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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
The whole plant of a tender texture and semi-transparent. 
(Waxy Agaric. E.) Dry pastures, Edgbaston. Sept.* 
Ag. psittaci'nus. (Schaeff.) Gills bright yellow, four in a set: 
pileus fine green and rich buff, bluntly conical: stem green. 
( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 7 4>—-Sowerby 82. E.)— Schtcjf. 301— Battar. 21. E . 
Gills fixed slightly to the stem, full bright yellow, four in a set; long gills 
about twenty-one; edge scolloped, but without any particular pointed 
tooth at the base. 
Pileus bluntly conical, rich buff, border when young beautifully green, 
viscid, paler with age and the edge turning up, three-fourths of an inch 
over. 
Stem hollow, beautifully green, smooth, slimy, tender, splitting one inch 
high, thick as a crow quill. When old the green on the upper part 
remains, whilst the lower becomes yellow. 
The whole plant viscid and slimy. The green colour here seems, as in Ag. 
ceruginosus , to be contained in the slimy coating, which being laid on a 
golden ground acquires such an unusual brilliancy. It wears or washes 
from the central and projecting part of the pileus and then shows the 
yellow ground, but it remains longest on the upper part of the stem, 
because there protected by the shelter the pileus affords. 
(It bears the nearest affinity to Ag. conicus. Ag. aurantius. Sowerby 381.) 
the strongest difference resides in the green colour, which is very con¬ 
stant. Greville. E.) 
(Paroquet Agaric. E.) Ag. psittacinus. Schteff. Pool dam, and the 
Red Rock plantation in Edgbaston park. Aug. Sept. 
Var. 2. Pileus ruby red, centre yellowish: stem ruby red, yellowish at the 
base. 
Schceff. 302. excellent. 
Gills fixed, yellow, fleshy, four in a set. 
Pileus convex, flatted, bright ruby red, but the centre more tawny and 
with age the yellow cast spreads towards the edge; one and a quarter 
inch over. Flesh yellow or tawny. 
Stem hollow, very fine, but soon enlarging by the shrinking of the spongy 
flesh, red above, tawny or yellow below, splitting, nearly cylindrical, one 
and a half inch high, thick as a large swan’s quill. 
The gills are always yellow at first, but as the plant grows older the ruby 
tinge of the pileus pervades them, leaving them only yellow at the edges. 
Ag. dentatus of Hudson and Relhan: (after Schaeffer, who erroneously 
supposed it to be the Ag. dentatus of Linn. E.) Dr. Sibthorpe refers Ray 
Syn. 7. 33. to this plant; but Ray describes his Agaric as becoming 
inverted and forming when old a funnel-shaped pileus, whereas the 
brittle texture of the plant before us will scarcely admit of such an 
inversion ; it cannot even become flat without cracking. 
Red Rock plantation, Edgbaston. 3d Oct. 1791. 
Ag. crypta^rum. Gills pale yellow, four or eight in a set: pileus 
pale yellow: convex, smooth : stem yellow, slender, smooth. 
Gills fixed, brimstone yellow, numerous, narrow, eight in a set. 
* (It tastes like the common mushroom, Ag, campe$tris } and no doubt is equally 
wholesome, Sowerby. E.) 
