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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
(Brown-scaled Agaric. E.) Ag. vaccinus. SchaefF. Plantations in Edg- 
baston Park. 13th Sept. 1791. 
Var. 2. Pileus yellow brown with dark blotches: stem yellowish,, scored. 
In Packington Park. Autumn. 
Ag. sor/didus. (Dicks.) Gills brown, eight in a set: pileus darker 
brown, hollow : stem cylindrical, brown, bulbous. 
Bolt. 50 — Dicks, t. 3.f 1 —(Sowerby 363, with the exception of the hollow 
stem. E.) 
GUIs fixed, dead brown, four or eight in a set, moderately numerous. 
Pileus brown, darker than the gills or stem, and still darker in the centre ; 
funnel-shaped, one and a half to two and a half inches over. 
Stem solid, brown cylindrical, but a little swollen at the base to form the 
root, two to four inches high, one-eighth to one-fourth diameter. 
Ag. stipitatus, pileo et lamellis Uvidofuscis, centro umbilicato, margine deflexo, 
stipife hasi crassiore. —Obs. Pileus totus fuliginosus. Dicks. Ease. Crypt. 
p. 16. 
(Sordid Agaric. E.) Ag. sordidus. Bolt, and Dicks. Pastures, Edgbas- 
ton. Nov. 
Pastures and commons near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. Woods near 
Bath. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Ag. spongio'sus. Gills cool brown, serrated: pileus chocolate colour, 
widely conical: stem cool brown : ring permanent. 
Gills fixed, tearing from the stem ; light brown : four in a set. 
Pileus bluntly conical, dark chocolate colour, edged with white spots the 
remains of the curtain ; one and a half to two inches over. 
Stem solid, but very spongy in the central part; light brown, scored, two to 
two and a half inches high, near half an inch diameter, thicker down¬ 
wards. 
(Spongy Agaric. E.) Packington Park, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ag. clava'tus. Gills pale brown: pileus dark brown, flat, the edge 
turned in: stem light grey, reticulated, club-shaped. 
GUIs fixed, brown, few, in pairs, very small. 
Pileus dirty dark brown, flat, but a little depressed, the edge turned in; 
three quarters of an inch diameter. 
Stem solid, light grey, reticulated with darker scores, club-shaped, two or 
two and a half inches high, thick as a goose quill at the top, but more 
than twice that size towards the bottom. 
(Reticulated Club-shaped Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Avlesford’s 
park, Packington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ag. umbra'tus. Gills brown, numerous, four in a set: pileus pale 
yellow, centre brown, edge white: stem white. 
Bull. 574. 2. 
Gills fixed, brown, crowded, four in a set, partly tearing from the stem as 
the pileus attains its full size. 
Pileus pale yellow, brown in the centre, insensibly changing to white to¬ 
wards the edge ; convex, irregular, bossed, edge turned in, one and a half 
to two inches over. Flesh white, pithy. 
