CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus* 
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Bull. 392. B—(Sowerby 324. E.)— Schceff. 237. 
Gills loose, flesh red, liver-colour, or chocolate with age, numerous, fouir in 
a set. 
Pileus a broad blunt cone, pale buff, centre darker; the whole darker with 
age, semi-transparent, one and a half inch over, cracking at the edge and 
becoming striated as it expands. 
Stem hollow, white, splitting, cylindrical, smooth, one and a half to two 
inches long, thick as a raven's quill. 
Curtain white, delicate, fugacious, hanging in fragments at the edge of the 
pileus, but soon vanishing after it is gathered. 
Growing in large patches, very much crowded together, so that it is rare to 
see the pileus uniformly expanded. Dissolves into a brown watery fluid. 
Bulliard’s figure is a good representation of our plant, but larger, and the 
gills rather too much of a salmon-colour. Schseff. 237, to which he refers, 
is a different species. 
(Fringed Agaric. Ag. stipatus. (3. Pers. Ag. appendiculatus. Bulb 
Purt. E.) Ag. spadiceo-griseus. Schseff. Cherry orchard, Edgbastoh. 
27th Aug. 1791. 
Ag. lacrymabun'dus, (Bull.) Gills dull red, broad, numerous, two or 
four in a set: pileus dirty brown, conical, woolly: stem hollow, 
dirty white. 
(Soiverby 41. E.)— Bull. 525. 3. and 194. 
Gills loose, dirty, brownish red, liver-coloured with age, close set, broad^ 
speckled with black when old, exuding spontaneously a thin milky fluid, 
which when concreted forms the black specks. 
Pileus dirty, brown, bluntly conical, flat and bossed when old, woolly, with¬ 
out flesh except at the top, edge turned in, one and a half inch from the 
edge to the top. 
Stem hollow, dirty white, or paler brown than the pileus, two to three inches 
high, two-eighths to three-eighths diameter ; splitting. 
Curtain white, cobweb like, many of its threads extending from the stem 
to the edge of the pileus. Juice like thin milk; not acrid. Specimen, 
description, and drawing from Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Weeping Agaric. Ag. velutinus. Pers. Ag. lacrymabundus. Bull. Hook. 
Purt. E.) Common in the woods of Herefordshire, and sometimes in 
open pastures. 
Ag. reticula'tus. Gills pale flesh colour, mostly in pairs: pileu^ 
convex, brown, with net-work on the centre: stem watery 
white. 
Gills loose, in contact but not connected with the stem, pale whitish flesh 
colour, moderately numerous, in pairs, with sometimes one of a third 
series intervening. 
Pileus brown, centre darker, convex, nearly flat when full grown, its central 
part covered with a kind of net-work rising considerably above the sur-* 
face, half to three quarters of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, watery white, scored^ one inch high, thinner than a crow 
quill. 
The net-work is of a firm cartilaginous texture, rather a darker brown thait 
the rest of the pileus, and remaining perfect after the other parts of the 
plant are decayed and dissolved. 
(Reticulated Agaric. E.) Edgbaston pool dam, very scarce. 
6th Aug. 1791,. 
