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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Gills fixed, few, narrow, brittle, in pairs. 
Pileus fox-colour, slightly convex, edge turned in, one to one and a half 
inch over. 
Stem solid, pale brown, nearly two inches high, three-quarters of an inch 
diameter at top, tapering downwards ; several clustered together and 
united near the root. 
Curtain narrow, dead white, soft, cottony. Substance dry, light, spongy, 
compressible, elastic. 
(Larch Agaric. E.) Takes root under the bark of decaying larch trees. 
In a small plantation at Lee Bridge, near Halifax. Packington Park. 
Autumn. 
*Ag. cyathqFdes. (Bolt.) Gills white, four in a set, changing to 
brownish white: pileus umber brown, flat, but soon turning up: 
stem grey white, with whiter reticulated veins. 
Bolt. 145 : (but none of the references.) 
Gills fixed. 
Pileus thin, smooth, silky, two or three inches over, soon turning up so as to 
form a funnel-like cup, which sometimes contracts partially into distinct 
cups. 
Stem solid, consisting of a strong rind, filled with a white spongy pith. 
Surface dusky white, marked with longitudinal reticulations of a whiter 
colour. Bolt. 
(Cupping Agaric. E.) Ag. cyathoides. Bolt. Grew under an old melon 
frame. Feb. 
Ag. zona'rius. (Bull.) Gills buffy white, four in a set, but irregular, 
and variously branched: pileus pale brown, with darker circles, 
gently convex, edge turned in: stem nearly cylindrical, buffy 
white. 
Schaff. 235, very exact to our specimens .— Bull. 104. the plant, but paler 
than ours—Sower by 203. 
Gills fixed, white, with a very pale buffy tinge, numerous, four in a set 
when regular, but the long ones often splitting, and then the smaller ones 
are excluded. 
Pileus pale brown, with concentric circles of a reddish brown, smooth, 
flattish at the top or rather a little depressed, sides bent down and a 
little turned in, one and a half to three inches over. Flesh white, thin. 
Stem solid, white, with a slight buffy or pinky tinge, cylindrical, or a little 
tapering downwards, rarely quite straight, or exactly central, one and a 
half inch high, half an inch diameter. 
Milk in the gills and cortical part of the pileus abundant, white, very 
acrid. 
(Concentric or Zone-like Agaric. E.) Ag.fuscus. Schaeff. Ag. lac - 
tifluus zonarius. Bull. Dam of the great pool in Edgbaston Park, plen¬ 
tifully, but I have not found it elsewhere. 4<th Aug. 
Var. 2. Pileus pale grey brown, white at the edge. 
Farther plantations, Edgbaston. Sept. 
Ag. integer. (Linn.) Gills white, mostly uniform: pileus of various 
tints : stem white. 
(Sowerby 201. E.) 
