CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. AgariCRs. 
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Stem hollow, yellow, scurfy, often crooked, greatly tapering downwards, 
four inches long, thick as a goose quill in the middle part. 
I found this singular Agaric but once, and then it grew in clusters. 
(Primrose-coloured Agaric. E.) Plantations, Edgbaston. 
15th Oct. 1790. 
V. HOLLOW AND FIXED. 
(1) Gills white . 
Ag. nemora'lis. Gills white, numerous, four in a set: pileus white, 
smooth, convex, huffy in the centre: stem white, thickest down¬ 
wards. 
Bull 585. 2. 
Gills fixed, white, numerous, the upper part only attached to the stem, very 
thin and delicate, but not brittle ; regularly four in a set; brownish and 
mottled when the seeds are ripe. 
Pileus white, smooth, convex, pointed and huffy in the centre, one to one 
and a half inch over. 
Stem hollow, white, thickest at the bottom, which is covered with a white 
cottony substance, two to three inches high, thick as a raven’s quill. 
(Wood Agaric. E.) Ag. des devins. Bull. In woods ; Edgbaston. 
Var. 2. Pileus, centre concave: stem cylindrical. Oct. 31st. 
Var. 3. Pileus conical, uneven at the edge : stem cylindrical. 
Gills fixed, white, numerous, four in a set. 
Pileus white, smooth, conical, very thin and therefore transparent, uneven 
at the edge, cone half an inch high, and as much across at the base. 
Curtain sometimes hanging in fragments to the edge of the pileus. 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, smooth, splitting, not straight but forming 
a serpentine line, one and a half inch high, thick as a crow quill. 
Plantations on low wet ground, amongst grass and moss, Edgbaston. Sept. 
The white colour in this species soon tarnishes, changing to a dirty pinky 
brown, and becoming watery at the edge of the pileus. The outer coat 
of the stem frequently splits and separates, the inner remaining entire. 
Var. 4. Gills yellow white; stem light orange ; splitting. 
Gills broad near the stem, fixed only by a claw, and crumpled when fully 
grown. Flesh so little that the gills are marked on the pileus. 
In Packington park. 
For other varieties of it see pi. 580 of Bulliard’s Agarics called Ag. ovinus. 
*Ag. concin'nus. (Bolt.) Gills white, numerous,broad, four in a set: 
pileus mouse brown, conical, blunt: stem white, cylindrical. 
Bolt. 15. 
Gills fixed, thin, pliable, closely set. 
Pileus conical, dark mouse brown, dissolving into a sordid jelly; two inches 
over. 
Stem hollow, tender, two to three inches high, thick as a goose quill. 
Bolton. 
(Conical Mouse-coloured Agaric. E.) Ag. concinnus. Bolt. Moist 
woods. 23d Sept. 1786. 
Ag. va'rius. Gills white, not numerous, two or four in a set: pileus 
conical, scored: stem cylindrical, glossy, stiff, size of a crow 
quilLt 
*f* Mr. Bulliard has well figured several sorts of this variable species in his 518th 
plate, alTof which have not occurred to me, but I have found some which still remain to 
