CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakicus. 
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Pileus , surface very uneven with large hollows and protuberances ; ground 
dirty white tinged and blotched with reddish brown, deeper on the 
central boss, sometimes set very sloping on the stem so as to be nearly 
parallel with it ; diameter four to six inches. Flesh spongy. 
Stem blotched, compressed, three quarters of an inch diameter at the top, 
deeply ribbed or furrowed, and tapering downwards to a point; four to 
five inches high. 
Ag. crassipes. SchsefF. Ag. fusipes. Bull. Growing in a large cluster, appa¬ 
rently from one root, at the foot of an oak tree, in contact with the wood, 
near the gate of the red rock plantation, Edgbaston. 25th Aug. 1792. 
(Spindle-stemmed Agaric. E.) Foot of trees, Woolhope, Herefordshire.. 
Mr. Stackhouse. At the base of decaying trees, frequent. Mr. W ood- 
ward. 
Ag. musca'mus. (Linn.) Gills white, short ones solitary; pileus 
brownish or reddish, convex: stem scaly: ring broad, turned 
down. 
Pileus large, rather flat, generally red, sprinkled with downy angular warts. 
Gills flat, inversely spear-shaped, mostly entire, the few shorter ones very 
blunt, and without other smaller ones on each side them, a circumstance 
peculiar to this species. Stem cylindrical, a cavity within it, * base bul¬ 
bous, warty, top expanded. Ring on the middle of the stem, loose, pen¬ 
dent. 
Varies with the pileus, white , red , or crimson , and warty. t 
Gills fixed, white, yellowish with age, numerous, mostly uniform, but a 
shorter one sometimes intervening. These shorter gills vary very much 
in length, but are rarely less than one-third the length of the long ones. 
Pileus varying much in colour, very fleshy, convex, turning up with age, 
two to seven inches over. Flesh white, reddish in decay. Warts raised, 
compact and angular ; or thin, flat, and ragged. 
Stem solid, the internal substance shrivelling with age leaves irregular 
hollows; scaly, bulbous at the base, three to five inches high, three 
quarters to one and a half diameter. 
Ring broad, permanent, turned down upon the stem. 
Ag. stipitatus, lamellis dimidiatis solitariis; stipite volvato , apice dilatato,. 
basi ovato. FI. Suec. 1235. 
(FlyAgaric. E.) This plant rises from the ground inclosed within its 
brown studded wrapper. ( Volva of some authors but not of Linn.) 
A section made vertically shows all the parts in their original position, 
and also the curtain (the real Volva of Linn.) which remains long after, 
forming, when torn by the expansion of the pileus, the broad ring upon 
the stem described above. Mr. Stackhouse justly observes that the warts 
* Only hollow, when old. 
Mixed with milk it kills flies. The expressed juice rubbed on walls and bedsteads 
expels bugs. Linn. (Poisonous, cathartic, sudorific. Serviceable in epilepsy and palsy, 
occasioned by repelled cuticular diseases. Dose gr. x to gr. xxx with vinegar. Externally 
the powder may be sprinkled on bad ulcers and gangrenes. Should be gathered in 
autumn, dried carefully, powdered, and preserved in a vessel closely shut. Swediaur.) 
This is the Moucho-more of the Russians and Kamschadales, who use it to produce 
intoxication, sometimes eaten dry, sometimes immersed in a fermented liquor made 
with Epilobium. This potion often produces convulsions, and greatly disorders the 
imagination; so that its effects urge them to suicide or other dreadful crimes, when they 
say they obey its commands. Encyc, Brit. E.) 
