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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Stem solid, white, with longitudinal pale brown rising lines, regularly 
tapering upwards, four to six inches high, nearly an inch diameter at the 
bottom and half as much at the top. Flesh tender, juicy, spongy. 
This must be a very rare species, as its size and the metallic splendour of 
its pileus cannot fail to attract the eye, and yet there does not appear to 
be any figure of it. 
(Resplendent Agaric. E.) On a decayed alder stump by the side of the 
pool in Edgbaston Park. Also close to the bottom of an oak stump, at a 
distance from water. 26th July, 1792. 
*Ag. radica'tus. (Relh.) Gills white, few, four in a set: pileus 
brownish, bluntly conical: stem brown, tapering upwards : root 
very long. 
(Sowerby 48 E.)—-iMZ. 232. and 515. 
Gills loose, white, few, distant, four in a set. 
Pileus brownish, or dirty white, rather bell-shaped, not fleshy, almost 
pellucid, qdge rather bent in, but with age turning up, three to four 
inches over, or more. 
Stem solid, rather woody, four to six inches high, thick as a goose quill, 
gradually thickening from the pileus down to the ground, then penetrating 
the earth in form of a long- root tapering downwards. Relhan n. 1040. 
Stem covered with a thick down, of a reddish brown colour; five or six 
inches high, gradually increasing in thickness to the ground, and then 
tapering to a spindle-shaped root which penetrates deep into the earth. 
I raised it to more than the length of the stem above ground without 
obtaining the whole root. Pileus about four inches over, pale brown or 
dirty white, almost transparent, being absolutely without flesh: the edge 
rather bent in. Gills few, white, broad, four in a set, none of them 
reaching the stem. Upon comparing the description of Relhan with 
the above, which was drawn up sometime before the publication of his 
supplement, it cannot be doubted but the plants are the same. Bulliard’s 
plate 232 agrees, except that the pileus is described as downy, and the 
stem is longitudinally striated; but as from its woody substance it 
shrinks and twists in drying, this appearance in the figure may be occa¬ 
sioned by that circumstance. Mr. Woodward. 
(Long-rooted Agaric. Ag. macrorhhus. Pers. E.) Ag. longipes. Bull. 
Solitary; on the margins of cornfields at Mettingham, and Homersfield, 
Suffolk; in a strong clayey soil. Mr. Woodward. 
War. 2. Stem not two inches high, swelling out to the size of a finger; 
root fourteen inches long, and large in proportion. Relhan. Suppl. ii. 
p. 25. 
Pastures and plantations. Sept. 
Ag. or/cades. (Bolt.) Gills brownish watery white, two or four in 
a set: pileus pale brown, convex, irregular: stem whitish, 
browner with age, very tough, rarely central. 
(j Sowerby 247. ~R.)~Bull. 144; hut the plate has too much of a finished smooth - 
ness, and is too highly and too uniformly coloured. 
Gills loose, (but the part attached to the pileus approaches so close to the 
stem, as to give them almost the appearance of being fixed) watery 
brownish white, two or four in a set, the small ones often very minute, 
and the large ones sometimes splitting at the outer end; not numerous, 
rather broad for the size of the plant; frequently connected to the pileus 
by ligaments. 
