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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakicus, 
upon the pileus being undoubtedly the remains of the wrapper, the 
same species may be sometimes smooth and sometimes warty, and that 
this circumstance cannot constitute even permanent varieties. 
Var. 2. Pileus white, warts yellowish: stem white. 
In this variety a short gill, or a gill of a third series, sometimes appears. 
Pileus but two inches diameter; stem two inches high. 
Edgbaston. 16th Sept. 1791. 
Var. 3. Pileus blood red, without warts. 
Bolt 27 — Schcejf. 28. 
Stem brownish white. 
Ag. muscarii , Var. Schaeff. Dry woods about Halifax, Yorkshire. Mr. 
Bolton. 
Var. 4. Pileus blood red, with white warts. 
( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 54. E.)—( Sowerby 286— FI. Dan. 1129. E.)— Ball. 
122— Schaeff'. 27— Clus. ii. 280 —Ger. Em. 1581. 3—J. B. iii. 841. 2— 
Park. 1321. S—Sterb. 22. A. 
Stem white. 
Ag. muscarius. Schaeff. Ag. Pseudo aurantiacus . Bull. ( Amanita muscaria. 
Pers. Hook. Grev. E.) Plantation, on the south bank of the upper 
pool at Hatton, near ShifFnal, Shropshire. 
(Under birch trees at Edgbaston. Found likewise under birch trees in 
Scotland by Mr. Gregory W att. Abundant in the Highlands of Scot¬ 
land. Grev. E.) June—Sept. 
War, 5. Pileus pale red, with reddish warts. 
Bull. 316— Schcejf. 261—Bolt. 139. 
Mr. Bulliard describes the gills as loose, but Mr. Bolton observes that 
they adhere by a small claw to the top of the stem. The latter says it 
has no wrapper; the former, that it has an imperfect one, which 
disappears in the progress of the growth of the plant; and such also is the 
opinion of Schaeffer. 
Stem white above, pinky below. 
Ag. myodes. Schaeffer. Ag\ verrucosus. Bull. Ag. myocles. Bolt. In a dry 
gravelly soil near Leebridge. 12th June, 1790. Mr. Bolton. 
War. 6. Pileus pinky brown, with whitish, flat, thin, ragged warts. 
Schcrff'. 90. f. 1. 3— but the drawing of the gills does not agree with the 
description. 
Warts irregular in shape, in clusters, light brownish colour and wrinkled, 
adhering slightly to the pileus, and may be rubbed off. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Ag. maculatus. Schaeff. 
War. 7. Pileus pinky brown, satiny, with small, angular, hard, greyish 
warts ; stem brownish white. 
Curt. 312— Schceff'. 90. 2. 4. and 91 ; ( but the drawing of the gills does not 
accord with our plant, nor with the author s own description.') Mich. 78. 1. 
Stem pinky brown, or browmish white. Ring reddish buff. Flesh white, 
acquiring a pinky tinge after being exposed to the air. 
The 6th and 7 th varieties constitute Ag. verrucosus of Mr. Hudson, who 
refers also to Haller 2397, which is a different plant, the same as Bauh. 
Hist. iii. 826. Sterb. 20. K. and Hay Syn. 731, 
