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Pileus when fully expanded flatted at the top like a cushion; edge strongly 
scored : three or four inches over. Flesh white, spongy. 
Stem solids dark grey, nearly cylindrical but thicker at the bottom, which is 
enclosed in a permanent wrapper; three to four inches high, near half 
an inch diameter. Bolton. The colour of the gills not mentioned in the 
description, but if grey white as represented in the figure, it cannot be 
the same plant as Mr. Bulliard’s Ag. volvaceus , pi. 262, which has white 
gills when young, changing to salmon colour when in maturity. 
(Brown Cushion Agaric. E.) Ag.pulvinatus. Bolt. Woods and moist 
shady places about Halifax, but rare. Sept. 
*Ag. hqrizon'talis. (Bull.) Gills yellowish white, four in a set: 
pileus yellowish brown, convex, not fully circular: stem bent 
horizontally. 
Bull. 324—( Sowerhy 341. E.) 
Gills loose, contiguous to the stem but not fixed to it, yellowish white, few, 
rounded at the edge, four in a set, the smaller series very minute. 
Pileus convex, yellowish brown, almost semi-orbicular, smooth, shining, 
one inch broad. 
Stem solid, little more than half an inch long, central, but immediately bent 
so as to be parallel to the pileus, and inserted into the crevices of the 
bark on which it grows ; in thickness equal to a swallow’s quill. I have 
frequently been deceived in gathering this plant; the stem from its mode 
of growth not being easily seen, gives it the appearance of a dimidiated 
Agaric until pulled. Mr. Woodward. 
(Horizontal Agaric. Ag. horizontal™. Bull. Purt. E.) On old trees at 
Mettingham, and elsewhere near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. 
Ag. claVus. (Linn.) Gills white, in pairs: pileus with a dimple in 
the centre : stem very long and slender: root very long. 
Schceff. 59. very good, hut large — Bull. 148. B. C. 1)—A. is another species 
— Vaill. xi. 19. 19.20— Bolt. 89. B. 
Gills loose, in pairs, white, about twenty of each sort. 
Pileus pale orange, convex, with a dimple in the centre, from one-tenth to 
three-tenths of an inch over. 
Stem solid, pale orange, semi-transparent, from three quarters to one inch 
high, not thicker than a pin. Root very long. 
This is a Linnaean species, but I omit the character in the FI. Suec. as it 
is evident that the author had confounded two different plants together. 
In the Sp. pi. Ed. 3. the erroneous part of the reference to Vaill. Par. is 
thrown out, but the whole of the error is not yet removed. 
Ray Syn. 9. 44. has been supposed to be this plant, but the conical pileus 
does not justify that opinion. 
(Pin-headed Agaric. E.) Ag. clavus. Schseff. Bull. Bolt. Common 
amongst moss and old leaves. July. 
Var. 2. Pileus and stem pinky white. 
Bull. 569. 2. 
Gills loose, white, in pairs. 
Pileus flat, pinky white, near half an inch diameter. 
Stem solid, pinky towards the bottom, two inches high or more, not thicker 
than a strong bristle. Root very long. 
Ag. epiphy Ileus* Bull. On dead leaves in Lord Aylesford’s park, Packington. 
Autumn. 
