CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agabicu*. 
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Gills fixed, brown, sometimes with a purplish cast. 
Pileus dark reddish brown, convex, turned up with age, the edge crumpled 
and distorted in various modes, two-eighths to three-eighths of an inch 
over. 
Stem solid, brownish, a quarter of an inch high, thinner than a swallow's 
quill. 
(Brown Crumpled Agaric. E.) Ag. iortilis. Bolt. Rich garden mould, 
about the roots of umbrageous plants. 
(4) Gills buff. 
Ag. fla'vidus. Gills reddish buff: pileus pale yellow, bossed: stem 
pale yellow. 
(,Sowerby 96. E.)— Schceff. 35. 
Gills fixed, deep buff, numerous, four in a set. 
JPileus pale yellow, bluntly conical, bossed, full two inches over. 
Stem solid, pale yellow, dark brownish at bottom, two inches high, thick as 
a swan's quill. Flesh yellowish. 
(Pale Yellow Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford’s park at Pack- 
ington. 
Var. 2. Gills brown buff, pileus light buff: stem white, flesh white. 
Possibly distinct. Gills broad, crumpled, waved at the edge. Pileus very 
convex, four inches over, edge turned in. Stem four or five inches high, 
near half an inch diameter, bulbous at the base. Flesh very thick, 
whitish. 
In Packington Park. 
Ag. ru'fus. Gills tawny, irregular: pileus bright tawny, glossy : 
stem red brown. 
Bull. 526 ; the upper figures, hut the pileus darker than in our specimens. 
Gills fixed, fox-coloured, not numerous, two, three, or four in a set, but 
mostly four. 
Pileus bright fox-colour, very glossy and satiny, bossed, the edge turned in; 
one to two inches and a half diameter. Flesh yellowish. 
Stem solid, dead reddish brown, darkening and becoming irregularly hollow 
with age ; generally crooked, two to three inches high, thick as a swan's 
quill. 
(Satiny Agaric. E.) Ag. sericeus. Bull, but that name had been given 
before by Schaeffer and Batsch to another plant. Plantations at Edg- 
baston, in clusters. Sept. 
Ag. calycifor/mis. Gills buff, very numerous, four or eight in a set: 
pileus brown buff, entirely inverted : stem pale brownish buff. 
Batsch 118, represents our plant, but the gills in ours are not split , nor have 
they the least degree of decurrence. 
GUIs fixed, buff, changing to snuff-coloured brown; very numerous, four or 
eight in a set. 
Pileus brownish buff, deepest in the centre, broad, thin, soon turning 
entirely up, one to two inches over. 
Stem solid, but becoming hollow with age, pale brownish buff, two inches 
high ; thick as a raven’s quill. 
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