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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Pileus blossom or^pale rose-colour, convex, bossed, scored at the sides, edge 
ragged, turning up with age and changing to yellow brown, from half to 
one and a half inch over. 
Stem hollow, pale or rose colour, firm, splitting, cylindrical, smooth, two to 
four inches high, from one-eighth to three-eighths of an inch diameter. 
(Rose-coloured Agaric. Ag. incarnatus. Relhan Suppl. ii. n. 1092. Ag. 
roseus. Bull. Purt. Ag. purus. Pers. E.) Plantations, Edgbaston. 
Nov. 1790. 
Var. 2. Gills fleshy: pileus brown buff inclining to rose, boss darker, 
smooth, sides ribbed: stem pale rose or yellowish, white at the top. 
Schoeff. 303. 
Ag. nibettus. Schseff. Bottom of stumps. Nov. 
Var. 3. Gills pale pink changing to grey; stem flattened, silvery white: 
root long, taper, brown, woody. 
The stem is hollow, but when old the hollow is filled with a beautiful white 
pith like floss silk. Pileus watery brown. 
Packington park, Warwickshire. 
Ag. rubecun'dus. Gills pale red, mostly four in a set: pileus brick 
red: stem brown red; root a knob. 
Gills fixed, pale red, not numerous, generally four in a set, but the short 
gills often wanting. 
Pileus pinky red, or brick dust colour, sometimes powdered over with white; 
conical, flatted at top; one to two inches over. 
Stem hollow, brownish red, crooked, thick as a goose quill. Root rather 
bulbous. 
(Brick-coloured Bulbous Agaric. E.) Farther plantations, and by the 
side of a gravel walk, Edgbaston. 4th Sept. 1792. 
Ag. jerugino'sus. (Curtis.) Gills lilac, four or eight in a set: pileus 
blue, changing to brown yellow, convex, bossed: stem bluish. 
Curt. 309. excellent, (but not Hudson s viridis which has white gills, nor yet 
Micheli 152. alhi et virides, 2. which has a white stem also.) ( Sowerby 264. 
E.)— Schosjf. 1— Bolt. 143 .a very large specimen. 
Gills fixed, numerous, rich lilac colour, four in a set in the small, eight in 
the large plants. 
Pileus convex, bossed, blue, slimy, one to three inches over; border turning 
up when old. 
Stem hollow, bluish, white at the top, nearly cylindrical, one and a half to 
two and a half inches long; lower part covered with a thin bluish green 
skin. Curtain white, delicate, fringing with its fragments the border of 
the pileus, and forming a ring on the stem, but not a very permanent 
one.* Root conical, thicker than the stem, growing on decayed wood. 
The blue colour of the pileus seems resident in the slimy matter upon it, 
and this being laid on a yellow ground, produces a greenish cast. 
(Verdegrise Agaric. E.) Ray Syn. p. 6. n. 30. Ag. viridulus. SchaefF. 
Ag. cyaneus. Bolt. 
* In the Autumn of 1788 in several hundred specimens, I never found one that had 
a ring on the stem ; but the following year almost every one which occurred had this 
distinguishing mark. Major Velley. 
