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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Bolt. 146. 
On stumps of trees, Northowram. Aug, 1791. Bolt. 
Ag. pistilla'ris, Gills white, in pairs, very short, pileus whitish, 
convex; stem whitish, conical, crooked. 
Batscli. 62. ( [but a little different in the colour of the Pileus.) 
Gills white, decurrent, in pairs, hardly exceeding the twentieth of an inch in 
length. 
Pileus whitish, uniformly convex, about one and a quarter of an inch over, 
the edges curled inwards about the stem. 
Stem solid, whitish, three quarters of an inch long and one quarter diameter, 
thickest at bottom, bent in one or two directions. 
I have never found it in any other state than that just now described. 
(Crooked-stemmed White Agartc. E.) Ag. libertatis. Batsch. Amongst 
grass and moss. Edgbaston. 20th Aug. 1791. 
Ag. ti'grinus. Gills yellowish or greyish white, four in a set: pileus 
whitish, tufted, convex, centre depressed: stem slanting, more 
or less spotted. 
Bull. 70—( Sowerby 68. E.) 
Gills slightly decurrent, grey white, four in a set. 
Pileus whitish, penciled with reddish brow T n hairy scales, gently convex, 
rather bossed, hollow when old, full two inches over. 
Stem solid, white, more or less tufted like the pileus, one to two inches 
high, thick as a raven’s, or swan’s quill, tapering downwards. 
Substance of the plant leather-like. It varies as to the quantity of its tufted 
spots. 
(Spotted-stemmed Tufted Agaric. E.) Ag. tigrinus. Bull. On de¬ 
cayed trunks of trees, particularly on the elm. Powick, near Worcester. 
Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. Packington Park, amongst moss. 
Ag. ca'seus. Gills white, four in a set: pileus pale mouse, gently 
convex, edge turned in : stem cylindrical, upright. 
(' Grev . Scot. Crypt. 41.— Soiverby 61. E.)— Bolt. 40— Bull. 400. the same, 
but more coloured. 
Gills decurrent, dead white or yellowish white, thin, numerous, narrow, 
dry, four in a set. 
Pileus pale mouse, clothv, smooth, gently convex with the edge turned in, 
three inches over, (with age becoming concave and cyathiform, though 
the extreme margin continues involute. Grev. E.) 
Flesh dry, brittle, not fibrous, resembles cream-cheese. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, upright, bulbous at the base. 
This chiefly taken from Mr. Bolton, but his trivial name, mollis, must be 
rejected, as it has before been applied to a different species, and particu¬ 
larly to one of Schaeffer's, which is also a British plant. 
(Cheese-shaped Agaric. Ag. gilvus. Grev. E.) Ag. pileolarius. Bull. 
Ag. mollis. Bolt. Dry woods and pastures about Halifax. Mr. Bolton. 
Pendarvis, Cornwall, in Oct. Mr. Stackhouse. 
War. 2. Gills snow white : stem and ring very large. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Of a very soft and pulpy consistence. Near Bath. Mr. Stackhouse. 
