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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Gills decurrent, brownish white, four in a set, the smaller series unusually 
long. 
Pileus pale reddish brown; glass-shaped, but with a small rising in the 
centre ; thin and skinny, irregular, with one or more large notches in the 
edge, two to five inches over. 
Stem solid, spongy, pale brown, nearly cylindrical, two to four inches high 
from a quarter to half an inch in diameter; flesh, or rather pith, with 
several irregular perforations. 
Root an oval bulb formed by an enlargement of the stem. 
(Membranaceous Agaric. E.) Ag. membranaceus. FI. Dan. In fir plan¬ 
tations, Edgbaston. Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Pileus yellowish white, flat, bossed: stem white. 
Gills decurrent, brownish white, four in a set. 
Pileus yellowish white, nearly flat, with a permanent boss in the centre, six 
or seven inches over. 
Stem solid, spongy, white, four inches high, full half an inch diameter, 
cylindrical, but rather bulbous at the base. 
This plant is at first sight very unlike the inverted funnel-shaped plant of 
the Flora Danica, though on a strict examination there does not appear 
sufficient reason to consider it distinct; but this is certainly the most 
perfect state of the plant. 
In Lord Aylesford’s Park, Packington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ag. limaci'nus. Gills dirty watery white, not numerous, four in a 
set: pileus pinky brown, nearly flat, edge turned down: stem 
cylindrical, buff, with brown scales. 
Schcef. 36. 5. 6. 7. 
Gills decurrent, brownish watery white, strong and fleshy, not numerous, 
four in a set. 
Pileus pale pinky brown, from two and a half to four inches over, nearly 
flat, but a little bossed in the centre, and the edge turned down. When 
full grown quite flat, the central projection disappearing; when old 
quite funnel-shaped. Surface clammy when wet, satiny when dry. 
Flesh brownish white. 
Curtain in the young plants composed of whitish cobweb-like, straight 
threads, stretched from the stem over the edge of the pileus, and leaving 
a permanent dark-coloured mark on the stem. 
Stem solid, buff, yellow at the top, flecked with brown scurfy scales below, 
three to four inches high, half to one inch diameter, nearly cylindrical, 
seldom quite straight. 
This plant ought to have retained Schaeffer’s trivial name of glutinosus, as 
he first figured and described it, but Mr. Curtis having given that name 
to another more common English species, which he has well figured and 
described, I thought it better to take the name of Scopoli, which has 
been adopted by Mr. Dickson. 
(Slimy Agaric. E.) Ag. velatus. With. Ed. 2. Fir plantations at Barr. 
Staffordshire. Sept. 1791. 
Ag. vela'tus. Gills grey white, much branched: pileus convex, en¬ 
tirely covered by the membranaceous curtain. 
Sowerby 7«^Sch(rff, 36.1. 2. 3. 4. 
