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CRYPTOGAM! A. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Ball. 439. the lower figures. 
Gills fixed, cool brown, numerous, tender, four or eight in set. 
Pileus cool brown, convex, regular, sinking in the centre when old, viscid 
when moist, satiny when dry, two to three inches over. Flesh spongy, 
white. 
Stem solid, cool brown ; one and a half inch high, thick as a raven quill. 
Buliiard has figured several varieties in the plate referred to above, but I 
think the upper figures ought to rank under Ag. violaceus , notwithstand¬ 
ing the want of a curtain. 
(Drab-coloured Agaric. We are not able to discover any difference 
between this species and Ag. unicolor of With, former editions. E.) Plan¬ 
tations, Edgbaston. 13th Sept. 
Ag. subpurpuras'cens. Gills reddish brown: pileus brown, pur¬ 
plish, at the edge; stem violet-coloured, scurfy, bulbous at the 
base. 
Batsch 7 4. 
Gills fixed, reddish brown, numerous, four or eight in a set, the surface 
when abraded assuming a purplish tinge. 
Pileus brown, of a pale leaden purple towards the edge, convex; two and 
a half inches over. Flesh white, changing to purple when exposed to the 
air. 
Stem solid, of a leaden purple, more or less streaked with brown, two and 
a quarter inches high, three-eighths diameter, swelling at the base into 
an oblong bulb. Curtain fugacious ; leaving a stain on the stem. 
(Purplish Bulbous Agaric. Ag. purpurascens. Batsch. E.) Ag. gnapha- 
cephalus. Bull. Pastures, Edgbaston. Sept.—Oct. 
( 3 ) Gills purplish. 
Ag. glauco'pus. (SchaefF.) Gills brown, changing with age to a 
pinky or lilac tinge, four to eight in a set: pileus chesnut, semi- 
globular, rather flatted at top, edge rolled in ; stem thick, white 
or pinky: curtain cobweb-like. 
Bull. 96; the habit excellent — Schaeff. 53 —( Soiverhy 223. E.) 
Gills fixed, brown, when old changing to a pinky or lilac colour, small for 
the size of the plant, four in a set in the younger, eight in the older 
specimens. 
Pileus uniform, pale chesnut, covered with a very glutinous varnish ; semi- 
globular, but a little flatted at the top, and the edge considerably turned 
in ; four inches over. Flesh white, with a pinky tinge. 
Stem solid, whitish, with a pinky or lilac tinge, two inches long, one inch 
diameter. Root very large, bulbous. 
Curtain like a fine cobweb, whose threads extend from the stem to the edge 
of the pileus. 
Bay Syn. p. 3.n. 13, has been referred to for this plant, and also for Ag. 
violaceus of Linnaeus; but though the general description perfectly accords 
with this species, yet the white gills, which are repeatedly mentioned, 
satisfy me that it is a plant different from this as well as from the 
violaceus , which it in no respect resembles, except merely in the colour of 
the stem. Major Velley justly remarks, that this plant of Dillenius agrees 
