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Schceff. 18. 19. 
{rills loose from the stem but fixed to a collar surrounding its top ; white ; 
four in a set, sometimes in pairs ; edges finely serrated with white glan¬ 
dular, or perhaps seminal substances. 
-Pilots convex, bossed, delicate tawny brown, the outer skin tearing as the 
plant enlarges, it shows a dead white ground freckled over with scurf or 
scales of the first brown colour, two to three inches over. Flesh white. 
Stem hollow, with a very fine, loose, silky pith; white, tapering upwards, 
splitting, three inches high, three-eighths diameter. 
Curtain white, fringing the head of the pileus when it tears. Ping perma¬ 
nent, fixed to the stem. Root but little larger than the stem. 
Ag. excoriatus. Schaeff. Ray Syn. p. 3. n. 11. 
This is a very beautiful plant, approaching in much of its structure so 
closely to Ag. procerus that it must be considered only as a variety of it; 
nor do I think the smooth white stem, or the more tender and fixed ring 
sufficient to establish it as a species; though its habit and smaller size 
might impress one with a different idea. 
Edgbaston park, under large Spanish chesnut trees. 4th Sept. 
Ag. sacchara'tus. Gills white, mostly uniform, narrow: pileus 
brown, flat: stem white, cylindrical. 
Gills loose, not reaching the stem, white, not numerous, uniform, but some* 
times one and very rarely two short gills intervening. 
Pileus pale brown, flat, darker in the centre, border scored, semi-trans¬ 
parent, surface sprinkled with remnants of a white wrapper like candied 
sugar, most frequent about the centre, two inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, three inches long, thick as a large goose 
quill. 
(Sugared Agaric, E.) Edgbaston park, on the bank opposite the long 
stew. 
*Ag. EXTiNCTohtius. (Linn.) Gills white, numerous, uniform; pileus 
white, bluntly conical: stem white. 
Bolt. 24— Bull. 437. 1. 2 —Battar. 27. IT. 
Ag. stipitatus, pileo campaniformi alhido lacero } lamellis niveis, stipite sub * 
bulboso subulalo nudo. Linn. 
Gills very white. Pileus convex, somewhat conical but expanding, dead 
white, surface scaly and torn, apex smooth. Stem dead white, thickest 
at the base, tapering, without a ring. FI. Suec. 
Gills uniform, thin, pure white, changing to pale brown. 
Pileus shaped like an extinguisher, but blunt at the top and uneven at the 
edge, white, changing to pale brown ; surface smooth at first, with age 
streaked or scaly; one or one inch and a half from the edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, with a downy cotton within, smooth, cylindrical, three to five 
inches high, three-tenths diameter. Bolton. Gills uniform, snow-white 
changing to blackish brown. Pileus flapping down the stem, yellowish 
or dirty white. Stem long, hollow, swelling at the base. Mr. Stack- 
house. 
(Extinguisher Agaric. E.) Ag. exiinctorius. Bull. Bolt. Amongst 
sand in moist and shady situations, but rare, about Halifax. I found it 
once at W oolhope, Herefordshire. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Ag. stercora'iiius. Gills white : pileus very thin, white or brownish, 
flat, bossed, edge rolling up: stem white, enlarging downwards. 
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