CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agabicus. 
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Gills loose, yellow brown, four in a set. 
Pileus brown, orange, or dull yellow, but changeable; one to one and a half 
inch over. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, red brown and scaly below, the scales pointing 
upwards, whitish above the ring. 
Curtain thready. Ring permanent, imperfect. Schaeffer. Gills not so 
closely set as in Ag. fascicular is, and also different in colour. Pileus, its 
varying form seems effected by the close and fasciculated growth, which 
in their tender state obtrude one upon another, as in the fascicularis. 
Major Velley. Schaeffer’s tab. 9. and also his description, good. Pileus 
very much varying in shape and often deformed. Mr. Woodward. 
Schaeffer’s tab. 9. contains two distinct plants, one with a hollow and one 
with a solid stem: one with a permanent ring and one without.* 
(Variably-shaped Agaric. E.) Ag. mutabilis. Schaeff. On decaying 
wood, common. Mr. Woodward. At Edgbaston, on rotten wood. Aug. 
Ag?. TiT f UBANS. Gills red brown, in pairs: pileus yellow, conical, ex¬ 
panding : stem yellow. 
(Sowerby 128. E.)— Bull. 425.1 ; but too strongly streaked and harshly 
coloured: PL 595. 2. more resembles our specimens. 
Gills loose, reddish brown, narrow, in pairs. 
Pileus conical, wide at the base, pale yellow, darker in the centre; edge 
striped with purplish brown, or rather mottled by the gills : about one 
inch high ; flat and turned up with age. 
Stem hollow, yellow, two and half to three inches high, thick as a raven 
quill. 
Whole plant very weak. It has a strong and highly disagreeable smell. 
(Salmon-gilled Agaric. Ag. titubans. Bull. Pers. Purt. E.) In Pack- 
ington park, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
(3) Gills red. 
Ag. auran'tius. Gills loose, pinky, fleshy, four in a set; pileus and 
stem pinky. 
Var. 4. Ag. auraniius , see page 234. 
Ag. cylin'dricus. Gills, pinky, uniform: pileus white, cylindrical, 
scaly: stem cylindrical, white. 
(Sowerby 189. E.)— FI. Dan. 834— Curt. ii. 16—( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 119. 
E.)— Schmid. Ic. t. 10— Schceff. 46. 47. 8 —Bolt. 44. 
Gills loose, distant from the top of the stem, numerous, white when very 
young, when in perfection pinky; changing to black and dissolving, 
uniform. 
Pileus cylindrical, white, covered with scurfy scales, splitting at the edge, 
four inches high, one and a half or two inches diameter.. Flesh none. _ 
Stem hollow, pithy, white, cylindrical, tender, four to eight inches high, 
half an inch diameter. 
Curtain small, white, connecting the pileus to the stem in its younger state, 
and leaving a Ring on the stem, loose, permanent. 
* (Distinctions which are now scarcely deemed specific. E.) 
