CRYPTOG AMI A. FUNGI. Agarictjs. 
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Gills somewhat decurrent, whitish, with a mixture of ash-colour, twice and 
sometimes oftener branched, so that the number counted at the margin is 
at least four times the number counted at the stem. 
Pileus varies from ash-coloured to brown or yellowish white. 
Curtain at first clear and transparent, resembling a thin bladder, entirely 
covering the pileus and connected with the stem, on which it leaves a 
spurious ring. It remains in threads round the edge of the pileus, and at 
length entirely disappears. This curious kind of curtain seems peculiar 
to this species. 
Stem solid, brown, paler upwards, largest at the base. 
(Veiled Agaric. E.) Ag. glutinosus. SchgefF and Sowerby. Pine groves 
atEarsham Broome, and Kirby, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Plantations 
at Packington, Warwickshire. 
Ag. cumula'tus. Gills white, four in a set: pileus reddish brown, 
woolly, and tufted: stem yellow brown or olive, bulbous at the 
base ,' Ring woolly, permanent. 
Bolt. 141— Bull . 377. but more of a red cast than our specimens. Bolt. 140. 
in a less advanced state of growth. 
Gills decurrent, white, edges reddish brown when the seeds begin to be 
discharged; not very numerous, four in a set, shortest series very short. 
Pileus reddish brown, darkest in the centre, convex, from three to six inches 
over, woolly and tufted, edges turned in, but cracking with age and 
turning up. Flesh spongy, white, thin at the edge. 
Stem solid, olive brown below, reddish brown above the ring, with whitish 
streaks; four to six inches high one-third to half an inch in diameter, 
seldom straight: thickest downwards, bulbous at the base. 
Ring permanent, tough, woolly, yellowish white, turned down on the 
stem. 
(Crowded Agaric. E.) Should this in its younger state appear to be 
veiled by the curtain like the preceding, it may rank only as a variety of 
that, but I have never found it with such an appearance. 
Ag. annularius. Bull. Ag. congregatus and melleus. Bolt. In the grove, 
Edgbaston, on stumps of trees which had been cut down rather below 
the level of the ground. It grew in prodigious quantities; in some 
places, as many together as would have filled half a bushel. Oct. 
Var. 2. Gills four or eight in a set, by their decurrence streaking the top 
of the stem quite down to the ring: pileus wrinkled or plaited at the 
edge. 
FI. Ban. 1013— Schoeff. 74. 
This differs very little from the preceding, but from being less crowded in 
its growth assumes a more perfect form. By the more full expansion of 
the pileus some of the long gills separate from the stem, which causes 
the appearance of eight in a set in those parts ; and indeed in this species 
the extent of the decurrence of the long gills is very variable. The dis¬ 
charge of the seeds which tinges the edges of the gills, the ring, and the 
top of the stem of a rich red brown, seems always to begin in that part 
of the gill next to the stem. In the young and unexpanded plants or but¬ 
tons, the pileus is covered with a knap or frize of a brown glutinous wool, 
and the colour is that of an olive. 
Ag. obscurus. SchsefF. Ag. melleus. FI. Dan. Edgbaston lanes, on sandy 
hedge banks. Oct. 
