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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Var. 3. Pileus darker coloured and depressed in the centre: stem light buff, 
crooked, varying from the thickness of a goose quill to that of a 
swallow. 
On decayed wood about Packington, Warwickshire. 
Ag. ma'cer. Gills pinky pale brown, eight in a set: pileus pale 
brown, convex, bossed : stem white, cylindrical, smooth. 
Bull 518./. F. 
Gills fixed, pinky white when young, changing when expanded to a 
brownish flesh colour, thin, numerous. 
Pileus conical when young, nearly flat when old, always bossed, slightly 
scored, uneven at the edge, very thin and semi-transparent, the pale dead 
brown when rubbed shewing a pinky cast: from one to three and a half 
inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, smooth, splitting, from one and a quarter 
to four inches high, from one-eighth to three-eighths diameter. Has 
neither curtain nor ring. 
(Emaciated Brown Agaric. E.) Growing in clusters, and like most of 
the clustered Agarics, varying very much in size. 
Ag. Jistulosus. Bull. Edgbaston milking-bank. July—Sept. 
Var. 2. Gills pinky brown, four or eight in a set: pileus very pale buff, 
nearly flat: stem with a little loose pith in the hollow. 
Batsch. 111. but the pileus in our plants paler and flatter. 
Gills fixed, fleshy brown colour, with a purplish tinge at the edges when 
shedding the seed, four or eight in a set. 
Pileus nearly flat, with a gently raised boss, buffy white at the border, more 
buffy in the centre; a little cracking and wrinkled at the edge, one to 
one inch and a half over. Flesh very thin, white. 
Stem hollow, with more or less pith, white, cylindrical, smooth, three and 
a half inches high, thick as a crow or raven quill. 
The stem is much taller in proportion to the size of the pileus than in the 
preceding. 
In clusters on decayed wood. Oct.—April. 
War. 3. Gills four in a set: pileus nearly white, hemispherical transparent: 
stem white. 
Bolt. 11. 
Gills fixed, white, with a faint reddish brown tinge, black in decay; thin, 
flexible, broad, distant, four in a set. , 
Pileus white, hemispherical, never turning up, sometimes waved at the edge, 
membranaceous, thin, one and a half to two inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, readily splitting, two or three inches- high, thick as a 
swan’s quill. Bolton. Entirely without flesh. Mr. Woodward. 
Ag. membranaceus. Bolt. Shady woods on the decaying roots of fallen oak 
trees. Not uncommon. Mr. Woodward. 
Ag. virida'rius. Gills pale brown, four in a set, few: pileus rich 
buff, convex: stem pale buff, cylindrical. 
Schteff. 226. 
Gills fixed, pale brown, four in a set, long ones not more than sixteen. 
Pileus rich buff, regularly convex, smooth, three quarters of an inch over. 
Flesh yellowish. 
Stem hollow, the cavity pretty much filed with a white pith; pale buff, 
cylindrical, smooth, one inch long, thinner than a crow quill. Root a 
knob. 
Has none of the powdery matter on the pileus mentioned by Schaeffer, but 
that appearance is probably very transitory. The hollow in the stem is 
