivi- 

 duals, which has been the case with the specimens figured 

 by SOWER BY. 



18. A. fusco-flavus, "gills dark cinnamon, 4 in a set; pileus 

 brown-yellow, convex, bossed, edge turned down ; stem brown - 

 yellow, splitting." WITH. iv. 286. Ag. hinnuleus, Sow. Fung. 

 t. 173. Ag. helvolus, GREV. Fl. Edin. 387. 



Hob. Woods. Autumn. 



Stalk 1-2 inches high, thick as a swan's quill, narrowed at 

 the base, round or compressed, yellowish -brown, firm, hol- 

 low when old. Pileus brown, smooth, convex, with the 

 edge turned down, becoming flat, umbonate, sometimes 

 cracked at the margin, which is thin. Gills cinnamon 

 colour, 4 in a set, distant, ventricose, adnate, but easily se- 

 parating- A vestige of a ring is generally to be seen to- 

 wards the top of the stalk, and the whole plant is dry. 



19. A. cinnamomeus, stalk cylindrical, yellowish ; pileus plane 

 or convex, umbonate, smooth, cinnamon colour ; gills lighter cin- 

 namon, broad, rather distant, dry and wringled LIGHTF. Scot. 



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