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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
(4) Gills buff. 
Ag. margina'tus. Gills buff, few, narrow, four in a set : pileus buff, 
conical, edge thin, turned in: stem buff. 
Batsch 287; (but as is usual with his figures smaller than our plants.) 
Gills loose, few, narrow, light buff. 
Pileus buff, leather-like, smooth, skinny or membranaceous at the edge, 
which is very much turned in, conical, bossed, the boss darker colour : 
one and a half inch high. Flesh thick, white. 
Stem hollow, buff, darker, downwards, four inches high, thick as a goose 
quill. Ring , when present, cottony, brown buff. 
(Thin-edged Agaric. E.) Ag. marginatus. Batsch. Found by Mr. 
Relhan in Madingley Wood, and White Wood, near Gamlingay. In the 
park at Packington, Warwickshire. 
*Ag. dryophyi/lus. (Bull.) Gills pale brown buff, broad, few, four 
in a set: pileus dead whitish colour, nearly flat: stem white, 
gently tapering upwards. 
Bolt. 6 Bull. 434, with several variations in the colour of the stem and 
pileus. —( Sowerby. 127. E.) 
Gills loose, faint dusky flesh-colour, soft, pliable, tender. 
Pileus convex, nearly flat when fully expanded, tender watery, thin, four or 
five inches diameter. 
Stem hollow, shining, gradually tapering upwards, sometimes twisting, 
splitting into fibres, surface irregular, five inches high, near half an inch 
diameter. Bolton. Pileus when fully grown sinking in the centre. 
(Leaf Agaric. Ag. repandus. Bolt. Ag. dryophyllus. Bull. Purt. De Cand. 
Pers. E.) Shady woods. Aug.—Sept.t 
Var. 2. Gills pale brown buff, numerous, irregular : pileus dark brown, flat, 
velvety: stem pale brown, short. 
Bull. 434. D. 
Gills loose, pale brown or buff, numerous, irregular. 
Pileus dark brown, flat, centre depressed, surface velvety to the touch. 
Stem hollow, pale brown, short. Juice milky, mild. Specimen and de¬ 
scription from Mr. Stackhouse. 
Coplar wood, near Hereford. Sept. 1791. 
Var. 3. Gills nearly white : pileus reddish buff: stem reddish. 
Bull. 434 ; upper figures. 
Gills loose, four or eight in a set, nearly white, pretty closely set. 
Pileus flattish, unequally waved at the edge, one to one and a half inch 
over, reddish buff, sometimes streaked at the edge, dimpled in the 
centre. 
Stem hollow, reddish, paler and thinner upwards, two inches high, thick as 
a raven’s quill. Root crooked. 
Edgbaston red rock plantation, amongst decayed leaves. Sept. 
Ag. nodo'sus. Gills pale buff, four in a set: pileus convex, pale buff, 
darker in the centre ; stem light buff : root a knob. 
t (Mr. Sowerby observes this to be a very common species, occasionally forming 
circles like Ag* or cades, E.) 
