CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Gills somewhat decurrent, buff colour, semi-transparent, thick set, four in 
a set, sprinkled over with a substance like brown sugar; probably the 
inspissated juice. 
Pileus mouse colour, dotted, concave, irregular at the edge, and more or less 
turned down and plaited. Three to four inches diameter. 
Mesh white, changing to a reddish tinge by exposure to the air. 
Stem solid, white, smooth, but not even, two inches long, more than half an 
inch diameter, gently tapering downwards. 
Juice milky, somewhat acrid, but not peppery. 
(Dotted Agaric. E.) Ag. lactifluus jplumbeus. Bull. Ag. livido-ruhescens. 
Batsch. Edgbaston plantations. Aug. 1791. 
Ag. a'cris. (Bolt.) Gills reddish buff, four in a set, branching: 
pileus cool brown, viscid, shining, sloping: stem whitish, shin¬ 
ing, eccentric. 
Bolt. 60. 
Gills decurrent, more so on one side the stem than on the other, pale brown 
buff, with a reddish tinge, very thick set, the long ones often inoscu-i 
lating. 
Pileus cool brown, viscid, shining, irregular, concave, two to three and a 
half inches diameter, set sloping on the stem. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, tapering downwards, flatted at the top, nearly white, shining, 
crooked, eccentric, one to one and a half inch long. 
From the-crooked stem and the sloping pileus it lies very close to the 
ground amongst the grass, and is much eaten by the large black snail. It 
abounds with white milky juice, very acrid to the taste. This species is 
nearly allied to Var. 2. Ag. Listen, and I have felt much inclined to con¬ 
nect it with that, but the differences are such that I think the investiga¬ 
tion will be facilitated by the present disposition, and further observation 
may determine more exactly whether that should be arranged as a variety 
under this species, or where it now stands. 
(Acrid Agaric. E.) Ag. acris. Bolt. 
Ag. cIjAvjefqk/mis. Gills pinky buff, very irregular: pileus brown 
buff, cracking: stem whitish. 
Schceff'. 307— Bull. 551.1. 
Gills decurrent, pinky buff, very irregular, not very numerous, the ends of 
the long ones frequently splitting; sometimes connected by cross liga¬ 
ments. 
Pileus buffy brown, irregularly convex, turning up and becoming flat and 
sometimes concave with age, cracking, fleshy, one to two inches over. 
Stem solid, whitish, thick as a goose quill, one to one and a half inch high. 
Flesh pale buffi 
In other specimens the pileus and stem run into each other, the latter 
being very thick upwards and gradually tapering downwards, as in Ag. 
ohesus. 
(Club-shaped Agaric. E.) Ag. clavaformis. Scheeff. Ag. ericetosus. 
Bull. Garden field, Edgbaston. 12th Oct. 1793. 
Ag. fib'ula. Gills buff: pileus orange or yellow brown, centre hollow: 
stem yellow. 
Bull, 186. 
Gills decurrent, full buff colour. 
Pileus orange or yellow brown, centre depressed, edges turned in, scarcely 
a quarter of an inch diameter. 
