CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Gills fixed, white, mostly uniform, fleshy, moderately thick set, yellowish 
with age. 
Pileus crimson, pink, lilac, or tawny brown, changing to dirty yellow, or to 
lead colour; often glutinous, regularly convex, and scored at the edge 
which turns up when old; from one to four inches over. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, one and a half to two and a half inches high, 
half to three quarters of an inch diameter. 
(Crimson Uniform Agaric. E.) Ag. stipitatus , lamellis omnibus magni - 
tudine cequalibus . FI. Suec. 1230. Ray Syn. p. 4. n. 1G. 
This is a very common Agaric, and one of the most beautiful, but its 
evanescent and varying tints, as well as the great differences in its size, 
are apt to puzzle young botanists. The skin of the pileus is very ready 
to strip off. Snails are fond of this species. 
Var. 2. Gills uniform, connected by cross threads; pileus pink to lilac. 
Bolt. 1— Schaff. 58—75—92, are all representations of this plant* — Battar. 
15. C‘ E. — FI. Dan . 1009. 1. a young plant.—Batsch 13— Sterb. 22. F. 
Pileus plano-convexus, vix carnosus, pallidus aut sanguineus, margine supra 
sulcato punctisque striato, a lamellis versus marginem interiorem eapituli ab 
initio denticulato connexis. Lamellae pallidoe et notanter omnes integral s. 
equates. Stipes magnus, albus. FI. Suec. 1230. (3. Ray Syn. 3. n. 7. and 
n. 9. 
Ag. russula, roseus, et ruber. Schaeff. Ag. integer. Bolt. Ag. sanguineus. 
Batsch. Ag. integer. FI. Dan. Pastures, particularly under trees. 
Aug.—Nov.t 
Var. 3. Gills mostly uniform, yet with a shorter one sometimes intervening; 
connected by cross threads: pileus crimson. 
Schceff. 15—1G. 
This, the most common one, is found in similar situations and seasons with 
the former. The threads of ligaments connect the gills with each other 
and with the pileus. They are white, and are mostly found close to the 
inside of the pileus. Ray Syn. p. 3. n. 7. probably this plant. 
Ag. emeticus. Schaeff. 
Var. 4. Gills often forked, sometimes at both ends, and inosculating with 
those on each side: pileus blood red. 
Bull. Ag. sanguineus. 
Stem a kind of horny coat filled with a spongy matter: more obvious in this 
than in the other varieties, but I can find no other difference. 
Pastures, particularly under large oaks, Edgbaston. 10th Aug. 
Var. 5. Pileus delicate grey, changing to lead colour. 
* The gills in most of Schaeffer’s plates of this species are erroneously drawn; a* 
his own descriptions prove. Thus in pi. 58, 92. he particularly describes the gills as 
equal , but in the figure they are of two different lengths, except only in pi. 92, 
f. 2. The same may be said of pi. 93, 94. where they are described as equal, but 
figured of two or even three different lengths. I do not know that these varieties, viz. 
Schasff. 93, 94. have yet been seen in England. 
f (This Fungus is said to be deleterious, exciting vomiting and other alarming symp¬ 
toms. E.) 
