CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus 
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me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, as having been gathered some 
years ago on an old hot-bed in a garden at Birmingham, and weighed 
fourteen pounds. 
On the sea coast or commons, Weymouth, Devonshire, and West of Corn¬ 
wall. Mr. Stackhouse. (Beneath the large elm trees at the Rookery, 
Brislington, near Bristol. E.) f 
( 2 ) Gills brown. 
Ag. luteo-fus'cus. Gills yellow brown: pileus dark yellow brown, 
widely conical, bossed: stem brown. 
Gills loose, brown, yellow, four in a set. 
Pileus dark yellow brown, convex but peaked in the centre, full one inch 
over, rather powdered, cracked at the edge when old. 
Stem solid, brown, paler in the middle, cylindrical, one to one and a half 
inch high. 
(Peaked Powdery Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford’s park at Pack- 
ington. Autumn. 
*Ag. collini'tus. Gills rich ochrey brown: pileus rich yellow brown: 
stem dirty white: ring permanent. 
Sowerby 9. 
Gills loose, the colour of rusty iron, four in a set. 
Pileus tawny brown, rather conical, four or five inches over. 
Stem solid, whitish, nearly cylindrical, three to five inches high, half an inch 
diameter. Ring turned down on the stem. 
When young, enveloped in a veil of gluten, which is durable on the dried 
specimen, and has a beautiful transparent appearance like isinglass. 
Sower by. Peckham Wood. Oct. 
(Smeared Agaric. Ag. collinitus. Sowerby. Pers. Purt E.) 
*Ag. volva'ceus. Gills red brown: pileus greenish grey, nearly flat 
when most expanded. Stem whitish. 
Sowerby 1— Bull. 262. 
Gills loose, numerous, red brown, two or four in a set. 
Pileus greenish, or greyish, convex or widely conical, nearly flat and crack¬ 
ing when fully expanded; four or five inches over. Flesh thin, white. 
Stem solid, whitish, nearly cylindrical, three to four inches high, half an inch 
diameter. 
Wrapper at the root, grey or greenish. In the bark beds of hot-houses ; 
Relhan: and by Sowerby on a decayed stump of a lime tree. Aug. 
(Greenish Flat-topped Agaric. E.) 
*J* (About Stapleford Abbot; in Essex; gathered in abundance for the London 
markets, where they are sold as mushrooms, but by the more discriminating country 
people called White Caps. Their dry and tough quality renders them scarcely safe for 
the table. Sowerby. Though often gathered by mistake to make catsup, this species 
may justly be branded with a P. as poisonous. E.) 
