CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakicus. 
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Ag • ceruginosus. Pers. Purt. E.) Rookery, Edgbaston. Not uncommon 
in woods. Mr. Stackhouse. Earsham wood, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. 
Sept. Oct. 
Var. 2. Gills four in a set: pileus pale blue, pointed: stem entirely white. 
A small specimen, perhaps only different from having grown shaded by a 
large plant of Ag. Listeri. Var. 1. 31st Oct. 
Var. 3. Gills regularly four in a set, without cross threads: pileus conical: 
stem white. 
Gills fixed, few, regularly four in a set, peach blossom colour. 
Pileus conical, pointed, blossom-colour, uneven at the edge. 
Stem hollow, beautifully white, two and a half inches high, quarter of an 
inch diameter. 
Edgbaston, by the stews, amongst grass; rare. 27th Oct. 1790. 
These plants are semi-transparent, tender and brittle. Bulliard’s mistake 
is in saying the gills are loose; they only become so when the pileus 
turns up as the plant approaches its decay, and then they are torn from 
the stem. His reference to Schaeffer, t. 75. is certainly erroneous, for 
that is Ag. integer. 
Ag. fis'sus. Gills pale red, broad, four in a set: pileus convex, scurfy: 
stem streaked. 
Gills fixed, salmon-coloured, broad, not numerous, rather fleshy, irregular, 
four in a set. 
Pileus convex, or bluntly conical, buff with a pinky tinge, scurfy, streaked 
at the edge, one and a half to two and a half inches over. Flesh hardly 
any. 
Stem hollow, streaked, reddish brown buff, cylindrical or compressed, four 
or five inches high; thick as a goose quill. 
(Streaked Salmon-coloured Agaric. E.) Woods at Edgbaston. Sept. 
Var. 2. Pileus dusky olive, conical, brown at the top: stem grey. 
Bolt. 35. 
Gills fixed, thin, flexible, of a colour between carnation and orange. 
Pileus striated at the edge, bluntly conical, one to two inches over. 
Stem hollow, pale grey, but closely examined appears to have fine longitu¬ 
dinal stripes of a mouse-colour and sily white alternately; frequently 
splits throughout its whole length, the edges of the divided parts rolling 
in so as to give the appearance of two stems supporting one pileus ; four 
or five inches high, thick as a goose quill. Bolton. 
Woods about Halifax. 
(4) Gills purple. 
Ag. lividopurpu'reus. Gills purple, few, brittle, four in a set: 
pileus purple, convex: stem purple, cylindrical, brittle. 
Bolt. 63. and 4. 
Gills fixed, fleshy, few, deep rich purple, four in a set. 
Pileus convex, waved at the edge, turning up with age and losing its colour; 
one and a half to two and a half inches over. 
Stem hollow, purple changing to brown ; two to three inches high, quarter 
of an inch diameter, splitting. 
(Brittle Purple Agaric. ]£,) Ag. amethystinus. Bolt, but that name was 
