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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agarics 
(Golden Funnel Agaric. E.) Ag. tubcsformis. SchaefF. Trunks of old 
trees. June. Dick. fasc. 1. 15. 
Ag. contigWs. (Bull.) Gills yellow, very numerous, mostly 
branched, and inosculating where they join the stem: pileus 
cinnamon, nearly flat, edge woolly, greatly turned in: stem 
brown, streaked. 
{Soiverby 56. E;)— Batsch. 61— Bull. 210. 
Gills a little decurrent, yellow, changing to a watery brown, very numerous, 
most of them branched, and, where they join the stem, reticulated. 
Pileus cinnamon colour, nearly flat, but a small rising in the centre; the 
edge very much rolled and clothed with a considerable quantity of pale 
brown woolly substance ; diameter four or five inches. Flesh yellowish 
white, changing when cut to a reddish brown. 
Stem solid, pale brown, with dark bloody streaks, nearly cylindrical, two 
and a half inches high, half an inch diameter. 
The flesh of the stem changes like that of the pileus, when exposed to the 
air. Our plant exactly agrees with the excellent plate of M. Bulliard, 
except that our stems are longer and less uniformly coloured. 
(Woolly-edged Agaric. Ag. contiguus. Bull. Ag. involutus. Batsch. 
Fir plantations at Barr, Staffordshire. 12th Sept. 1791. 
Pine groves, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. 
Var. 2. Gills pale brown, numerous, four in a set: pileus red brown, convex, 
edge rolled in, a velvety belt above it: stem crooked. 
Bolt. 55. 
I think this must belong to this place, notwithstanding the gills are said to 
be pale brown. 
Ag. adscendens. Bolt. In the Burks, and other woods, about Halifax. 
Sept. Oct. Mr. Bolton. 
Ag. necVtor. (Bull.) Gills pale yellow, mostly in pairs; pileus 
buff, flattish, centre hollow and deeper coloured; edge rolled in, 
woolly: stem inversely conical: milky juice extremely burning 
and acrid. 
Bull. 529. 
Gills decurrent, pale yellow, mostly in pairs; the long ones frequently 
forked. 
Pileus buff, flat, but concave and deeper coloured in the centre, edge turned 
down, rolled inwards towards the stem, and densely covered with a large 
quantity of cottony or woolly substance, so as nearly to obscure the 
gills, some of these curled fibres when stretched out being nearly one- 
third of an inch long. Flesh pithy, white. 
Stem solid, pale buff, inversely conical, eccentric, crooked, one and a half 
inch long, full three-quarters of an inch diameter in the middle, with age 
becoming irregularly hollow. 
Mr. Stackhouse, who sent me this specimen, says, “ the whole of the 
exterior of this plant, which was of a dirty yellowish hue, appeared to 
be composed of woolly fibres filled with a glutinous dew.” 
(Deadly Agaric. Ag. necator. Bull. Pers. Purt. E.) Near Woolhope, 
Herefordshire. 11th Aug. 1791. 
Var. 2. Gills much branched and inosculating; pileus brown buff: stem 
very short and thick. 
Gills decurrent, numerous, pale yellow, short for the size of the plant, the 
