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CRYPTO GAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
The whole pileus soon turns up appearing 1 like a rummer glass. It is rare 
to detect it with the pileus otherwise than turned up, so that its convex 
or flat state is probably of short continuance. 
(Rummer-shaped Agaric. E.) Plantations in Edgbaston Park. 
5th Nov. 1790. 
Ag. ii/litus. Gills buff, narrow, few, four in a set: pileus nearly flat, 
leathery, livid tawny; stem buff, rather thick. 
Gills fixed, light buff, four in a set, but irregular, very narrow, very thinly 
set, curling up in drying, and adhering so closely to the under surface of 
the pileus, by means of a gelatinous matter with which the plant abounds, 
that each gill assumes the appearance of a hollow tube. 
Pileus tawny, inclining to a leaden hue, smooth, of a thick leathery texture, 
but not fleshy, one inch and a half in diameter. 
Stem solid, light buff, thick for the size of the plant. Major Velley. 
(Narrow-gilled Agaric. E.) In a pine grove by the sham castle on 
Claverton Down, near Bath, but rare. Major Velley. In Packington 
Park, Warwickshire. 
Ag. ru'ber. Gills buff, four in a set: pileus orange red, flat, border 
turned down: stem reddish, cylindrical: juice milky, mild. 
Gills fixed, pale buff, numerous, four in a set. 
Pileus full brick red, to chesnut, flat; but the centre depressed, and the 
edge turned down; one to two inches over. 
Stem solid, red, cylindrical, strong, two inches high, three-eighths dia¬ 
meter. 
(Red Milky Agaric. E.) Specimen, drawing, and description, from 
Mr. Stackhouse, who found it in woods near Bath; Combe Green. 
Oct. 1788. 
*Var. 2. Stem much paler than the pileus: juice yellow. 
Bolt. 9 — Bull. 567. 2. 
Ag. theiogale. Bull. Woods about Halifax. Oct. Mr. Bolton. 
(5) Gills yellow. 
Ag. conna'tus. Gills brown yellow: pileus pale yellow, centre darker: 
stem yellow brown. 
Gills fixed, brown yellow, four in a set. 
Pileus yellow, convex, rather bossed; centre darker, one to one and a half 
inch over. 
Stem solid, yellow upwards, browner and darker below, two inches high, 
thick as a goose quill. 
(Brown Yellow Agaric. E.) Grows in clusters, in Lord Aylesford’s 
park, Packington. Autumn. 
*Var. 2. Gills pale yellow; pileus pale yellow, centre tawny: stem dirty 
buff. 
Bolt. 148 — {Mich. 79. 4. is a very different plant; and Sterh. 25. more like 
Ag. fascicularis .) 
Varies much in size. It is a rare species. 
Gills fixed, arched, narrow, pale yellow, four in a set. 
Pileus convex, thin, half an inch to two inches over. Curtain pale yellow, 
fugacious. 
