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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agabicus. 
watery green, soon "becoming covered by the seeds which are brown 
with a purplish cast. Flesh yellowish. 
Pileus when expanded nearly flat, but waved and wrinkled at the edge, 
deep buff, red brown in the centre, five to seven inches over. 
Stem hollow, tinted with lighter and darker shades of yellow brown, five 
to eight inches high, half an inch diameter. 
Mostly solitary. Cherry orchard, Edgbaston. Oct. 
Ag. auran'tius. Gills fixed, few, pale green, whitish at. the edges, 
four in a set, but irregular: pileus green, changing to yellow 
brown, convex, bossed, irregular: stem green above, yellow 
below. 
Ag. aurantius. V’ar. 3. See page 235. 
(8) Gills grey. 
Ag. carneo-plaVus. Gills grey, changing to dark chocolate: pileus 
bright red orange, widely conical: stem light brown: flesh 
yellow. 
Gills fixed, grey, turning to very dark brown. 
Pileus bright red orange, widely conical, bossed; one to three inches over. 
Stem hollow, light brown, scored: two inches and a half to three inches 
and a half high, nearly as thick as a goose quill. Curtain adhering to 
the stem. 
(Bright Orange Agaric. E.) In Lord Aylesford’s park at Packington. 
Ag. corona'tus. Gills grey, four or eight in a set: pileus brownish, 
grey, bluntly conical: stem whitish brown, cylindrical. 
Gills fixed, grey, four or eight in a set, sometimes not reaching the edge of 
the pileus. 
Pileus bluntly conical, flattish at the top, whitish brown or grey, darker in 
the centre, skin round the summit of the cone cracking in a circle, and the 
cracked edge turning up forms a kind of cup upon the pileus ; one to one 
inch and a half over. 
Stem hollow, whitish brown, cylindrical, crooked towards the root, split¬ 
ting, three to four inches high, thick as a raven quill. Ring white. 
(Crowned Agaric. E.) Edgbaston grove, not common. April. 
Var. 2. Gills grey, edged with white, eight in a set: pileus semi-globular, 
mealy white : stem mealy, white. 
Gills fixed, grey edged with white, black when old. 
Pileus entirely covered with a white meal, semi-globular, edge cooping in, 
two inches over. 
Stem with a fine hollow, smooth, covered with a white powder, perfectly 
cylindrical, six inches high, thicker than a raven’s quill; cottony at the 
base. 
When the mealy powder is rubbed off the pileus or stem, the skin appears 
of a pale livid brown colour. Sometimes it is found in a glutinous state, 
and then it resembles the following species, but the want of horizontality 
in the edge of the gills distinguishes it. 
Pastures, Edgbaston, but rare. July. 
Ag. semi-globa^tus. (Batsch.) Gills grey, mottled, four or eight in a 
set: edge horizontal: pileus greenish yellow, semi-globular: 
stem pale buffi 
