CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Gills fixed to the stem by a small claw, white, not numerous, four in a set, 
but the smaller series often wanting. 
Pileus brownish white, mottled with purplish dots and streaks, conical, 
cracking at top when full grown, half an inch from the edge to the point 
of the cone. Flesh white. 
Stem hollow, white, glossy, splitting, often crooked, one to one inch and a 
half high, thinner than a crow quill. 
At the bottom of posts and pales. 25th Nov. 
Var. 5. Gills white, with purple blotches, two or four in a set: pileus 
whitish, with purplish brown blotches: stem brown. 
Gills fixed, of a dirty white with purple blotches; not numerous, two or 
four in a set. 
Pileus whitish, irregularly blotched with purplish brown, conical, scored, 
wrinkled at the border, not fleshy, half an inch from the edge to the point 
of the cone. 
Stem hollow, brown, darkest at the bottom, shining, splitting, crooked, two 
to three inches high, thinner than a crow quill. 
This singular and beautiful variety has not been figured. It is not common 
with us. 
On a hedge bank in the old road, Edgbaston. 27th Nov. 1791. 
Var. 6. Gills white, in pairs, long ones splitting; pileus conical, peaked, 
brown mouse : stem pale mouse, feeble : root thick, crooked. 
Gills fixed, white, in pairs, long ones often splitting at the outer end, or 
the short gill connected with the long one. 
Pileus conical, pointed, brown mouse, sides wrinkled, half to one inch from 
the edge to the apex of the cone. 
Stem hollow, whitish mouse, smooth, feeble and bending before the decay 
of the pileus; two to three inches high, not half the thickness of a crow 
quill. Root much thicker than the stem, bent horizontally, and some¬ 
times turning upwards. 
Stumps of a filbert hedge, Edgbaston. 17th Oct. 1790. 
Var. 7. Gills white, in pairs: pileus dark brown : stem grey. 
Bull 518. C. 
Gills fixed, white, alternately long and short, about twenty of each sort. 
Pileus brown to chocolate colour, conical, blunt, border bent in and wrinkled, 
a quarter of an inch from the edge to the point. 
Stem hollow, silvery grey, often crooked, half an inch to one inch high, not 
much thicker than a large pin. 
This is sometimes found not much above a fourth part as large. 
Ag.Jistulosus. Bull. Not uncommon on hedge banks. 22d Oct. 
*Var. 8. Gills white, two or four in a set: pileus, upper parts black, lower 
parts white: stem black below, white upwards. 
Bolt. 137. 
Gills narrow, long ones attached to the stem by a pointed claw. 
Pileus oblong-egg-shaped, changing to bell-shaped; three-quarters of an 
inch high ; white at the edge only when young, but as it grows the white 
extends up to its middle. 
Stem dusky approaching to black, but when full grown the top is white. 
Near eight inches high; thick as a raven quill. Bolton. 
Ag. atro-albus. Bolt. 
Ag. compres^sus. Gills white, fleshy, few, two to eight in a set: 
pileus brown ; irregular: stem white, compressed. 
