CRYPTOGAM! A. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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(Horny Crooked-stemmed Agaric. E.) On the stump of a fir tree which 
had been felled, in the Red Rock plantation, Edgbaston. 
11th Aug. 1793. 
*Ag. lycoperdonoi'des. Gills blackish brown: pileus dirty white; 
globular: stem white, short. 
Bull. L66—(Sowerby 383. E.) 
Gills loose, brown changing to blackish, few, thick, uniform. 
Pileus white changing to dirty brown yellow, globular, from the size of a 
pea to half an inch diameter. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, quarter to half an inch high; thick as a crow 
or swallow’s quill. 
(Puff-ball Agaric. E.) Ag. lycoperdonoides. Bull. Grows on the pileus 
and gills of other Agarics in a state of decay. Found by Mr. Dickson, 
and Dr. Sibthorpe. Oct. 
(3) Gills red. 
*Ag. ru'jbens. (Bolt.) Gills ruby red, four in a set: pileus dark red, 
gently conical: stem bright red. 
Bull 202— Bolt. 36— FL Dan. 715. 
Gills loose, thin, transparent; when held between the eye and the light, of 
a glowing ruby colour, regularly four in a set. 
Pileus gently conical, fine dark red, cottony to the touch, one and a half 
inch over. 
Stem solid, strong bright red, hard, seldom straight, four to five inches high, 
thick as a goose quill. Bolton. 
Ag. coccineus. Bulliard, but not Schaeffer 302. Bulliard’s name is rejected 
because previously appropriated by Scopoli to another species. Indeed 
the same reason exists against Bolton’s name, but that the species which 
Scopoli has called rubens , is a variety of Ag. muscarius. 
(Ruby-coloured Agaric. E.) Ag. rubens. Bolt. Ag. Kermisinus. FI. 
Dan. In a wood belonging to Shibden Hall, near Halifax, and not else¬ 
where. Oct. 
* Ag. angula'tus. Gills reddish brown, irregular: pileus dead yellow 
brown, widely conical, very glossy; stem darker. 
Gills loose, reddish brown, angular, irregular, three or four in a set. 
Pileus dead leaf colour, very glossy and satiny, widely conical, sometimes 
bossed, one inch over in the largest specimens. 
Stem solid; dark brown, inclining to black; two inches high, thick as a 
swallow’s quill. 
(Brown Satiny Agaric. E.) Found by Mr. Stackhouse at Pendarvis. 
Aug. 
Ag. auran'tius. Gills loose, pinky flesh colour, four in a set: pileus 
pale pink: stem pinky white. 
Ag. aurantius. Var. 3. See Hollow and Fixed. 
Ag. campes'tris. (Linn.) Gills pinky, changing to dark liver colour, 
crowded, irregular: pileus convex, white to brown : stem white, 
cylindrical: curtain white. 
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