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CRYPTOGAM! A. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Gills decurrent, reddish brown, narrow, eight in a set. 
Pileus reddish brown, marked with concentric circles of a ^darker shade ; in 
general flat, but hollow in the centre, and waved and bent down at the 
edge, clothy to the touch, one and a half to three inches diameter ; 
sloping. 
Stem solid, reddish brown, whitish within, one to three inches long; near 
half inch diameter, nearly cylindrical, but rather thinner downwards, 
generally eccentric. 
(Reddish-brown Agaric. E.) Juice white like milk, hot and acrid like 
that of Mezereon or Cuckowpint. 
Ag. rubescens. Schseff*. Plantations, and pool dam, Edgbaston, in a clayey 
soil. Sept. 
Ag. sero'sus. Gills pale brown, numerous, four in a set: pileus cin¬ 
namon colour, flecked, gently convex, but sinking in the middle: 
stem cinnamon, smooth, crooked : juice like whey. 
Bull. 54. nearly resembles it, but the pileus does not sink in the middle. 
Gills a, little decurrent, brown, numerous, in fours, regular. 
Pileus cinnamon colour, fleckered with darker shades; gently convex, but 
a little hollowed in the middle, darkest in the hollow ; from one to two 
inches diameter. 
Stem solid, smooth, cinnamon coloured, central, crooked, cylindrical, two 
inches high, and three-eighths diameter. 
Juice dilutely milky, not acrid. 
(Fleckered Whey Agaric. E.) Pastures, Edgbaston. Oct. 1790. 
Ag. lactif'luus. (Linn.) Gills red brown : pileus dark red brown : 
stem buffy: juice white, milky, mild. 
Schceffl 5— ( Sowerby 204. E.) 
Gills decurrent, red brown, but paler than the pileus. 
Pileus rich red brown, nearly flat, four inches over. 
Stem solid, reddish buff*; two and a half inches high, three quarters of 
an inch diameter. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Ag. stipitatus. Pileo piano, cameo, lactescente; lamellis rufis; stipite longo, 
cameo. Linn. Sp. PI. 
Stem one to four inches high, reddish, somewhat thickest and brown at the 
base, paler and smaller upwards. 
Pileus of a deeper colour, from one to four inches broad, generally smooth, 
flattish but depressed in the centre, and bent in at the margin; some¬ 
times marked with one or two circles near the edge. 
Gills paler than the pileus; long ones sometimes branched at the base. 
The juice white, at first mild, but leaving a pungent taste on the tongue. 
Mr. Woodward. 
(Milky Agaric. E.) Ag. luctifluus. Schseff. Sent from Woolhope, Here¬ 
fordshire, by Mr. Stackhouse. Pine groves, near Bungay, Suffolk. Mr. 
Woodward. 
Var. 2. Pileus funnel-shaped: stem rich red brown, thinner downwards, 
with yellow bristly hairs at the base. 
Gills decurrent, red brown, numerous, eight in a set, long ones sometimes 
cloven, paler than the pileus; brittle. 
Pileus red brown, funnel-shaped, two to three and a half inches over. Flesh 
spongy, thin, reddish white. 
