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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakicus. 
Var. 2. Gills brown, mottled, edges and claws white ; four in a set: pileus 
buff’: stem yellowish white. 
Gills decurrent, brown, mottled, not very numerous, four in a set. The 
edge of the gills, and the portion of the long ones next to and decurrent 
on the stem, white. 
Pileus buff-colour, flattish, with a small pointed central boss, edge turned 
down, surface leathery, one to one and a half inch over. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, buffy white, glossy, variously bent, cylindrical, three inches 
high, thick as a raven quill, suddenly thickening at the top at its con¬ 
nection with the pileus. Flesh yellowish; but quite white in the centre. 
Curtain whitish, fugacious, sometimes leaving fragments on the edge of the 
pileus and on the stem. 
Pastures, Edgbaston. 20th May, 1792. 
(3) Gills red. 
Ag. carneq-al'bus. Gills salmon-coloured, not numerous, two or four 
in a set: pileus and stem white. 
Gills decurrent, salmon-coloured, mostly in pairs, narrow, not crowded. 
Pileus white, polished, centre rather depressed, edge turned down, about 
one inch over. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, about one inch high, thick as a crow quill. 
(Salmon-gilled Agaric. E.) Drawing and description from Mr, 
Stackhouse. 
Ag. rosei/lus. (Batsch.) Gills pinky red, few, four to eight in a 
set: pileus brown red: flesh red: stem pinky red. 
Batsch. 99. 
Gills decurrent, deep pinky red, not numerous, four in a set, but sometimes 
eight from the intervention of other little teeth. 
Pileus brown red, rather scurfy, convex, but a little hollowed in the centre; 
three quarters to one and a quarter of an inch diameter. Flesh thin, red. 
Stem solid, pinky red, cylindrical, but thickening at the rop, thick as a crow 
quill, one and a half to two inches long. In a section of it, the central 
part is less compact and paler than the outside. 
This elegant little Agaric is seldom found in full perfection, as it soon 
shrivels and loses its brilliant colours, but it does not quickly decay. 
(Pinky Red Agaric. E.) Ag. rosellus. Batsch. Amongst old alder stumps, 
in the alder plantations, Edgbaston. 2d Oct. 1791. 
Ag. jecori/nus. Gills pinky liver colour, numerous, in pairs: pileus 
pinky brown, satiny, flat: stem pinky above, yellowish below, 
tapering downwards. 
Gills decurrent, rich pinky liver coloured, with age blacker at the edges, 
and deep tan-leather colour at the sides; in pairs: the small gill varying 
in size, but very small in proportion to the large one; the large gill 
sometimes forked. 
Pileus pinky brown, convex and bossed when young, flat and more liver- 
coloured when older, but the edge always turned in ; surface smooth, 
shining, satiny, from three to five inches over. Flesh pinky white. 
Stem solid, spongy, pinky brown upwards, yellow brown below, tapering 
downwards, rarely straight, two to three inches high, half to one inch 
diameter. Flesh fine rhubarb yellow. 
