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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Var. 3. Pileus satiny, sometimes edged with white: stem white above and 
below. 
Gills rather fleshy, brown, four in a set, in the older plants rather decurrent. 
Pileus brown, edge turned down, centre peaked, half to three quarters of an 
inch diameter. Flesh brown. 
Stem satiny, crooked, two inches high, thick as a raven quill, marked with 
the vestige of a curtain ; irregularly hollowed with age. 
Red rock plantation, Edgbaston. 7th Sept. 1793. 
(Mr. Sowerby suspects both Ag. violaceus and glaucopus to be varieties of 
this species. E.) 
Ag. hippopi'nus. Gills light brown: pileus dark brown, convex: 
stem light brown. 
(,Sowerby 206 . E.) 
Gills fixed, light brown. 
Pileus dark brown, paler at the edge, nearly semi-globular, scarcely a quarter 
of an inch diameter. 
Stem solid, brown, quarter of an inch high, mostly crooked, thickness of a 
pin. 
(Cone Agaric. Ag. spinipes. Sowerby. Ag. conigenus. Pers. E.) On 
the cones of the Scotch fir, in the Earl of Aylesford’s park, at Packing- 
ton, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ag. rimo'sus. (Bull.) Gills olive brown, two or four in a set: pileus 
striped, reddish brown and yellow, conical, bossed: stem yellowish 
white, cylindrical. 
Bull. 388 ; also 599 —( Sowerby 323— Grev. Scot. Crypt. 128. E.) 
Gills fixed, olive brown, two or four in a set. 
Pileus conical bossed, striped red brown and yellow, by cracks extending 
from the edge to the base of the boss ; border uneven, two inches over ; 
tearing with age. 
Stem solid, yellowish white, cylindrical, but thickened just under the pileus, 
crooked, smooth, two to two and a half inches high, thick as a goose or 
swan quill. 
(Cracking Agaric. E.) Ag. rimosus. Bull. Under trees at Pendarvis. 
Mr. Stackhouse. Pastures, Edgbaston. 
Early in Aug. to the end of Sept. 
Ag. orichal'ceus. (Batsch.) Gills dark cinnamon, not numerous, 
four or eight in a set: pileus gently convex, pale cinnamon, 
edge rather turned down: stem whitish, nearly cylindrical. 
Batsch 184— Bull. 596. 1. 
Gills fixed to the stem by a claw, very broad, dark cinnamon, not very 
numerous, four iri a set in the smaller, eight in the larger specimens. 
Pileus regularly and gently convex, light cinnamon, sometimes darker in 
the centre, edge a little turned in, viscid in moist, satiny in dry weather; 
one to three inches over. Flesh white, not thick. Curtain evanescent, 
leaving a stain on the stem. 
Stem solid, whitish, with few brown scales, often stained by the fall of the 
seeds from the gills, which are of a Spanish snuff colour, cylindrical, but 
