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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Stem hollow, white, scurfy when young, scored at full growth, about one 
inch high, thick as a goose quill. 
(Cylindrical Frosted Agaric. E.) Ag. lignorum. Schaeff. In clusters 
of slow growth. On the stump of a tree sawn off horizontally. Nov. 
Var. 2. Gills quite white,much smaller than the preceding, and growing on 
the ground. 
Gills loose, but the edges making impressions on the stem, white, semi¬ 
transparent, yellowish with age, in pairs. 
Pileus cylindrical, or rather egg-shaped, extending half way down the stem, 
brown yellow, scored, frosted, uneven at the edge, two-eighths to three- 
eighths of an inch high. 
Stem hollow, white, woolly, half to one inch high, thinner than a crow 
quill. 
Kay Syn. p. 10. n. 53. Ag. fuliginosus. Huds. 620. 
Schaejfi. 308. very much resembles it, except in having yellowish gills and 
a solid stem. Bull. 94. not unlike it, but four times as large, and the 
gills four in a set. 
Gills turning black with age. Pileus oblong, never turned up, not described 
since the time of Kay. 
Several hundreds growing together on short grass under trees. Pear-tree 
Walk, Woolhope, Herefordshire. Mr. Stackhouse. Not uncommon. 
Mr. Woodward. Among short grass, plentiful, Edgbaston park. 
6th Aug. 
War. 3. Gills white, brown when old, four in a set: pileus rich olive : 
stem brown. 
Bolt. 154. 
Gills loose, white, turning brown with age, tough, flexible, distant, four in 
a set. 
Pileus conical, rich olive, darkest at the top, edge scored and turning up 
when old, one inch and a half to the apex. 
Stem hollow, dusky reddish brown, tough, two inches high, thick as a 
raven’s quill. Bolton. 
Ag. pseudo-clypeatus. Bolt. On stumps of fallen trees. Oct. 
Var. 4. Gills brownish white, changing to reddish brown ; uniform: pileus 
scored, light brown, yellowish and smooth at top.. 
Gills loose, numerous, uniform, watery brownish white, changing to reddish 
brown, and then to dark chocolate. 
Pileus light brown, deeply scored, smooth and yellow brown at the top, 
cylindrical, edge irregular, rather turned in, three quarters of an inch 
high, broad, at the top, 
Stem hollow, white, one inch and a half high, thick as a raven’s quill. 
Pasture land, Edgbaston, in clusters. July. 
Ag. congrega'tus. (Bull.) Gills white, with grey edges, two or four 
in a set: pileus conical, brown buff, sides furrowed: stem white, 
smooth. 
Bolt. 54. the small figures — (Sowerby 261. E.) 
Gills loose, white, edges grey, spangled, two or four in a set; black with 
age, and deliquescent. 
Pileus conical, brown buff, apex a darker brown, surface strongly streaked, 
or rather furrowed, edge very uneven, bending in towards the Stem, one 
and a half to two inches over. 
