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GRYPTOQAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
pre-occupied. Bolton’s name for PI. 4. he himself discovered to have 
originated in error. 
*Var. 2. Whole plant of a dirty brownish flesh-colour. 
Bolt. 64. 
Bolton thinks this the same as his PI. 63. and says he finds no distinc¬ 
tion between them except in colour. If so, the dissections have been 
made carelessly, for the gills in this are drawn remarkably distant from 
the stem ,, whilst in PI. 4. and PI. 63. they are drawn as fixed to the stem. 
Perhaps however he is right, and the dissected figure may have been 
drawn from a plant in a weak or decaying state, when the gills may have 
separated from the stem. I suspect that the whole plant was in a dis¬ 
eased state. 
Ag. farinaceus. Bolt. Moist woods, on steep rocks. Packington park. 
Red rock plantation, Edgbaston. Aug.—Nov. 
(5) Gills yellow. 
Ag. auran'txus. (Lightfoot.) Gills yellow, fleshy, eight in a set: 
pileus conical, orange, edge uneven : stem yellow, splitting. 
Curt. 308 —(Sowerby 381. E.)— Schaeff. 2—Bull. 50 and 52 4. 3—Bolt. 67. 2 
—Tourn. 327. A. B. C—Fl. Dan, 833 —Batsch 28. 
Ag. stipitatus , pileo convexo , lamellis hasi mucrone dentatis. Linn. Gills 
pale yellow, angular at the base. Pileus deeper yellow, smooth, edge 
bent inwards. FI. Suec. 1206. See Ag. psittacinus; note at the bottom of 
the page. 
Gills fixed slightly to the stem, paler or deeper yellow, thick, fleshy, not 
numerous, irregular, four or eight in a set, long ones about thirty or 
forty. 
Pileus conical, satiny, glutinous, bright red or orange, or pale yellow; 
brownish, and even black with age ; the colour remaining longest at the 
edge; shape irregular, sometimes bossed, edge always uneven, soon 
cracking and turning up, three-fourths to one and a half inch from the 
base to the apex of the cone. Flesh yellow, tender, brittle. 
Stem hollow, pithy, pale yellow to deep saffron, streaked, often flatted or 
twisted, splitting, one to three inches high, quarter to half an inch 
diameter. 
(Orange Agaric. E.) Ag. dentatus. Linn. Huds. But I still retain the 
name given it by Lightfoot, because we have long been accustomed 
to associate it with the plant, and it is also more obviously characteristic 
than that of Linnaeus. Ag. conicus. Schaeff. (FI. Dan. Pers. E.) Ag. 
croceus. Bull. Ag. aurantius. Bolt. (Curt. Hook. Purt. E.) Ag. hyacin- 
thus. Batsch. Edgbaston park, plentiful on a grassy bank sloping to the 
east. Bungay Common, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Covers, upland 
pastures, and downs, near Bath. In woods and long grass the stem 
grows taller. Mr. Stackhouse. June—Oct. 
Var. 2. Pileus deep crimson : stem carmine colour; gills four in a set. 
Bull. 570. 2 — Schaeff. 2.f. 6. nearly represents it. 
Bulliard’s Ag. scarlatin is larger than our specimens, which are generally 
smaller than var. 1. Amongst short grass and moss. Very small, glossy, 
highly coloured; growing on commons amongst short grass. W oolhope, 
Herefordshire; Clowance, Cornwall. Mr. Stackhouse. Bulliard’s 59 8. 
L seems also to be the same. 
