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This very beautiful Agaric is readily distinguished by its
bright colours, which have gained it the appropriate name of
psittacinus. It bears the nearest affinity to Ag. conicus (Ag.
aurantius. Sow. t. 381.), from which, indeed, it is difficult to
separate it by a written character. The strongest difference
resides in the green colour, which is fortunately very constant.
It may be added, that the lamellae are crowded in Ag. conicus,
and not adnate with the stipes; that the pileus, when young,
forms a much higher cone, and that the margin is very irregular,
being frequently even lobed. The group to which the present
species belongs, is stated by F r i e s to possess mild properties,
but not to be used as food.
Fig. 1. A section o f a plant. Fig. 2. Spoi'ules, magnified.—AU the other f i gures
represent different states and forms o f the plant, the nat. size.
