CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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edge of the pileus turning in so as greatly to lessen the usual distance 
between it and the stem. These gills are more irregular than those of 
any other Agaric I have examined, for they are much branched at both 
ends, and these branches inosculate with one another so as to form a net 
work, not only upon the stem, but also under the edge of the pileus. 
Pileus brown, or reddish buff, clammy or satiny, nearly flat, but the edge 
at all times much turned in, and woolly, diameter three to four inches. 
Flesh yellowish. 
Stem solid, buff in the middle, brown below, yellow at the top, nearly 
cylindrical, one and a half inch long, one inch diameter: somewhat 
eccentric. 
The general habit of this plant induces me to place it here, but the want of 
milky juice would rank it as a variety of Ag. contiguus ; knowing how¬ 
ever that those plants most abounding with milk are sometimes without 
it, (as I have particularly found in the Ag. xerampelinus ,) I think it very 
possible that more favourable circumstances may prove that it is really a 
milky species. 
Under large Spanish chesnut trees, in the Park at Edgbaston. 
6th Aug. 1791. 
Ag. ful/vus. (Bolt.) Gills pale yellow, not numerous, four in a set: 
pileus red buff, conical, changing to convex and bossed, the edge 
at length turning up : stem whitish, cylindrical. 
Bull. 56 — Schoeff. 50 and 54 —(Sowerhy 143— Grev. Scot. Crypt. 91 ? E.) 
Gills pale yellow, decurrent, not numerous, four in a set, but the small 
teeth often excluded, and the larger ones branching and inosculating near 
the edge of the pileus. 
Pileus red buff, most red in the centre, paler with age, at first bluntly 
conical, the edge turned in, then nearly flat, but bossed in the centre, at 
length the edge turns up and tears. Flesh white, thin, semi-transparent. 
Stem solid, cylindrical, but taper, and bent towards the root, white or very 
pale buff, or very dilute yellow, one and a half to three inches high, one 
to half an inch diameter. 
(Tawny Inosculating Agaric. Ag. pallidus and ochroleucus. Schaeff. 
Ag. fulvus. Bolt. Ag. pratensis. Grev.? E.) On the bank by the side of 
the long stew, Edgbaston Park. Oct. 
(6) Gills purple. 
Ag. amethys'tinus. (Huds.) Gills purple, two, three, or four in a 
set: pileus purple, convex : stem pale purple, cylindrical. 
(Sowerhy 187. E.)— Bull. 198 and 570 —(hut Schoeff. 13, which he quotes , is a 
different plant.') 
Gills but slightly decurrent, beautiful violet purple, not numerous, two in a 
set in the smallest, three and four in the larger plants. 
Pileus purple, smooth, convex, with age the middle a little hollowed, one 
to two inches diameter. 
Stem solid, irregularly hollow when old, pale purple cylindrical, smooth, 
two to three inches long, thick as a rayen or goose quill. 
Stem often crooked. Pileus sometimes bossed. Differs essentially from 
Ag. violaceus in habit as well as colour. Mr. Stackhouse. Our plant per¬ 
fectly agrees with Mr. Hudson's character, and also with a more explicit 
description by Vaillant, p, 67. 
