ORYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Curt. 194— Batsch 110— Bull. 566. (Sowerby 248. 407. 408. E)— J. B. 
iii. 847. the upper figure good — Schaeff. 203. probably designed for it. 
Gills fixed, when very young whitish, but always grey at the edges, soon 
becoming entirely grey, and mottled, changing to chocolate with age ; 
four in a set in the smaller, eight in the larger plants; long ones about 
twenty or twenty-four, their edges forming an horizontal line from the 
stem to the edge of the pileus. 
Pileus nearly semi-globular, yellow, or buff, to brownish; very glutinous, 
wrinkled with age, three quarters of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, the perforation very fine and sometimes partly filled with a 
white pith, very pale buff, smooth, clammy, two to three inches high, 
thick as a crow quill. 
Curtain tough, fugacious, leaving a ring near the top of the stem, which 
does not continue long. 
Ray Syn.p. 7. n. 37. Hudson, p. 619. n. 33 , but not Schaeff. 210. Ray's 
description is very expressive. Major Velley. 
The whole plant is sometimes not larger than a large pin,—(though gene¬ 
rally of much more ample dimensions. E.) Curtis had named it gltt* 
tinosus, but that term had before been applied to more than one species, 
and the name given it by Batsch, which I have therefore preferred, is very 
expressive. 
(Glutinous Semi-globular Agaric. E.) Ag. semi-globatus. Batsch. 
Ag. lustre (nitens). Bull. Ag. virosus. Sowerby. (Purt. Ag. glutinosus. 
Relh. E.) Pastures, grass plats, not uncommon. July—Oct. 
*Var. 2. Stem livid. 
Pastures, in cow dung. Sept. Oct. Hudson. 
Var. 3. Gills brown grey, four in a set, long ones sixteen or eighteen: 
pileus pale buff, smooth, viscid, semi-globular, but pointed in the centre: 
stem white, viscid. 
Batsch 5— Schaeff'. 236, the figures agree better than the description. 
Pileus about half an inch over. 
Stem hollow, silky, nearly white, three inches high, thinner than a crow 
quill. 
Ag. griseus. Schaeff. Ag. pratensis. Batsch. (not of Sowerby, which is 
Ag. arcades, an edible kind. E.) Edgbaston plantations. 
31st. Oct. 1790.f* 
VI. HOLLOW AND LOOSE. 
(1) Gills white. 
Ag. collariatus. See Meralius collariatus. 
Ag. proce'rus. (Scop.) Gills white, uniform, fixed to a collar : pileus 
a broad cone, bossed, white brown, scaly: stem scaly: ring 
loose. 
4 (The varieties with acuminated pileus are decidedly unwholesome, and had nearly 
proved fatal to a family which had imprudently eat of them, according to the report of 
Mr. Brande, in Bradley’s Medical Journal. In France, as well as in this country, 
many persons have been destroyed by eating this mushroom. A whole family were 
lately so poisoned at Mitcham. Mr. Sowerby, with a zeal truly laudable, has endea¬ 
voured to discriminate by several plates, as also by his ingenious models, the varying, 
and"sometimes fatally delusive appearances of this plant. E.) 
