CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Agabicus. 
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Pileus conical, afterwards expanding, smooth at first, when expanded 
scored and plaited, alternately brown and lead-coloured ; one inch and a 
half over. It dissolves the second day into a brown liquor. 
Stem hollow, whitish grey, five or six inches high, thick as a swallow's 
quill. Curtain evanescent, its remains only appearing on the stem whilst 
very young. Bolton. 
(Striped Agaric. E.) Ag. campanulatus. /3. Huds. Bay Syn. 8. 41. Ag. 
plicatus . Bull. Ag. companulatus. Bolt. Meadows, plentiful. 
Sept.—Oct. 
Var. 2. Gills two or four in a set: pileus, plaits regular, centre smooth, 
brown. Mr. Stackhouse. 
*Ag. cinc'tulus. (Bolt.) Gills dark blackish grey, four in a set. 
pileus brown bay with darker belts, conical ; stem dirty brown. 
Bolt. 162. {not Schasff. 48.) 
Gills loose, dusky black, broad in the middle, tender, brittle. Pileus a 
broad blunt cone, red-deer colour, with a broad dark brown belt, which 
colour penetrates the whole substance : two to three inches over. Stem 
hollow, dull dirty brown, cylindrical, three inches high, nearly as thick as 
a goose quill. Bolton. 
(Belted Agaric. E.) Ag. suherosus. Bolt. On dunghills after rain. Pas¬ 
tures, South Leigh, Oxford. Dr. Sibthorpe. June—July. 
Ag. rhomboids'us. Gills purplish grey, broad, four in a set: pileus 
widely conical, very dark brown: stem light grey, scored. 
Gills loose, grey with a purplish tinge, broad, shouldering up to the stem 
but not united to it, nearly rhomboidal in shape. 
Pileus very dark brown, shining, not viscid, cylindro-conical, bossed, un¬ 
even at the edge, one to one inch and a half high. 
Stem hollow, light grey, cylindrical, scored, two to two inches and a half 
high, nearly as thick as a goose quill. 
(Rhomboidal Agaric. E.) In the Earl of Aylesford’s park, Packington, 
Warwickshire. Autumn. 
B. Stems lateral. 
(1) Gills white . 
Ag. labyrinthifor'mis. Gills white, variously anastomosing: pileus 
white, semi-circular, downy: stem lateral, brown white, knotty. 
Schaeff. 43 and 44. resemble the plant, hut have more colour and the stem 
is less knotty . 
Gills decurrent, white, variously anastomosing, and though generally 
parallel, sometimes assuming the form of circular or angular cavities like 
the pores of a Boletus. 
Pileus white, semi-circular, irregularly scolloped at the edge, covered with 
a short woolly down ; two to four inches over. Flesh white. 
Stem solid, four or five inches long, thickness of a little finger, tough, very 
knotty, dirty brownish white. 
(Anastomosing Agaric. E.) Plantations, Edgbaston, on the ground 
amongst moss. 13th Sept. 1 T91. 
Ag. ses'silis. (Bulliard.) Gills white to yellow brown, the long ones 
forked; pileus milky white, flat, thin. 
