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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
me that that circumstance could not be relied on as a specific distinction. 
It is described and figured by Clusius as having been involved in a 
wrapper or volva, when young and about the size and shape of an egg. 
The curtain, and its remains on the stem in form of a broad permanent 
ring, are also noticed by the authors referred to above, so that notwith¬ 
standing the deficiency of these parts in our specimens, there can be no 
doubt of their existence in others. 
(Cesar's Agaric. Amanita Caesarea. Pers. E.) Ag. Caesarius. Schreff. 
and With. Ed. 2. Red Rock plantation, Edgbaston, 6th July, 1791; 
and in Sept. 1793. Fir plantations, Tettenhall, Staffordshire, amongst 
moss. July, 1792. 
War. 2. Pileus rich dark reddish brown: stem brown red. Mr. Stackhouse. 
*Var. 3. Pileus and stem golden brown. Mr. Stackhouse. 
War. 4. Pileus rich red purple: stem dusky gold colour. 
Bolt. 14. 
War. 5. Pileus rich red brown, stem pinky. 
Schceff. 214. 215. a proliferous variation — Schaeff. 219. and 254. are other 
varieties of ihis species , but I have no evidence of their having been 
found in this island. 
Gills fixed, not crowded, strong, fleshy, brittle, serrated on the edges with 
a brownish colour. 
Pileus globular, bloomy purple, clothy to the touch, three inches diameter. 
Flesh thick, brittle, white. 
Stem solid, but spongy, three inches long, one inch diameter, dusky gold 
colour, brittle, pale yellow within. Bolton. 
Var. 6. Gills pale buff: pileus peach bloom colour, convex when young, 
dimpled when full grown: stem pale yellow with a pinky tinge. 
Gills fixed, numerous, pale buff, eight in a set. 
Pileus regularly convex, paler and turned down at the edge, from two 
inches and a half to five inches over, hollowed a little when old. 
Flesh white. Curtain yellowish white, tough, leaving a permanent broad 
ring on the stem. 
Stem solid, but pithy, yellowish white or pinky, cylindrical, three to five 
inches high, half an inch or more in diameter. 
On the stump of a fir or a larch, in the Red Rock plantation, Edgbaston ; 
in clusters. 25th Sept. 1793. 
Maggots very soon excavate the pithy central part of the stem, forming an 
irregular hollow. 
The above are the most remarkable varieties of this very beautiful and 
splendid Agaric. Mr. Woodward has noticed, that when discharging 
their seeds the edges of the gills have rather a fringed than a serrated 
appearance. Mr. Stackhouse always found the gills of a bright gold 
colour. Pileus of various tints, from reddish purple to rich brownish 
yellow; flat, often depressed in the centre, edge turned down; clothy. 
Stem thick, large, clothy to the feel, purple. Often growing in clusters. 
This gentleman discovered and sent me three beautiful drawings of the 
plant prior to its appearance in any English publication. Pileus from two 
to five inches over, deep saffron colour, blended with purple tints, but 
often of a red brown and purplish. Gills constantly yellow, rather broad 
and full. Stem thick, from one to four inches long. Major Velley. 
Ag. xerampelinus. Schgeff. Fir plantations near Bath ; fir woods at Clow- 
ance, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. Major Velley. Pine grove. Ditching- 
ham. Mr, Woodward. Aug. 
