CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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The want of a collar at the top of the stem separates this from Ag. 
procerus. 
(Mottled Agaric. E.) Ag. meleagris. With. Ed. 2. Edgbaston park, 
not frequent. 11th Oct. 1790. 
Var. 2. Stem quite white : ring white, delicate. 
Bull. 506. 2. L. 
This is a very small variety, the pileus hardly three quarters of an inch 
over, the stem one inch high, the size of a crow quill. 
Ag. clypeolarius. Bull. Cherry orchard, Edgbaston, a single specimen. 
Sept. 
Var. 3. Stem without a ring, pileus beautifully mottled. 
Bull. 40 5—Bolt. 7. 
Gills loose, pure white, numerous, tender and delicate, four in a set, but 
not very regular; in the larger specimens running close up to the stem, 
though not united to it. 
Pileus convex, expanded, centre rich red brown, white towards the border, 
but beautifully mottled with red scurfy freckles, two inches and a half 
over. Flesh white, very tender. 
Stem hollow, red buff below, paler upwards, tender, splitting, cylindrical 
but rather tapering upwards, three inches high, half an inch diameter. 
Pileus at first sharply conical, smooth, white, mottled, boss darker. Stem 
brown, splitting into threads. Gills easily separating, fleshy, few. Cur¬ 
tain white, delicate, fugacious, but leaving some marks on the stem, and 
on the edge of the pileus. It has a disagreeable smell. 
(Ag. clypeolarius. Bull. Hook. De Cand. Purt. Ag. colubrinus. Pers. Ag. 
cristatus. Bolt, and of Pers. y, according to Purton. E.) Woods near 
Bath. Powick, near Worcester; pastures, Woolhope, Herefordshire. 
Mr. Stackhouse. In a pine grove, Ditchingham, Norfolk. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward ; who sent me a very accurate description of it before he knew that 
it had been found elsewhere. Edgbaston park, amongst grass, very 
rare. August. 
Ag. carno^sus. Gills white, crowded, four or eight in a set: pileus 
convex, dirty white, with reddish blotches and centre reddish : 
stem dirty white, blotched: ring none. 
Curt. 315 —(Sowerby 246. E.)— Buxb. hall, row the last, marked p. 122. 
Gills loose, very numerous, narrow, white, changing to a reddish brown. 
Pileus convex, nearly flat with age, whitish but blotched with rusty red, 
and almost wholly red in the centre, smooth, one to three inches over. 
Flesh white, firm, twice as thick as the gills are broad. 
Stem hollow, clumsy, often spotted with rusty red, faintly striated, cylin¬ 
drical, but tapering at the root, three inches high or more, three-eighths 
diameter. Flesh white, firm, in thickness equal to the diameter of the 
hollow. Curt. FI. Lond. v. 53. 
(Fleshy Blotched Agaric. Ag. clypeolarius. var. 3. With. Ed. 5. 
Growing in clusters, in Lord Mansfield's pine wood, Hampstead. Mous- 
hold Heath, near Norwich. Sowerby. E.) Pine grove, Kirby. Mr. 
Woodward. Sept. 22d. 
Ag. allla/ceus. Gills white, irregular: pileus dark brown at top, 
paler at the edge : stem almost black : root crooked, knotted. 
Jacq . Austr, 82—(Sowerby 81 —Puri* H, E.) 
