CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Curtain eobweb-like fibres extending from the stem to the edge of the 
pileus. 
(Ferrugineous Agaric. E) Ag. fierruginascens . Batsch. Red rock plan¬ 
tation, Edgbaston. Sept. 
Ag. hyp'ni. (Batsch.) Gills cinnamon, four in a set, long ones about 
fifteen : pileus reddish brown, conical: stem cylindrical, fox-coloured, 
shining. 
Batsch SG—^Sowerhy 282. E.) 
Gills fixed, cinnamon-colour, four in a set, long ones about fifteen. 
Pileus uniform reddish brown, conical, blunt, rather scored, one-eighth to 
one quarter of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, but pithy, cylindrical, shining, tawny or fox-colour, three 
quarters to one inch and a half high, not thicker than a pin. 
(Feather-moss Agaric. E.) Ag. Ilypni. Batsch. Ag. acicula. Schaeff. 
Sowerby. Amongst moss. Oct. 
Ag. lacinia'tus. Gills brown, very broad, ragged at the edges, four 
in a set: pileus light brown, semi-globular : stem white, taper¬ 
ing downwards. 
Gills slightly fixed to the top of the stem, brown, ragged at the edges, very 
broad, filling up the hollow of the pileus, four in a set. 
Pileus light brown, semi-globular, smooth, one to two inches over. Flesh 
white. 
Stem hollow, white, tapering downwards, one inch and a half to two inches 
high, thick as a goose quill. 
(Ragged-gilled Agaric. E.) Edgbaston park. 13th Oct. 1790. 
Ag. crena'tus. Gills red brown, eight in a set, the large ones broad 
and serrated: pileus cool brown, satiny, scolloped at the edge: 
stem pale brown. 
j Bull. 526. the hollow stemmed figures very like it, hut the gills appear to he 
loose. 
Gills slightly fixed, red brown, eight in a set, the large ones broad, irregu¬ 
larly serrated at the edges; the smaller ones very minute. 
Pileus cool brown, very satiny, convex, with a point in the centre which 
soon changes to a hollow from the expansion and turning up of the pileus, 
but the very edge constantly turns down. From one to one inch and a 
half diameter, and often cracked from the edge to the centre. Flesh very 
thin. 
Stem hollow, pale polished brown, thick as a crow or a goose quill, one inch 
and a half high ; often flatted. 
(Satiny Scollop-edged Agaric. E.) Plantations at Edgbaston. Aug. 
Ag. clypea'tus. (Linn.) Gills greyish brown; four or eight in a set ; 
pileus pale brown, convex, bossed, viscid: stem white, viscid. 
Bolt. 57—Sch(Eff. 52.fi. 7. 8. 9. the stem and the boss more coloured than ours . 
—Battar 25. E. 
Gills fixed slightly to the stem, greyish watery brown, four or eight in a 
set. 
Pileus brown, convex, bossed, border scored, very viscid, so that flies 
alighting upon it cannot escape; paler in colour when this viscid matter is 
rubbed off; one to one and a half inch over. 
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