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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus 
each others and the lower edges incline so as to come in contact, if not to 
grow to each other, there is necessarily a considerable cavity included 
between them. This cavity is sometimes empty, but sometimes incloses 
a gill of the common size. The external appearance of these pairs of 
large gills is not unlike a large seed of an orange. 
Pileus pale watery brown, convex, five-eighths of an inch over, the edge 
formed into as many projecting angles as there are pairs of the large gills 
described above. 
Stem watery brown, with a small hollow, one and a half inch high, thinner 
than a crow quill. 
(Octagonal Agaric. E.) Edgbaston, by the little pool dam. 
24th August. 
Ag. lachryma'lis. (Batsch.) Gills deep red brown, not numerous, 
four in a set: pileus ochrey brown, scored, dimpled: stem red 
brown. 
Batsch 8. 
Gills fixed, deep red brown, semi-transparent, not crowded, four in a set. 
Pileus ochrey brown, scored at the sides, dimpled in the centre, edge mostly 
turned down, half to one inch over. 
Stem hollow, reddish brown, generally crooked, one inch and a half to two 
inches high, hardly so thick as a crow or a goose quill. 
(Crooked-stemmed Red-brown Agaric. Ag. melinoides. Pers. Ag. 
laehrymalis. Batsch. Purt. E.) Hedge-banks, Edgbaston old road. 
Packington park. 27th Nov. 
With us it grows to more than twice the size mentioned and figured by 
Batsch ; the gills are sometimes dark brown, and the flesh white. 
Var. 2. Pileus conical: gills hanging below the edge of the pileus. 
Batsch 7. 
Ag. laehrymalis. Grass plats. July. 
Var. 3. Stem shorter, thick as a goose quill: juice of the gills like watery 
milk. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Probably a distinct species. 
Ag. circumsep'tus. (Batsch.) Gills reddish brown, four in a set: 
pileus whitish brown, scurfy, convex, dimpled: stem whitish 
brown, turned up at the base. 
Batsch 98. 
Gills fixed, reddish brown, four in a set, but the short ones very imperfect 
from the edge of the pileus rolling in. 
Pileus gently convex, whitish brown, scurfy, dimpled, edge at first much 
bent inwards, but with age tearing and turning up. 
Stem hollow, cavity very fine ; whitish brown, darker with age, cylindrical, 
two to two inches and a half high, thick as a raven quill. Root } the end 
of the stem thickened and a little turned up. 
Figure of Batsch too small, but he mentions in his description, which is 
very accurate, that the plant is sometimes much larger. 
(Dimpled Brown Agaric. E.) Ag. circumseptus . Batsch. Edgbaston, 
in pasture lands. 11th Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Gills orange brown; pileus nearly semi-globular, whitish brown, 
powdery ; stem whitish brown. 
Pileus nearly one inch and a half over; stem one inch and a half high. 
In Packington park, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
