Excerpt from The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith; Class XXIV. Cryptogamia, Vol. 5: Or Vol; II. Of Hooker's British Flora, Part II., Comprising the Fungi Hymenium consisting of plates radiating from a common centre, with shorter ones in the interstices, composed of a double closely connected membrane, more or less distinct from the. Pileus. Veil various or absent.-named from Agaria, a region of Sarmatia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.