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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaeicus. 
Var. 3. Very large: stem full one inch diameter, both it and the curtain 
tinged with bright yellow. Mr. Stackhouse. 
* Ag. coralloi'des. (Scop.) Gills whitish, small, few: pileus tawny 
red, convex, smooth: stem whitish, thickest in the middle. 
Battar 9. F— Scop. Subt. 35. 
Gills decurrent, thinly set. 
Pileus brownish, quarter of an inch over. 
Stem solid, dirty white, two to three inches high, quarter of an inch 
diameter. One root sends out several stems, and also several jagged 
substances, the imperfect rudiments of other stems. Scop. Battar. Dick¬ 
son Fasc. 1.16. 
(Coral-shaped Agaric. E.) In hollow trees. Oct. 
Ag. au'reus. Gills white, very short: pileus orange buff, tufted, 
semi-globular: stem buff. 
Bull. 92—( Sowerby 77. E.) 
Gills decurrent, white, very short, four in a set. 
Pileus orange buff, globular when young, semi-globular when expanded, 
two inches diameter, thinly sprinkled with small tufts of dark hair. 
Flesh uncommonly thick, buff-coloured. Curtain white. 
Stem solid, buff, two or three inches high, rather tapering downwards, near 
half inch diameter, crooked at the root. 
(Golden Agaric. Ag. rhaba^barinus. Pers. E.) Ag. aureus. Bull. In¬ 
serted on the authority of Dr. Sibthorpe, who found it in Shotover plan¬ 
tations, Oxfordshire. Sept. 
Ag. versi color. Gills yellow white, changing to dark red brown: 
pileus greenish buff, scurfy, convex, edge turned in: stem white, 
to brown : ring permament. 
Gills decurrent, yellowish white, changing when old to dark brown, two or 
four in a set. 
Pileus greenish buff, scurfy, most so in the centre, convex, becoming flat 
with age, but the edge much curled in ; one to four inches over. 
Stem solid, but spongy, white, changing to brown, thickest downwards, 
two inches high, thicker than a swan’s quill. Ring permanent. Root 
bulbous. 
(Changeable Agaric. E.) This is a rare species. I found it only once, 
and then near the bridge over the stream that feeds the large pool in 
Edgbaston Park. July 1792. 
Ag. odc/rus. Gills white, eight in a set; pileus glaucous green, nearly 
flat: stem white, cylindrical. 
Bull. 176—( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 28— Sowerby 42. E.) 
Gills decurrent, white, eight in a set; numerous, narrow. 
Pileus pale green, sometimes nearly white, sometimes bluish: nearly flat, 
but sometimes bossed ; from two to four inches diameter. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, one to one and a half inches high, as thick as 
a goose quill. 
# This mark is prefixed to such species and varieties as have not fallen under my 
own observation. 
