CRYPT0GAM1A. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Pileus hemispherical, two or three inches diameter, greyish blue, dry, feels 
like coarse cloth. Flesh thick, firm, hard, brittle, white. 
Stem solid, dusky white, cylindrical, hard, three inches high, thick as a 
swan’s quill. Bolt. 
Fungus magnus viridis. Bay Syn. p. 2. n. 3. Ag. cceruleus. Bolt. p. 12. 
Var. 2. Gills whitish; stem greenish. 
(Large Green-topped Agaric. E.) Ag. viridis. Huds. 614. 16. exclud¬ 
ing the references to Haller and Schaeffer. 
In woods. Aug.—Oct. 
(2) Gills brown. 
Ag. constric'tus. Gills brown, in pairs: pileus yellow brown, bluntly 
conical: stem brown, scurfy : curtain permanent. 
Gills fixed, watery brown, tender, in pairs. 
Pileus yellow brown, bluntly conical approaching to globular, the edge 
being turned in, and held down by the curtain ; less than a quarter of an 
inch high. Curtain brown white, tough, permanent. 
Stem solid but pithy, brown, paler upwards, scurfy, thick as a thin crow 
quill, nearly three quarters of an inch high. 
(Brown Constricted Agaric. E.) Qn decayed wood; plantations, 
Edgbaston. Sept. 
Ag. muco'sus. Gills light brown, four in a set: pileus rich yellow, 
brown, flat but rather bossed: stem white above, yellow brown 
and woolly below : ring permanent. 
Schasff. 312 — Bull. 549, very stiff and unnatural. 
Gills fixed, light brown, four in a set. 
Pileus yellow brown, flattish, darker and rather bossed in the centre, about 
two inches diameter. 
Stem solid, above the ring white, below it brown and woolly, three inches 
high, three-eighths of an inch diameter. Ring permanent. Flesh brown 
white. 
The pileus and stem are remarkably viscid. 
(Brown Viscid Agaric. E.) Ag. limacinus. SchsefF. Ag. mucosus. Bull. 
In the Earl of Aylesford’s park at Packington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ag. vacci'nus. (Schaeff.) Gills pale brown, four or eight in a set: 
pileus brown, scurfy, convex, gently bossed: stem cylindrical, 
pale brown. 
Sckcejf. 25 ; very good. 
Gills fixed, pale, changing to reddish brown, white at the edge when young, 
eight in a set. 
Pileus brown, convex, slightly bossed, scurfy with scales of various shades 
of brown, one and a half to three inches over. 
Stem solid, cylindrical, brown, scored, three to four inches high, quarter to 
half an inch diameter, often crooked. 
Flesh of the whole plant white, attaining a reddish tinge when exposed to 
the air. 
