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Gills four in a set, but irregular, narrow, short ones numerous. 
Pileus smooth, clothy. 
■Stem scarcely any. Mr. Stackhouse. , 
Ag. semipetiolalus. Lightfoot. Ag. lateralis . Hudson. Bolt. On decayed 
branches of trees. Aug.—Dec. 
*Ag. mol'lis. (Dickson.) Gills ochre-coloured, eight in a set: pileus 
whitish, convex, variously shaped, almost gelatinous. 
Schceff. 213— Batsch 38— (Sowerby 98. E.) 
An inch or two in length, and half as much in breadth. Stem none. The 
whole of this Agaric is so soft and tender, as scarcely to bear handling. 
Pileus pale brown or dirty white, simple or variously lobed, waved 
or wrinkled. Gills pale yellow. Mr. Woodward. Stem, or more properly 
perhaps root , a small dark coloured substance. 
(Soft Agaric. Ag. mollis. Schseff. Pers. Purt. E.) Ag.canescens. Batsch. 
In the pine grove at Kirby, on moss. 
Ag. ficoi'des. Gills watery brown, four or eight in a set: pileus light 
yellow brown, surface cracked : stem short, light brown, clothy. 
Batsch 122— Bolt. 72. f. 1— Bull. 557. 1, much resembles it. 
Gills fixed to the stem, watery brown, four to eight in a set, connected by 
numerous cross threads. 
Pileus light yellowish brown, showing in the cracks a darker ground, like 
the surface of a dried fig, from one quarter to one and a half inch diame¬ 
ter, concave in the centre, edge turned down; sometimes rolled in, some¬ 
times plaited like a cockle shell. Flesh whitish brown. 
Stem lateral, short, hardly one quarter to half inch long and half that in 
diameter; thickest upwards, light brown, clothy, solid. Flesh reddish 
brown. 
(Candied Fig Agaric. E.) Ag. stypticus. Bull. Ag. betidinus. Bolt. Ag. 
depluens. Batsch. On an alder stump in considerable quantities adjoining 
to the west end of the large pool in Edgbaston park. Nov.—Jan. 
Ag. resupina'tus. Gills light brown : pileus light brown, flat: stem 
very crooked, eccentric. 
Batsch 121. 
Gills loose, light brown, mostly four in a set. 
Pileus light brown, flat, thin, about one quarter of an inch diameter, gene¬ 
rally reversed. 
Stem solid, eccentric, crooked, shorter than the diameter of the pileus. 
(Reversed Agaric. E.) Ag. Flurstedtiensis. Batsch. Not Ag. resupinatus 
of FI. Dan. On decayed wood overgrown with short moss in Packington 
park. Autumn. 
(3) Gills buff. 
Ag. renifor'mis. Gills pale buff, four in a set: pileus bright brown, 
kidney-shaped, curled and waved at the edge. 
Bolt. 157. 
Gills decurrent, tough, flexible, moderately broad, pale buff, darker when 
old, and sometimes scolloped at the edges. 
Pileus bright brown or red-deer colour, darker towards the stem, tough, 
fleshless, smooth like vellum, one and a half inch by two and a half. 
