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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakictjs. 
Ag. perona'tus. (Bolt.) Gills pale watery straw colour, four in a 
set: pileus brown, hemispherical, semi-pellucid : stem, its lower 
half clothed with yellow wool. 
Soiverhy 37— Bolt. 58. 
Gills fixed, few, thin, narrow, pellucid, four in a set. 
Pileus like a mixture of brown and white wool, thin, without flesh. 
Stem solid, firm, tough, pale straw colour, upper part cylindrical, smooth, 
lower half surrounded with a cottony or woolly substance of a bright 
yellow colour; three inches high, thick as a raven quill. Bolton. 
(Spatterdash Agaric. E.) Ag. peronatus. Bolt. A rare species. In 
the deep and moist parts of woods near Halifax. Bolt. In the Abbey 
Wood, at Flixton, Suffolk, and Earsham Wood, Norfolk. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. 
War. 2. Gills pale brownish yellow; pileus and stem pale yellow. 
Schaff. 77. 
Gills numerous, narrow. 
Pileus whitish, flat, thin, edge turned down, one or one inch and a half 
over. 
Stem solid, cylindrical, whitish yellow, near two inches high, thick as a 
raven’s quill. Smells like hawthorn. Description and drawing from 
Mr. Stackhouse. 
Ag. caryopyllceus. Schseff. Woods near Bath. 
War. 3. Gills pale whitish yellow: pileus yellowish white, flat; stem 
tapering upwards, rust-coloured and woolly below. 
Bull 158. and 524. 1. 
Gills unequal. 
Pileus flat, one inch over, often depressed in the middle and waved at the 
edge. 
Stem solid, three or four inches high, thick as a duck’s quill, and covered 
with rust-coloured wool below, tapering and thinner upwards. It has 
a strong smell of garlic. Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Mr. Purton suspects this variety, Ag. alliaceus of Bull, should rather be¬ 
long to our species of the same name, though that has a hollow stem; 
but Sowerby asserts that it is often found solid.'E.) 
Woods near Bath. Mr. Stackhouse. Bagley Wood, Oxfordshire, the Hon. 
Mr, Wenman. 
*Ag. cedemato'pus. (Schseff.) Gills pale brownish yellow, few, 
fleshy, in pairs: pileus reddish brown, conical, edge turned in : 
stem dirty brown, thickest in the middle. 
Bolt. 43— Schoeff. 259; colours richer .— (Not Bull. 76 ; nor Batsch. 15—- 
PI. Dan. 833. 1. is Ag. aurantius .) 
Gills fixed, pale yellow, narrower, brittle, crumpled. 
Pileus dusky reddish brown, conical, edge turned in, crumpled, waved, 
splitting, two inches from the edge to the top of the cone. Flesh thick, 
dry, white. 
Stem solid, brown grey, hard, dry, brittle, thickest in the middle, five or 
six inches high, and one inch or more in diameter in the thickest part. 
Bolton. 
(Conical Swollen-stemmed Agaric. E.) Ag. cedematopus. Schseff. 
Ag. rigidus. Bolt. Plantations and woody grounds about Fixby Hall. 
July, August. 
