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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Edge of the pileus very dark coloured, and turned up. 
On rotten wood, Packington park. Autumn. 
Ag. flocco'sus. (Schseff.) Gills buff*, two or four in a set; pileus con¬ 
vex, bright bay, tufted with dark hair: stem brown bay, tufted. 
Curt. 264, very large —( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 2 —Sowerhy 284. E.)— Schaff. 
61. size of our plants — Bull. 266. gills much darker than ours—Batsch 30 
—(not Battart. 8. H.for that partis entirely white.) 
Gills fixed, buff, turning brownish, numerous, two or four in a set, but 
irregular. 
Pileus bright bay, set with dark triangular pencils of hair, (shaggy; or, 
according to Mr. Greville’s accurate description, “ tufts of hair collected 
into rigid, bristly points, somewhat erect and revolute, rarely de¬ 
pressed: ” E.) convex when young, bossed in middle age, concave when 
old, edge turned down, one and a half to two inches over. 
Stem hollow, brown, fibrous or hairy, two inches high, nearly as thick as a 
goose quill. Curtain fugacious. Ring permanent. 
The base of the stem occasionally a little bulbous, hard, and blackish. 
Sowerby. (Mr. Purton is of opinion that the solid or hollow stem affords 
no permanent character in this species. This ingenious author, in the 
“ Midland Flora,” suspects that our description rather refers to Ag. 
squamosus, than to the true Ag. floccosus (Ap. p. 416); but he himself 
describes the latter as “ perfectly shaggy ” (p.645), whereas he justly 
observes in the former “ the scales are not raised up and shaggy ” (p. 
634), but resembling those of Bol. squamosus. E.) 
A rare species. Gathered in the park at Edgbaston. 
(Shaggy Agaric. E.) Ag.floccosus. Schaeff. Grev. Ag. squamosus. Bull. 
(Ag.flammans. Batsch. E.) 
( 7 ) Gills yellow. 
Ag. flaVicans. Gills pure yellow : pileus yellow, nearly flat, with an 
orange boss: stem yellow. 
Gills fixed, yellow, narrow, four in a set. 
Pileus yellow, with an orange-coloured boss; nearly flat, one inch dia¬ 
meter. 
Stem hollow, yellow, splitting, one to one and a half inch high, thick as a 
raven quill. 
The pileus is nearly flat even in the younger state of the plant. Not much 
unlike Ag. scariosus, but differs in colour, and in the want of a ring. 
(Orange-bossed Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford's park at Pack¬ 
ington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
( 8 ) Gills green. 
Ag. fascicula'iiis. (Huds.) Gills brown green, four in a set: pileus 
yellow and orange: stem yellow. 
Schaff. 49. 1. 2. 3— Bolt. 29— (Sowerhy 285. E.)— J. B. iii. 835. 
Gills fixed, pale brown with a greenish cast, changing to dark olive brown; 
very numerous. 
Pilous, more or less conical, yellow, clothy, brown orange in the centre, 
which is sometimes rather bossed: one and a half to two inches over. 
