of the neighbourhood of Bristol. 249 



the autumn. A most distinct and interesting species : the 

 strong mousy odour and bright verdigris green stripe at once 

 distinguish it. 

 Ag. torvus. Stapleton Grove ; perhaps not uncommon. 

 Ag. violaceus, Linn. In several places in the parish of Stapleton. 

 Ag. radicosus, Bull. Leigh Wood. Smell exactly like cherry laurel 



water. 

 Ag. adiposus, Batsch. Very rare. On an old ash, Redland. 

 Ag. squarrosus, Mull. On trunks of various trees. Very com- 

 mon. 

 Ag. mutabilis. On a bank where a willow tree had been cut down. 



April. 

 Ag.fastibilis. In clusters on an old ash tree, with a distinct veil. 



I should not have at first recognised this plant as a variety of Ag. 

 fastihilis for the smell resembled Ag. melleus and the taste was plea- 

 sant ; but on keeping the specimens a few days, as the sporules 

 ripened, the characteristic odour of Ag. fastibilis appeared; the 

 sporules, too, exactly accorded in colour and figure. 

 Ag. obscurus, Pers. Synop. p. 347. No. 163. Albertini and Schwein, 

 Consp. p. 174. No. 504. It is singular this Agaric has not 

 been described as British, as it is a very common species with 

 us, growing on the naked soil in all the woods about Bristol. 

 It is in many respects a remarkable plant, the odour is strong 

 but pleasant, and when bruised the stem and pileus instantly 

 turn a bright brick red. 

 Ag. hirtus, species nova ? Inocyba. Pileus white, with a shade of 

 cinnamon towards the centre, about one inch in diameter, co- 

 vered with hairy scales of a light cinnamon brown. Gills pure 

 white, not numerous, adnexed of different lengths and rather 

 broad. Stem about two inches high, attenuated upwards, tumid 

 downwards, and again contracted towards the base, perfectly 

 solid, striated, crooked, one eighth of an inch thick at the most 

 swollen part, densely covered all over with beautiful cinnamon 

 scales, which stand out in a squarrose manner, giving to the 

 plant a hispid feeling. Flesh of the stem and pileus white, 



tough and elastic, sporules — ? odour none, taste pleasant. 



Nearly allied to Ag. plumosus, Bott., but differs in colour and 

 habit. Grew under oak trees, amongst moss, Leigh Wood, 

 Sept. 6, 1838. 

 Ag. Loveianus, Berk. Is not this species described by Mr. Knapp 

 Journal of a Naturalist, as Ag. surrectus, cum icone lignea } 

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