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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Schceff 257. 
Gills fixed, pure white, fleshy, not numerous, two, three, or four in a set, 
but mostly four, the long ones sometimes forked; they are connected by 
white threads to the pileus and to each other. 
Fileus livid, watery white, edge first turned in towards the stem, then turn¬ 
ing up, irregular, cracking and tearing, centre bossed, surface scored, one 
to two inches over. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, white, crooked, nearly cylindrical, often compressed, rarely quite 
central, two inches high, full a quarter of an inch diameter. 
This has very much the habit of Ag. aurantius, but the solid stem, and the 
want of slimy surface distinguish it. The drawings of Schaeffer 257, are 
characteristic, but the colouring not very exact. 
(Torn Agaric. E.) Ag. lacer. Schseff. Edgbaston, after much gentle rain, 
by the long stew. 12th Oct. 1791. 
Ag. opa'cus. Gills white, numerous, two or four in a set : pileus dead 
white, nearly flat: stem white, pith brown. 
(Sowerly 142. E.) 
Gills fixed, white, very thick set, and very fine, in pairs or in fours. 
Fileus white, opake, smooth, nearly flat when expanded, but a little turned 
down at the edge, and a very small protuberance in the centre, cracking 
when old, and the skin readily peeling off, diameter one and a half to two 
inches. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, two inches high, one quarter of an inch dia- 
meter, filed with watery, and, when old, with a brownish pith. 
(Opake White Agaric. E.) Edgbaston Park. 
14th April, 1792—9th Sept. 1791. 
Ag. furfuro'sus. Gills watery white, two or four in a set, but irregular: 
pileus yellow brown, scaly; stem yellow brown, crooked, 
scored. 
Gills fixed, watery white, turning to a brownish cast with age, not nume¬ 
rous, two or four in a set, but very irregular. 
Fileus yellow brown, scaly, conical when young, turning up and cracking 
at the edge with age ; very uneven, not fleshy, half to three quarters of 
an inch over. 
Stem solid, yellowish brown, splitting, crooked, scored or rather fluted with 
longitudinal furrows, thick as a raven’s quill, three quarters to one inch 
high. Root a roundish knob. 
From the turning'up of the pileus and the grooves on the stem, the gills 
assume rather a decurrent appearance. 
(Branny Agaric. E.) Filbert hedge, Edgbaston gardens. 
18th June, 1792. 
Ag. cras'sipes. Gills white, brownish at the edges, fleshy, distant, 
four in a set: pileus reddish brown, bossed, cracking: stem 
greatly tapering downwards, ribbed. 
(Sowerhy 129. E.)— Schceff. 88. 1— Bull. 106. and 516. 2. but the boss not 
sufficiently marked, particularly in the latter plate — Schceff. 87. f. 1. 
2. 3. only ; the lower figures being a different plant. 
Gills white, thinner and rusty brown at the edges; in the larger specimens 
near an inch broad. 
