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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus, 
Gills decurrent, white, very numerous, mostly four in a set. Pileus hollow 
in the centre, edge turned down ; three to four inches over. Stem white, 
tapering downwards, rounded at the end, one to one and a half inch 
high, and the same in diameter. Juice milky, abundant, very acrid. 
Bulliard. Gills white, in age turning faintly yellow. Pileus when young 
cushion-shaped, and the margin rolled in, but even then it is always 
depressed in the centre; surface somewhat velvety, strongly marked with 
concentric lines of a fulvous colour. Mr. Woodward. 
In groves, or amongst bushes on a clayey soil near Bungay. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. 
Var. 5. Pileus greenish brown, flecked and gluey. 
Gittfh little decurrent, white, four in a set. 
Pileus flat, rather depressed, edge turned in, greenish brown, flecked and 
gluey, two and a half inches over. 
Stem solid, white, about two inches high, near half an inch diameter, cylin¬ 
drical, not quite central. Milk white. 
In Lord Aylesford’s Park at Packington. Autumn. 
Very like Ag. prasinus of Schaeffer, but differs in the colour of the gills 
and in having a milky juice. Bulliard’s plate 591, called Ag. orcella, may 
possibly represent other varieties. 
Ag. adeuesiVus. Gills pure white, four in a set: pileus brown white, 
the centre darker: stem white, gently tapering upwards. 
Gills moderately decurrent, very white, not crowded, four in a set. 
Pileus brown white, darker in the centre, flat, but a little bossed; edge 
turned down; one and a half to two and half inches over, very viscid. 
Flesh white, pithy. 
Stem solid, pithy, white within and without, three inches high, nearly half 
an inch diameter, thickest downwards, seldom quite straight. 
The pure milk whiteness of the gills remains unchanged during the life of 
the plant. The viscidity of the pileus increases by keeping, so as to 
become extremely adhesive. Growing single, or in clusters. 
(Adhesive Agaric. E.) Red Bock plantation, Edgbaston. Sept. 
Ag. fra'grans. Gills white, four in a set: pileus brownish white, 
semi-transparent: stem brown white. 
Sowerhy 10. 
This Agaric is by no means uncommon with us, and if it grow in other 
parts, it is matter of surprise that it should have remained unnoticed so 
long. It imparts a fragrant odour like that of new mown hay. Its 
colour approaches nearly to a stone colour, and does not vary through¬ 
out the different parts of the plant. The transparency of the pileus 
showing the form of the gills through its surface, it might be called 
striated, as well as other fleshless Agarics; but this distinction, when it 
does not arise from colour, or some peculiar structure of the pileus itself, 
is with more propriety omitted. Major Velley. 
Gills slightly decurrent, not very numerous, two or four in a set. 
Pileus dead brown, white, smooth, gently convex but rather dimpled in the 
centre, becoming hollow with age, but not turning up at the edge. 
Stem solid, fibrous, cylindrical, dead brown white, two to two and a half 
inches high, thick as a crow or goose quill. 
The Pileus is not always so transparent as to show the gills through it. 
The cupping of the pileus as the plant grows old tears the gills near the 
