CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Stem hollow, white, scurfy when young, splitting, two to three inches high, 
a quarter of an inch diameter. 
Bulliard justly observes that the edge of the pileus hangs down lower on one 
side than on the other. 
(Spangled Clustered Agaric. E.) Ag. striatus . Bolt. In clusters on 
the milking bank, Edgbaston, in a hollow where an elm had been felled, 
31st Oct. The crops repeated in the same season. In a similar situation 
in the Grove, 14th April. Poultry yard. Aug. 
War. 2. Gills white, black on the edges, wholly black when older, four in 
a set: pileus and stem downy. 
Bolt. 1 56—Bull. 138— Mich. 73. 3. 
Gills loose, white on the sides, but with a black powder at the edges, which 
soon extends over the whole surface. 
Pileus grey, downy; but this covering, tearing as it expands, remains in 
patches on the surface, which then appears elsewhere white and striated; 
conical, blunt, one inch and a quarter high. 
Stem hollow, covered like the pileus with a lead-coloured down, cylindrical, 
two inches and a half high, thick as a raven’s quill. Bolton. 
Ag. tomentosus. Bolt. Amongst wet moss on a peat bog near Ogden 
Kirk. 
Ag. mica'ceus. Gills white, changing to grey black: pileus pale 
yellow brown, spangled, conical: stem white. 
Bull.2 46. and 565 —( Grev . Scot. Crypt. 76. E.)— Schajf. 17— {FI.Dan. 
1193. E.) 
GUIs loose, white, but soon changing to grey, and almost to black, very 
numerous. 
Pileus pale yellow brown, more yellow at the top; conical, bossed when 
fully expanded, streaked and glittering, as if strewed with minute span¬ 
gles ; one inch and a quarter from the edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, cylindrical, three or four inches high, nearly as thick 
as a goose quill. 
The whole plant is tender, and the gills dissolve into a dark-coloured liquid. 
(Some recent authors suspect this species may not prove altogether dis¬ 
tinct from the two immediately preceding. E.) 
(Micaceous Agaric. E.) Ag. fuscescens. Schaeff. Ag. micaceus. (expressive 
of the young pileus being, as it were, sprinkled with small particles of 
mica. E.) Bull. Wet meadows. Oct. 
*Ag. fla'vipes. Gills brown white: pileus brown white, centre 
darker, bluntly conical, streaked: stem yellow. 
Schcejf. 31. 
Gills loose, brown white, four in a set. 
Pileus brown white, bluntly conical, scored, apex red brown, half to one 
inch diameter. 
Stem hollow, bright yellow, cylindrical, two inches and a half high, thick 
as a raven quill, tender and brittle. Schaeffer. 
(Yellow-stemmed Agaric. Ag. flavipes. Sibth. Pers. Purt. E.) Ag. 
plicatilis. Schseff. Headington Wick close, Oxfordshire. Dr. Sibthorpe. 
Oct. 
Ag. luteo-al'bus. (Bolt.) Gills white, foyr in a set: pileus yellow, 
conical, scored: stem pale yellow. 
