CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGL Agaricus. 
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Ag. fusco-purpu'reus. Gills purplish brown, broad, thin: pileus 
light brown, semi-globular: stem reddish brown. 
Gills fixed, purplish brown, very broad and thin, numerous. 
Pileus light brown, nearly semi-globular, full one inch over. 
Stem hollow, reddish brown, silky, smooth, twisting and splitting: two 
inches and a half high; thick as a raven’s quill. 
(Broad-gilled Semi-globular Agaric. E.) In Packington park. Pos¬ 
sibly a variation of Ag. semi-globatus. 
AG. teener. (SchaefF.) Gills nut brown, four in a set, extending below 
the edge of the pileus: pileus deep bulf, bluntly conical, dark 
brown at the edge : stem nut brown, smooth, splitting. 
Schoeff. 70— Bull. 535. 1 —and 403. B. C. hut the colours in the latter paler 
than our specimens.—Sowerby 33. is Ag. colus. 
Gills fixed slightly to the stem, rich nut brown, their extremities, dipping 
below the edge of the pileus, not numerous, four in a set. 
Pileus deep buff], edge dark brown, bluntly conical, smooth, half an inch 
from the base to the apex of the cone. 
Stem hollow, nut brown, cylindrical, silky, smooth, splitting, twisting, three 
inches and a half high, hardly so thick as a crow quill. 
(Tender Agaric. E.) Ag. tener. SchaefF. Ag. foraminulosus. Bull. Edg- 
baston, the farther plantation, amongst grass and moss. 31st Oct. 1790. 
Ag. xylophii/lus. Gills brown, broad, four in a set: pileus rich nut 
brown, semi-globular: stem rich brown, crooked. 
Bull. 530. 2. L. M. 2— -{Sowerby 167. E.) 
Gills fixed, brown, four in a set, broad. 
Pileus rich nut brown, semi-globular, one to one inch and a half over, the 
edge turned in. 
Stem hollow, rich brown, paler upwards, crooked, about one inch and a half 
long, thick as a raven’s quill. 
(Wood Agaric. Ag. xylophillus. Bull. De Cand. Purt. E.) In clusters 
on an alder stump at the tail of the great pool in Edgbaston park, in a 
very wet place. August. 
Ag. chocola'tus. Gills rich dark brown, mottled, four or eight in a 
set: pileus pale yellow brown, convex, bossed: stem pale 
brown. 
Gills fixed, rich chocolate colour, numerous, mottled, four or eight in a set. 
Pileus pale yellow brown, convex, bossed, one inch and a half to two inches 
^ from the edge to the apex; smooth, fibrous. Flesh thin, yellow white. 
Stem hollow, pale brown, scurfy, gently tapering upwards, bulbous at the 
base, splitting; from four to six inches high, three-tenths to half an inch 
diameter. 
Curtain fugacious, but leaving a stain on the stem, and fringing the edge of 
the pileus. 
(Chocolate-gilled Agaric. E.) In clusters amongst grass, at Edgbas- 
ton - Sept. 
Ag. fusco-fla'vus. Gills dark cinnamon, four in a set: pileus brown 
yellow, convex, bossed, edge turned down; stem brown yellow, 
splitting. 
Schceff. 4. 
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