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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Pileus brown, satiny, shining, convex, two and a half inches over. 
Flesh very thick, white. 
Stem solid, white, satiny, cylindrical, rarely straight, two inches high, half 
an inch diameter. 
I have not observed either a curtain or a ring. 
The whole substance very strong and elastic. It grows single or in clusters. 
Under the large oak by the bolt of the square stew, Edgbaston Park. 
18th Sept. 
Var. 3. Pileus rather conical, brown chesnut, very viscid: stem whitish, 
cylindrical: curtain white, fugacious. 
Gills fixed, white, four in a set. 
Pileus edge turned in, two inches over, entirely covered with a viscid 
matter, which drying preserves its brightness like varnish. Flesh white. 
Stem cylindrical, above where the curtain was attached white and scurfy, 
below stained with the colour and the varnish of the pileus ; two to two 
and a half inches high, quarter of an inch or more in diameter. 
Partakes of the toughness and elasticity of the other varieties, which seems 
owing to its outer coat, which is both tough and elastic, readily stripping 
from the flesh which is rather tender and brittle. 
In clusters, on the roots of fallen firs, in dry plantations at Edgbaston. 
Oct. 
Ag. obsoles'cens. Gills white, four in a set: pileus dull pink, con¬ 
vex : stem pinky brown, cylindrical. 
Batsch 102. 
Gills slightly fixed, whitish, large ones about thirty-six. 
Pileus dull brown pink, convex, but flatted and somewhat depressed when 
old, one to one and a half inch over. 
Stem solid, but pithy ; pinky brown, cylindrical, one to one and a half inch 
high, thick as a goose quill. 
(Pinky Brown Agaric. E.) Ag. obsolescehs. Batsch. In the park at 
Packington, Warwickshire. 
Ag. stip'itis. Gills brown white, four in a set: pileus cool brown, 
darker and woolly in the centre: stem pale brown, with a huffy 
tinge, thicker and bulbous at the base : ring white, permanent. 
(Sowerhy 101. E.)— Bolt. 136— Mich. 81.2. 
Gills fixed, quite white, narrow, thin, pliable. 
Pileus at first bluntly conical, then nearly flat, almost white at the edge, 
cracking very much through the whole substance, but not turning up, 
two to four inches over. 
Stem cool brown, three to four inches high, half an inch diameter. Curtain 
thick, tough, cottony, white. 
(Stump Agaric. E.) Ag\ fusco-pallidus. Bolt. Edgbaston Grove, where 
large trees had been fallen four or five years before. 2d Oct. 17.91. 
Var. 2. Gills brown white, four in a set: pileus rich brown : stem pinky 
or brownish white, tapering at the base : ring yellowish. 
FI. Dan. 1013— Schceff.Hb. 
Gills strong, white, changing to huffy brown. 
Pilehsui first bluntly conical, dark reddish brown and woolly at the apex, 
the edge olive brown ; afterwards a more uniform rich brown. 
