CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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darker liver colour, but in this they were nearly white, for some time 
after the tearing of the curtain, which made me doubtful of its species, 
till at length they changed to the usual colour. This delay was 
probably occasioned by the slow ripening of the seeds so late in the 
year. 
Ag. la'tus. (Bolt.) Gills pale flesh-colour, eight in a set, hut irre¬ 
gular : pileus brown mouse: convex, rather bossed: stem white, 
cylindrical. 
(* Sowerby 108. E.)— Bull. 382. Gill too highly coloured—Bolt. 2. but the 
colouring in my copy neither agrees with our specimens , nor with his own 
description , which is sufficiently exact. 
Gills loose, white when young, changing to a pale flesh colour, numerous, 
mostly eight in a set, but the smaller series often absent, and often 
standing nearer to the edge of the pileus than the extent of the large 
ones. 
Pileus brown mouse colour, convex, fleshy, a little bossed, satiny, smooth 
when young, when fully expanded much wrinkled about the boss, two to 
five inches over. 
Stem solid white, cylindrical, rather scurfy towards the bottom, spongy and 
juicy, two to three inches high, three-eighths diameter. 
(Broad Mouse-coloured Agaric. E.) Ag. lividus. Bull. Ag. latus. 
Bolt. Edgbaston, on turf. Solitary. July—Sept. 
Var. 2. Plant when young inclosed in a wrapper. 
Bull. 262. 
The presence of the wrapper or volva , and some variation in the tint of the 
pileus, seem the only circumstances wherein it differs from Bull. pi. 382. 
PI. 330 of the same author is only a dwarf plant of the same kind. 
Ag. volvaceus. Bull. Found by Mr. Relhan in the tan pit in Professor Har¬ 
wood's hot-house, at Cambridge. 
*Ag. crustulinifor'mis. Gills brown red: pileus red huff, whitish 
at the edge, convex : stem white, scurfy. 
Bull. 308. and 546. 
Gills loose, brown red, four in a set. 
Pileus red buff, edges whitish, scolloped and waved when full grown, con¬ 
vex, two to four inches over. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, white, cylindrical, scurfy, two and a half inches high, one-third 
of an inch diameter. Bulliard. 
(Crust-like Agaric. Ag. fastibilis. Pers. E.) Ag. crustuliniformis. 
Bull. On the authority of Dr. Sibthorpe, who found it in a copse under 
Shotover hills, Oxfordshire. Sept. 
(4) Gills buff. 
*Ag. HiNNU f LEUS. Gills buff, very broad, four in a set: pileus fawn- 
coloured, convex, mealy: stem chesnut. 
{Sowerby 173 E.)— Bull. 5T4. 1. maybe the plant , but it is much larger than ours . 
Gills loose, buff, very broad, four in a set. 
Pileus bright fawn-colour, surface covered with a fine farinaceous substance, 
which appears under the microscope as mealy tubercles, one to two inches 
over. 
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