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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Pileus about an inch and a half in diameter, convex when young, with the 
margin curled inwards, somewhat funnel-shaped when old. 
Stem an inch and a half long, rather smaller than a goose quill, cylindrical, 
hollow. 
Hybrid Agaric. Grows amongst decayed leaves, usually solitary. Hooker 
and Sowerby. June. E.) 
Ag. cuspida'tus. (Bolt.) Gills dusky brown, four in a set: pileus 
cinnamon colour, conical: stem brownish, cylindrical, smooth. 
Bolt. 66. 2. 
Gills loose, pale dusky brown, thin, pliable, four in a set. 
Pileus reddish brown, acutely conical, silky, smooth, even at the edge, one 
inch to the apex. 
Stem hollow, the perforation fine; brownish, cylindrical, smooth, hard, 
readily splits, four or five inches high. Bolt. 
(Pointed Cinnamon Agaric. E.) Ag. cuspidatus. Bolt. Where weeds 
or charcoal have been burnt. 
Var. 2. Gills buffy brown: pileus bluntly conical, buffy brown; stem very 
long and slender, buffy brown. 
In Lord Aylesford’s park at Packington. 
Ag. xylo'pes. Gills brown, numerous, four in a set; claws white: 
pileus buff, flattish: stem long. 
Gills loose, dead brown, numerous, tender, watery thin, termination next 
the stem, not in contact with it, white. 
Pileus full buff, nearly flat, central part wrinkled and somewhat bossed, 
thin at the edge, turning watery on the least bruise ; one to two inches 
over. Flesh thin, woolly, or spongy, brown white. 
Stem hollow, the cavity fine, with more or less of a white pith ; brownish 
white, rarely straight, cylindrical, but thicker and scored under the 
pileus, and again much thicker towards the root, size of a raven to that 
of a small goose quill, four to five inches high. 
Ring thin, ragged, brown white. Root a large irregular shaped mass, 
covered with a white cottony substance, which extends also about half 
an inch up the stem. 
(Tall Woolly-stemmed Agaric. E.) Fir plantations at Barr, Staf¬ 
fordshire. 28th June, 1792. 
Ag. contin'gens. Gills cool brown: pileus pale yellowish brown, 
widely conical, apex orange brown : stem white, silky, cracking. 
Gills loose, but touching the stem, cool brown, not broad, four in a set. 
Pileus widely conical, thin, pale yellowish brown, rather bossed and orange 
brown at the top, about three inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, silky, cracking, three to four inches high, a quarter of 
an inch diameter, cylindrical, somewhat crooked. 
(Orange-bossed Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford’s park at Pack¬ 
ington. Autumn. 
Ag. mutab'ilis. (Schseff.) Gills tawny, four in a set: pileus brown 
orange, convex, bossed: stem red brown below, scurfy, white 
above the ring. 
Schceff. 9 : the lower figures* 
