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Pileus pale yellow, convex, rather conical, nearly flat when fully expanded, 
one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch diameter. 
Stem hollow, the tube very slender, yellow, polished, thick as a crow quill, 
half to one and a half inch high; often crooked. 
The whole plant of a delicate pale yellow; it grows in clusters. 
(Sulphuii-coloured Cellar Agaric. E.) Under the horizontal wooden 
door of a wine-vault, Edgbaston. Sept. 
Var. 1. Gills pale yellow, four in a set: pileus pale yellow, conical, smooth; 
stem dusky white. 
Bolt. 71. 1. 
Gills fixed by a fine point. 
Pileus glutinous, bell-shaped, pale dusky yellow, hardly half an inch high. 
Stem hollow, dusky white, one inch high, thickness of a thin crow quill. 
Whole plant tender, watery, pellucid, wrapped in a soft downy covering 
when very young. Bolton. 
Ag. aquosus. Bolton; not Ag. aquosus of Hudson, which is a variety of Ag. 
congi-egatus. 
On decayed wood, under the sprinklings of the stream of the Elm Cragg 
Well at Bellbank, near Bingley. April. 
(6) Gills buff. 
Ag. subcar/neus. (Batsch.) Gills buff, broad, four in a set: pileus 
convex, buff, darker in the centre, viscid, stem buff, polished. 
FI Ban. 1071. 2 —Batsch 100 —Schceff. 63. 
Gills fixed, buff, four in a set, broad, long ones about twenty-two. 
Pileus buff, convex, viscid, near half an inch diameter; when old nearly 
flat, but hollowed in the centre and cracking at the edge. Sometimes the 
pileus is nearly semi-globular, but the edge turned outwards like the 
brim of a hat. 
Stem hollow, the hollow nearly filled with pith, buff, viscid, polished, 
cylindrical, about one inch high, thinner than a crow quill. Ray Syn. p. 
8. n. 38. 
(Viscid Buff-cotoured Agaric: E.) Ag. campanulatus. Schseff. Ag. 
subcarneus. Batsch. Packington and Edgbaston parks, on decayed wood. 
7th Nov. 1790. 
Ag. scario'sus. Gills deep buff, four in a set: pileus convex, buff: 
stem whitish above, dark brown and scaly below: ring permanent, 
pale brown. 
Gills fixed, numerous, deep buff, four in a set. 
Pileus convex, rather bossed, pale buff, but the centre, and a circle round 
the border darker; half to one and a half inch over. Flesh white. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, thick as a raven’s quill, one and a half to two 
inches high, nearly white above the ring, dark brown below it; the dark 
part apparently rough with short, brown, slender, rising scales. Ring 
fixed near the gills, forming a beautiful pale brown fringe round the 
stem. Resembles Ag. nigripes. Bull. 344. but the gills in our plant are 
darker, and that has no ring. 
(Buff Scaly-stemmed Agaric. E.) Plantations, Edgbaston. 
3lst Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Gills uneven at the edge; pileus yellow brown, bell-shaped, blunt; 
stem pale buff; ring none. 
