246 CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Gills loose, pale, unequal, mostly four in a set, long ones sometimes cloven: 
they are loose from the stem, but fixed to a fleshy ring underneath the 
pileus. 
JPileus bluntly conical, dark brown at the top, paler towards the edge, scored, 
smooth, opake, one inch and a half over. 
Stem hollow, blackish downwards, shining, straight, firm, four to six inches 
high. 
Moot crooked, thick, knotty, sunk about an inch into the earth, and always 
attached to rotten wood. Always solitary. Has a strong offensive 
garlic smell/ which it retains for days after it has been gathered. Lin-* 
naeus supposed it to be a variety of his Ag. campanulatus. Jacquin. 
(Garlic Agaric. E.) Ag. alliaceus. Jacq. but not of Bulliard, for that has 
a stem hairy on the outside and solid within. (Though Sowerby’s figure 
represents the stem as hollow, in his description he assures us that it is 
often solid. E,,)* 
Mr. Relhan found this plant in woods and shady places attached to decayed 
wood, and oak leaves, and particularly in Madinglev plantations. It has 
lately been found also in woods about Packington, Warwickshire. Sept. 
Ag. ochra'ceus. (Schaeff.) Gills white, four in a set; pileus buf^ 
convex, semi-transparent: stem buffy white. 
Sclueffl 255. 
Gills loose, white, four in a set, but the smaller series irregular. 
Fileus buff, convex, semi-transparent, flat with age, and uneven at the 
edge, one to one inch and a half over. 
Stem hollow, buffy white, semi-transparent, cylindrical but crooked, where 
the root begins, one to two inches high, thick as a crow quill. 
Substance tender, so as not easily to be gathered from amongst the grass 
without breaking. In Schaeffer’s figure, referred to above, the gills are 
too highly coloured, and do not agree with his description. 
(Fragile Ochraceous Agaric. E.) Edgbaston park. Sept. 1791. 
Yar.2. Gills eight in a set; pileus red brown, darker at the edge, stem 
white. 
The island, Edgbaston pool. 22d June, 1791. 
Var. 3. Gills yellowish watery white, eight in a set; pileus rich red brown, 
pale at the edge, cracking : stem as dark, or darker than the pileus. 
The stem so disposed to split that it is hardly possible to gather it entire. 
The gills leave an impression at the top of the stem, as if they had been 
fixed to it before the expansion of the pileus. 
Ag. lacer. SchaefF. Under an oak, by the side of the great pool, Edgbas¬ 
ton. 21st June, 1792. 
Var. 4. Gills eight in a set, often forked; pileus brown buff; stem red 
chesnut. 
Pileus very thin, semi-transparent, much crumpled and waved at the edge, 
from one to two inches over. Stem hollow, flatted, frequently grooved 
or channelled on each side, so as almost to be divided lengthwise; deep 
red chesnut below, paler upwards, but sometimes darker upwards, and 
white at the top. 
Red rock plantation, Edgbaston. Sept. 
* (This is one instance of several which might be adduced to prove what is now 
admitted as a general principle, that the hollow or solid stem cannot always be relied 
on as a specific distinction, Vid, With, vol, 1. p, 380. E.) 
