226 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakicus. 
Gills fixed, full cinnamon, broad but not very numerous, four in a set, 
regular. 
Tileus convex, brown yellow, satiny, a small pointed boss in the centre, edge 
dipping down, one inch and a half to two inches over. 
Stem hollow, brownish yellow, white below, satiny, cylindrical, compressed, 
splitting, two to four inches high, a quarter of an inch diameter, or 
more. 
Sometimes the pileus is dimpled and scurfy, and the long gills are much 
broader than the others. These differences chiefly occur when the plants 
attain a larger size, viz. the stem from three to five inches high, and the 
pileus three to four inches over. 
Schaeffer’s name cannot properly be retained, but our plant exactly cor¬ 
responds with his figure, which has repeatedly been considered as Ag. 
cinnairiomeus of Limlaeus. Bolton seems to be the first who discovered 
that plant in this kingdom, and has figured it extremely well in his 
appendix. 
(Brown-yellow Flat-stemmed Agaric. E.) Ag. croceus. Schseff. Pas¬ 
tures, Edgbaston. 17th Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Pileus regularly convex: stem short, thin, with a slender hollow. 
Gills fixed, ochrey brown, four in a set, moderately numerous. 
Pileus regularly convex, pale buff, darker in the centre, one inch and a half 
to two inches over. 
Stem hollow, brownish, cylindrical, splitting, one inch and a half high, thick 
as a crow quill; the hollow very fine. 
On a flower bed in the garden, Edgbaston. 23d Aug. 1792. 
Ag. vulpi'nus. Gills red chesnut, two or four in a set: pileus chesnut, 
small, flattish, dimpled; stem fox-colour. 
Gills fixed, chesnut-colour, firm, four in a set; long ones about thirty. 
Pileus chesnut, flattish, dimpled, turning up with age, half or three quarters 
of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, the perforation very fine, tawny or fox-cOlour, firm, fleshy, 
two to four inches high, thick as a swan’s quill. 
The almost uniform dead foxy-colour, the smallness, flatness, and thinness 
of the pileus, compared with the length, the firmness, and the thickness 
of the stem, give this plant a very singular appearance, but I have not 
found any figure resembling it. 
Several together, apparently from one common root, amongst moss, Edg¬ 
baston. 11th Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Gills in pairs, long ones about fifty; pileus convex, not dimpled, 
very small: stem club-shaped, greatly tapering upwards. 
(Dimpled Fox-coloured Agaric. E.) Edgbaston plantations. 
Aug.—Oct. 
Ag. ferruginas'cens. Gills purplish brown: pileus bluish, centre 
brown: stem pale blue. 
Putsch 187. 
Gills fixed, regular, four in a set in the smaller, eight in the larger plants, 
brownish with a beautiful cast of purple. 
Pileus bluish, browner in the centre, convex, the edge turned in, from one 
to two inches and a half over. Flesh purplish. 
Stem hollow, pale blue, or whitish, from one quarter to half an inch diame¬ 
ter, two to four inches and a half high, club-shaped at the base. 
