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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agaricus. 
Fl Dan. 832. 2—Bull. 128 —Battar. 27. D—Bolt. 39. C—Mich. 75. 6. 
When mature, perfectly horizontal on its stem: Mr. Stackhouse; but it 
hardly remains an hour in that state; the edge curls up, and it dissolves 
into a watery fluid containing innumerable black egg-shaped seeds. 
Gills touching, but not connected with, the stem ; grey, very fine and slen¬ 
der, uniform, sometimes split; when young, white. 
Pileus conical, soon becoming flat, grey, centre brown orange, extremely 
thin, nearly transparent, edge uneven, one to one and a half inch over. 
Stem hollow, beautifully white, cylindrical but rather tapering upwards, 
brittle, splitting, a little scurfy, two to four inches high, thick as a goose 
or crow quill. 
When fully expanded the gills and pileus appear as if composed of the 
same substance, but examined in a younger state the gills are quite white 
and the pileus the colour of horn. The streaks are only apparent, and 
caused by the upper edges of the gills being seen through the very thin 
membranous pileus. 
(Radiated Short-lived Agaric. E.) Ag- momentaneus. Bull. Ag. ere - 
nulatus. Fl. Dan. Pastures after continued gentle rain. Oct.—April. 
War. 2. Gills grey, uniform : pileus tawny brown, strongly streaked: stem 
white. 
(Fl. Dan. 1134. 2. E.)— Bolt. 5i—Schoeff. 201. 
Gills loose, uniform, grey, changing to black. 
Pileus egg-shaped, edge turned in, scolloped, reddish brown, two and a half 
inches from the edge to the apex. 
Stem hollow, white, five or six inches high, quarter of an inch diameter. 
Bolt. 
Ag. rufo-candidus. SchsefF. Single or in clusters; on the ground or on 
decayed wood. 
Ag. cine'reus. (SchgefF.) Gills grey, uniform, not reaching the stem: 
pileus grey, streaked, centre brown; stem white, tapering up¬ 
wards. 
(Fl. Dan. 119.5. E.)— Bolt. 20— Schceff. 100 and 216. 
Gills terminating at some distance from the stem, tender, watery. 
Pileus grey, plaited, conical, one and a half to two and a half inches over. 
Stem hollow, white, smooth, swelling below and tapering upwards like the 
flowering stem of an onion ; six to eight inches high, one-eighth to three- 
eighths diameter. Bolton. 
(Ash-coloured Agaric. Ag. cinereus. Pers. Hook. Purt. E.) Ag. 
Jimetarius. Huds. 617. Ag. pullatus. Bolt. (Pers. y. E.) Rich meadows, 
or dunghills. June. 
Var.2. Gills four in a set; pileus semi-transparent: stem in appearance 
horny. 
Bull. 88. 
Gills ending short of the stem, so as to form a channel round it, grey, broad, 
numerous. 
Pileus semi-transparent, smooth, but sometimes deeply furrowed, brown, 
flapping or hanging down at first, afterwards turning up, tearing at the 
edge, and finally the segments curling over. 
Stem hollow, horny. This is well described by Bulliard, and though of 
such apparent firmness it dissolves into an inky fluid, the stem often sujv 
viving the destruction of the pileus. Mr. Stackhouse, 
