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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agakicus. 
This beautiful but fugacious plant has been extremely well figured by the 
authors cited above,, but our best English botanists have fallen into an 
error in supposing it to be Ag. Jhnetarius of Linnaeus, as will be evident 
to those who will take the trouble to compare the figures or the descrip¬ 
tions. That has white gills, changing to black, this fine pink or rose 
red; that is egg-shaped, this cylindrical; that grows on dunghills, this in 
open pastures. 
A young plant put into water and covered with a glass bell, grew three 
inches and a quarter in twelve hours. In decay it deliquesces in form of 
a dark-coloured fluid hanging in drops on the gills. The outer white boat 
of the pileus is sometimes so thin as to allow the inner pinky colour to 
appear through it, especially towards the bottom of the pileus. 
(Deliquescent Cylindrical Agaric. Ag-. cylindricus. Hook. Purt. Ag. 
Jhnetarius. Curt. Bolt. Ag. porcellaneus. SchsefF. Ag. comatus. FI. 
Dan. Pers. E.) Amongst rushes, 17th Sept. In an open pasture field, 
2d May.f 
Var. 2. Gills fine red: pileus white and downy, soon changing to red: ring 
permanent. 
Bolt. 142. 
Gills loose, uniform, carnation-coloured. 
Pileus at first white, downy; this white down disappears and the surface 
becomes striated and of a livid carnation colour: cylindrical when young, 
bluntly conical and turning up with age, one and a half inch from the 
edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, splitting, tapering upwards, three inches high, three- 
eighths diameter. Bing near the bottom of the stem white, permanent. 
Bolton. It principally differs from the preceding in the abrasion of the 
white downy outward coat of the pileus, which may be merely accidental, 
and then from the extreme tenuity of the inner membrane the red of the 
gills becomes visible. 
Ag. oblectus. Bolt. On new dunghills, but rare. In the garden field at 
Edgbaston. 24th July. 
*Var. 3. Gills pinky, uniform: pileus light brown, mottled, conical. 
Bolt. 26— Battar. 26. D. E. F. 
Gills loose, distant from the top of the stem, pale pinky grey, uniform, nu* 
merous, broad, dissolving. 
Pileus conical, very uneven at the edge, light brown, set with fragments of 
a very pale grey brown cottony wrapper, which inclosed the pileus only 
in its young state ; one and a quarter inch from the edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, shining, three or four inches high, thick as a goose 
quill, often remaining after the decay of the pileus. Bolt. Common in 
dry vaults, cottages, and under carpets on ground floors. Bolton’s 
figure and description very just, but he has delineated one of the largest 
of the species. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Ag. domesticus. Bolt. In clusters on wet decayed wood in cellars and damp 
kitchens. 
Ag. appendicula'tus. (Bull.) Gills brown red to chocolate, four in a 
set: pileus pale buff^ conical: stem white. 
t (The inky fluid, boiled with a little water, and spice enough to preserve it from 
becoming mouldy* and filtered, proves an excellent bistre-colour fit for the pencil. 
Bull, E.) 
