CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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(Long-stemmed Viscid Agaric. E.) Whole plant very viscid,, but drying 
immediately after gathered. 
Ag. nitens. Schseff. (not of FI. Dan. E.) In Packington Park, Warwickshire. 
Autumn. 
Ag. infundib'ullformis. (Bull.) Gills watery t white, pellucid, 
narrow, four or eight in a set: pileus funnel-shaped, brownish- 
buff: stem brownish buff. 
Bull. 286— Bolt 61— (Sowerby 186. E.)— Sterbeck 15. B. B. very like it , but 
the stem too short and too thick. 
Gills very decurrent, white, numerous, narrow, thin, tender, brittle, the 
long ones often forked. 
Pileus brown buff, thin, pellucid, tender, smooth, hollow in the centre, 
convex and turned down at the edge; one and a quarter to three inches 
over; in the small plants the edge is even, but in the larger ones very 
much plaited or curled. 
Stem solid, brown buff, striated, disposed to twist, nearly cylindrical, white 
within, one and a quarter to two and a half inches high, from the 
thickness of a crow’s, to that of a swan’s quill. 
(Funnel-shaped Agaric. Ag. lobatus. Sowerby. Ag. gilvus. Pers. E.) 
Ag. infundibuliformis. Bull. Purt. Ag. Jimbriatus. Bolt. Plantations, 
Edgbaston, after much rain. July. 
Var. 2. Gills but little decurrent, turning to a watery jelly when bruised* 
Pileus dead white, thin, funnel-shaped: stem white, smooth, tough, 
pellucid. 
Bolt. 61. 
In the Park at Packington. 
Ag. obe'sus. (Batsch.) Gills white, greatly decurrent, branching and 
inosculating: pileus white, nearly fiat: stem white, very thick, 
short, inversely conical. 
Batsch. 21 6— Schajf. 307 ; too much colonized. 
Gills white, numerous; very narrow, so decurrent as to unite the pileus 
and the stem into one uniform substance. In general there is a short and 
a long gill alternately, sometimes there are four in a set, but the long 
ones frequently divide into two as they approach the edge of the pileus, 
and moreover the branches unite one to another so as to form a kind of 
net work. 
Pileus white, turning brown, smooth; at first a button, then growing flat, 
at length the edges rise so as to form a shallow concavity at the top, but 
the extreme edges still turned down. Diameter one and a quarter to one 
and a half inch. 
Stem solid, white, widening so much upwards as to be nearly equal to the 
breadth of the pileus; often flatted; about one and a half inch high. 
Root none but the rounded end of the stem. 
(Thick-stemmed Agaric. E.) Ag. clavceformis. Schasff. Ag. obesus. 
Batsch. (Purt. E.) Pastures amongst moss. Edgbaston. Aug. 1790. 
*Var. 2. Pileus pale dead brown, violet coloured at the edge. 
*b By watery white , is meant, that kind of appearance which is given to white linen 
or paper by wetting it; the wetting diminishing the intensity of the v/hiteness, but in¬ 
creasing the transparency. The term will likewise be occasionally used to express a 
similar effect on other colours. 
