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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Herefordshire. Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. Ham of square 
stew, Edgbaston. 17th Oct. Tettenhall plantations. July. 
Var. 6. Pileus clammy, dirty yellow, rather convex: gills yellowish, uni¬ 
form. 
Gills, fixed, perfectly uniform, yellow or yelloivish white. 
Pileus convex, centre hollow when fully expanded, viscid, yellow; in some 
specimens quite yellow in tire centre, huffy on the sides, and with still 
more of a reddish tinge at the edgefour inches over. 
Stem solid, but spongy; white, or yellowish white, tapering upwards, two 
inches high, and one inch diameter. 
There is little doubt but Hudson’s luteus, rejecting the synonym ofVail- 
liant is a variety of integer. Mr. Woodward. 
Ag. luteus. Huds. who remarks the affinity of this to Ag. integer , and I 
suspect that its differences arise from growing in the shade of trees. 
Meadows and pastures under trees and in groves. Aug. Oct. Under a 
large oak in Edgbaston Park. 10th July, 1792. At Woolhope, Here¬ 
fordshire. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Var. 7. Pileus dirty yellowish or reddish: gills very white, unequal: juice 
milky, mild. 
Drawing and description from Mr. Stackhouse, who found it on Coplar 
Hill, near Hereford. 
Var. 8. Pileus and stem of a fine uniform purple blue. 
At the foot of St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol. * Oct. 
Var. 9. Pileus greenish, rather reddish in the centre. 
Packington Park, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
(Ag. pr^etext'us. Gills watery white, numerous, four in a set : 
pileus red chesnut, edged with white, convex: stem white above, 
brown yellow below. 
Gills fixed, watery white, numerous, narrow, four in a set; the long ones 
sometimes appearing a little decurrent from being broader at the shoulder 
than elsewhere. 
Pileus convex, colour nearly that of a very red horse-chesnut, bordered by a 
■white edge; two and a quarter inches over. Flesh thick, yellowish white. 
Stem solid, but spongy, the substance often shrinking so as to leave an 
irregular hollow : cylindrical, white upwards, dirty yellow brown below ; 
two to three inches high ; half an inch diameter, often compressed at the 
base from growing in clusters. 
Curtain formed of numerous white cobweb-like threads extending from the 
edge of the pileus to the stem, and breaking as the former expands; not 
leaving any permanent ring or mark upon the stem. 
(White-edged Agaric. E.) This new Agaric was found on decayed oak 
timber in a damp situation at Edgbaston. Oct. E.) 
Ag. punx'ceus. Gills white, four in a set: pileus pinky, convex : 
stem white. 
Gills fixed, white, rather numerous, four in a set. 
Pileus convex, dull pinky red, clothy, sometimes a little bossed; nearly 
flat when fully expanded, quarter to three quarters of an inch over. 
Stem solid, white, often crooked, about one inch high, and thick as a crow 
quill. 
