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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus 
Var. 1. Gills whitish, four in a set: pileus pale brown, edge plaited: stem 
whitish, crooked and cottony at the root. 
Bull. 518. D. 
Gills fixed, nearly white, not numerous, regularly four in a set. 
Pileus palebrown, sometimes mouse-colour, conical, scored, rather plaited 
at the border, half to one inch from the edge to the point of the cone. 
Flesh white, firm. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, stiff, and elastic, nearly white, but sometimes 
only silvery white at the top, and polished grey below; thicker, crooked, 
and cottony at the bottom, four to six inches high, thick as a crow 
quill. 
The remarkable firm stiffness of the stem characterises this and most of 
the following varieties. 
Variable Agaric. Ag. varius. Pers. Purt. E.) Ag. Jistulosus. Bull. 
Roots and stumps of a filbert hedge. Oct. Nov. 
Var. 2. Gills white, inosculating, two, three, or four in a set: pileus pur¬ 
plish brown : stem bluish brown. 
(Sowerhy 165. E.)— Schcejf. 52.1-6. 
Gills fixed, white, fleshy, firm, often very irregular and interlaced, the 
ligaments connecting them together, but the general disposition two or 
four in a set. 
Pileus brown, with more or less of a purplish tinge, edge in the young 
plants cooped in and white, conical, pointed or bossed, but the apex not 
always central, streaked, half to three quarters of an inch from the edge 
to the point of the cone. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, but more or less compressed, bluish, brown, to 
pale mouse, firm, tough, generally crooked, one inch and a half high, 
thick as a crow quill, sometimes a little woolly towards the bottom in the 
larger plants. 
Ag. conicus. Huds. 620. Ag. galericulatus. Schseff. Roots of filbert trees, 
with the preceding. Nov. 
Var. 3. Gills white, four in a set, connected by threads to the pileus; stem 
ending in a pear-shaped bulb. 
Gills fixed, white, moderately numerous, connected by white ligaments to 
the pileus, four in a set, but the smaller series very irregular in size. 
Pileus brown, conical, but expanded, pointed, sides streaked, half to one 
inch and a half over. 
Stem hollow, mouse-colour, smooth, one inch and a half to three inches and 
a half high, thick as a crow quill, swelling suddenly at the bottom into 
a pear-shaped bulb, and then dividing into roots. 
Ag.Jilopes. Bull. 320. the right hand figure would give a good idea of this 
plant if the stem were not so tall and slender, the gills not loose, and the 
root not hairy. 
Edgbaston park. 13th Nov. 1790. 
Var. 4. Gills white, two or four in a set: pileus brownish white, mottled 
with purple dots: stem white. 
Bull. 518. E. expresses a mottled variety, hut it is larger and more coloured 
than our specimens. 
be figured, and have no doubt but others may yet be found. On this account, and from 
the difficulties which this variable species has occasioned, particular descriptions are 
added to each variety; for by this mean only can we hope to see them properly ar¬ 
ranged. 
