CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agauicus. 
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*Ag. oliva'ceus. Gills yellow: pileus olive green, dotted, convex: 
stem pale rose colour. 
Schoeff. 201. 
Gills fixed, golden yellow, in pairs, fleshy, long one sometimes splitting. 
Pileus olive green, dotted, convex, three to four inches over, edge turned up 
when old. 
Stem solid, pale rose red, cylindrical, two inches high, three quarters of an 
inch diameter. Flesh white. SchaefF. 
(Olive-green Agaric. E.) Ag. olivaceus. Schaeflf. Found by Dr. Sib- 
thorpe in Shotover plantations, Oxfordshire. Possibly another variety 
of Ag. xer ampelinus . Oct. 
( 6 ) Gills grey . 
Ag. LiTTORE r us. Gills reddish grey: pileus yellow brown: stem 
white. 
Gills fixed, reddish grey, fleshy, four in a set. 
Pileus yellow brown, convex, edge rather turned in, one inch and a quarter 
over. 
Stem solid white, one inch long, thick as a goose quill. Ring permanent. 
(Sea-shore Agaric. E.) On the green-sward adjoining to the sea shore 
at Teignmouth. 6th Oct. 1792. 
Ag. semiluna'tus. Gills light grey brown, broad: pileus very dark 
brown, convex, the edge turned downwards and inwards ; stem 
black. 
Gills fixed, light grey brown, four in a set, broad, crumpled. 
Pileus dark blackish brown, convex, but the edges arched inwards so that a 
section presents the shape of a crescent, near half an inch in diameter. 
Stem solid; (but the drawing which I have seen of the plant not quite 
decisive on that point,) black, very light grey within, one to one inch and 
a half high, thinner than a swallow’s quill. 
(Half-moon-shaped Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford’s park at 
Packington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
III. SOLID AND LOOSE. 
( 1 ) Gills white. 
Ag. bulbous. (Schseff.) Gills white, irregular: pileus convex, 
white: stem cylindrical, white. 
Bull. 364— Schceff, 241— Bolt. 48—( Sowerby 130. E.)— Battar. 6. A. 
Gills loose, white, or watery white, very numerous, irregular, but mostly in 
pairs, the short ones very unequal in length, and sometimes not pre¬ 
sent. 
Pileus white, at first nearly semi-globular, cracking across as it expands 
further ; sometimes fringed at the edge with the remains of the curtain; 
smooth, four or five inches over. Flesh white, spongy, very thick. 
Stem solid, irregularly hollow with age, white, cylindrical, smooth, rarely 
quite straight, four inches high, half an inch or more in diameter. Ring 
. permanent, broad, white. 
