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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
seasons semi-transparent. When very young some woolly fibres connect 
the pileus to the stem in place of a curtain. 
(Ivory Agaric. E.) Ag. virgineus. Jacq. and Sowerby. Ag. eburneus, 
and ericeus. Bull. Ag. denticulatus. Bolt. Amongst short grass: often 
near trees, Edgbaston. Oct. 
Ag. gigante'us. Gills wliite, broad, four in a set, but irregular: pileus 
dirty white, funnel-shaped, the edge reflected; stem white, 
rather tapering upwards. 
(, Sowerby 244. E.)— Buxb. 4.1. 
Gills decurrent; (very numerous. E.) 
Pileus from four to fourteen inches diameter, turned up when old so as to 
assume the shape of a funnel. 
Stem solid, two to four inches high, one inch diameter, nearly cylindrical, 
rounded at the base. 
(Gigantic Agaric. E.) Found by Dr. Sibthorpe on Shotover Hill, near 
Oxford. (And by Mr. Dickenson in a meadow at Blymhill, Shrop¬ 
shire, where it formed a ring seventeen yards in diameter. E.) 
Ag. cyatiufor/mis. (Bull.) Gills white, four or eight in a set: 
pileus white: glass-shaped: stem white, nearly cylindrical. 
Bull. 248. A— Bolt. 17— Schaff. 207. ill coloured ; f. 3. the best — ib. 39. more 
Jleshy than our specimens. 
Gills white, narrow, very decurrent; four in a set in the younger, but eight 
in the older specimens, from the greater extension of every other long one 
down the stem. 
Pileus white, satiny, one to two inches over, irregular at its edge, often 
tearing as it expands; flattish when young, and not always hollow as 
described by Bulliard. Edges are at first turned down, even though the 
central part be much hollowed, but at length they turn up, the whole 
plant in that state greatly resembling a drinking glass. 
Stem solid, white, one to two inches high, thick as a swan’s quill, rather 
thickest upwards, seldom quite central. 
(Glass-shaped Agaric. E.) Ag. cyathiformis . Bull. Ag. umbilicatus. 
Bolt, and ScluefF. Pastures, Edgbaston. Aug. 
Var. 2. Pileus and stem buff colour. 
Bull. 248. B. 
Pileus without flesh, deeply hollowed. Stem two and a half inches high. 
Woolhope; Beckbury Hill, Herefordshire, not uncommon. Aug. Mr. 
Stackhouse. Bulliard in his pi. 575 has figured several other varieties 
which I have not seen. 
Ag. ni'tens. Gills white; pileus white, bossed, centre yellowish: 
stem whitish buff, very long. 
(, Sowerby 71. E.)— Schcpff. 238. 
Gills decurrent, white, few, short, in pairs. 
Pileus white, boss yellowish, at first conical, then flat, lastly inverted ; (in 
decaying, when bruised, it acquires patches of a scorched appearance. 
Sowerby. E.) Two inches diameter. 
Stein solid, whitish buff, bending, three inches high or more, full one quarter 
of an inch diameter. 
