CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Aoaricus. 
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Schoejf. 13— Batsch. 100— {Sowerby 208. E.) 
Gills a little decurrent in the young and smaller plants, greatly so in the 
older and larger ones, few, thick, very dilute pink, or as if powdered 
with dull white upon a pink ground, scolloped at the edge, regularly four 
in a set. 
Pileus pale pinky brown, deeper coloured and bossed in the centre; half to 
one inch over. 
Stem hollow, very pale brown, with a pinky tinge, shining, thickest at the 
top, four inches high, size of a crow quill. 
This plant is always distinguishable by the small number of Gills , which 
are sprinkled with a mealy powder. Stem slender, three or four inches 
high. Pileus one to two inches over, varying in colour, but usually more 
or less purple, often very irregular in shape, and occasioning waves in the 
gills. Common. Mr. Woodward. 
The whole plant sometimes mealy. Dr. Sibthorpe has referred Ray Syn. 
p. 5. n. 23. to this species: but Dillenius’s description is that of a much 
larger plant. 
(Mealy Agaric. Ag. farinaceus. Pers. Hook. Purt. E.) Ag. subcarneus. 
Batsch. Ag. laccatus. Schseff. In the grass under pine trees at Bath, in 
abundance. On Combe Down. Major Velley. 
Var. 2. Gills in pairs : stem thickest at the bottom when young. 
Gills about twenty long ones. 
Pileus quarter to half an inch over, convex, turning up with age. 
Stem thickest downwards in the young, thickest upwards in the old plants, 
one and a half to two inches high. The whole plant inside and outside 
of a pinky red. 
Plantations at Tettenhall, Staffordshire. July. 
Ag. rubeola'rius. Gills pale pink, deep red at the edge : pileus pale 
pink, cylindri-conical; stem pink. 
Gills decurrent, pale pink with deep red edges ; broad. 
Pileus pale watery pink, cylindrical but rounded at the top, one-tenth of an 
inch high. 
Stem hollow, pink, weak, one inch high, not thicker than a strong bristle. 
(Cylindrical Pink Agaric. E.) On decayed sticks in the park at Pack- 
ington. 
Ag. irregularis. (Bolt.) Gills pale rose, broad, tough, wide asun¬ 
der, four in a set; pileus pale brown, bossed, irregular, oblique : 
stem whitish, cylindrical, flattened and larger at the top. 
Bolt. 13. 
Gills decurrent, of a delicate blush colour, tough, broad, not numerous, 
four in a set. 
Pileus' pale brown, or whitish, bossed, plaited, crumpled, irregular, set 
sloping on the stem, about two inches over. 
Stem hollow, nearly white, cylindrical, but larger and flattened at the setting 
on of the pileus, two inches high, quarter of an inch diameter. 
Specimen, description, and an excellent drawing from Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Irregular Oblique Agaric. E.) Ag. irregularis. Bolt. Ditches under 
trees, not uncommon. Beacon Hill, Bath. Woolhope, Herefordshire. 
Mr. Stackhouse. 
