CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
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Pileus yellow brown with dark blood-red streaks, convex,, rather bossed, 
two and a half inches over. Flesh very thick towards the stem,, pale 
yellow. 
Stem hollow, light brown, scored, cylindrical, two and a half inches high, 
near half an inch diameter, spreading out at the top so as to form one 
substance with the pileus. 
(Blood-red Streaked Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford’s park, 
Packington, Warwickshire. Autumn. 
Ag. auran'tius. Gills loose, yellow, two, three, or four in a set; 
pileus and stem pinky. 
Var. 5. Ag. aurantius . See page 234. 
(6) Gills grey. 
Ag. ova'tus. (Scop.) Gills silvery grey, uniform: pileus grey brown, 
plaited: stem white. 
Curt. 101— Schceff. 67. 68— Vaill. xii. 10. 11—( Sowerhy 188. E.) 
Gills loose, in contact with but not fixed to the stem ; silvery grey changing 
to black, very numerous, and so close set that it is hardly practicable to 
separate them; uniform, deliquescent. 
Pileus brown white or silvery grey, egg-shaped to bell-shaped, with 
remarkable plaits or folds extending from the edge nearly to the centre 
from three to four inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, brown at the base, tender, cylindrical, three to four 
inches high, two-eighths to three-eighths diameter, thickest down¬ 
wards. 
Curtis discovered that the sides of the gills are connected to each other 
by very fine filaments, which accounts, as he observes, for the dif¬ 
ficulty of separating them. I suspect Lightfoot’s Ag. plicatus to be a 
different plant, for he describes the gills as terminating short of the stem 
and leaving a vacant circle round the top of it. 
(Grey Puckered Agaric. Ag. ovatus. Curt. Relh. Hook. Purt. Ag. 
plicatus. Pers. E.) Ray Syn. p. 5. n. 22. Ag.striatus. Huds. 617. Ag. 
fugax. Schasff. At the bottom of a gate post. 16th Oct. 
Ag. conspee/sus. Gills grey, uniform: pileus white, beautifully 
frosted : stem white. 
Bull. 542. 2. 
Gills loose, uniform, grey when full grown, but soon dissolving into a black 
liquor: quite white when young. 
Pileus watery white, but incrusted with beautiful white flakes; thin as 
tissue paper, very soon curling up and dissolving into a watery fluid, 
replete with black seeds: one and a half inch from the edge to the 
apex. 
Stem hollow, tapering upwards, pure white, five inches high; thick as a 
raven’s quill. 
(Frosted Agaric. Ag. conspersus. Purt. Ag. radiatus. Bolt. Pers. E.) 
Ag. stercorarius. Bull. On dunghills and in poultry yards. June. 
Ag. momenta'neus. (Bull.) Gills grey, uniform; pileus grey, 
streaked: centre brown orange: stem white. 
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