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34. A. semi-ovatus, " gills brown-grey to black, 2 or 4 in a set ; 

 pileus light brown, smooth, half egg-shaped; stem cylindrical, 

 white." WITH iv. 331. Sow. Fung. t. 131. GREV. Fl. Edln. 

 392. Ag. ciliaris, BOLT. Fung. t. 53. 



Hab. Old pastures, generally near dung. 



Stalk 4 inches high, as thick as a swan-quill, cylindrical, 

 smooth, marked with a small ring, frosted above it ; per- 

 foration small. Pileus campanulate, obtuse, smooth, glos- 

 sy, a very light brown, larger than an egg divided in the 

 middle. Gills slightly fixed, broad, ventricose, black and 

 sooty with grey edges, not very close. They come very 

 fully down to the margin of the pileus, and can be readily 

 separated into two distinct layers. 



35. A. fimiputris, gills greyish -brown, sooty, 2 or 4 in a set ; 

 pileus mouse-colour, smooth, half egg-shaped ; stalk cylindrical, 

 slender, brownish, firm. WITH. iv. 42. PURT. Mid. FL iii. 223. 



Hab. Old pastures and by road-sides, common. Aut. 



Stalk 4 inches high, thick as a crow-quill, purplish-brown, 

 fistular, yet firm and tough. Pileus campanulate, obtuse, 

 about one-half the size of the preceding. Gills fixed, ra- 

 ther wide, broad and ventricose. Certainly distinct from 

 Ag. semiovatus, though nearly related to it. 



36. A. varius, gills white, rather distant, 2 in a set ; pileus 

 campanulate, greyish-white, smooth ; stalk slender, firm, greyish, 

 smooth and glossy WITH. iv. 276. PURT. Mid, Fl. iii. 216. 



Hab. In damp woods amongst moss, very common. Aut. 



A small and neat species, sometimes milky, but the juice 

 small in quantity. Stalk 3 inches high, slender, purplish- 

 brown, with a downy and somewhat bulbous root, which 

 penetrates amongst the moss. The pilous is thin and 

 scored. The A<j- galericulatus of SOWERBY, tab. 165, gives 

 a good idea of this species, and is, I presume, the same 

 plant. The only variety of it which I have seen is one 

 with the pileus of a deep black colour. 



37. A. tener, wood-brown, smooth ; stalk cylindrical, slender ; 



pileus conical, smooth ; gills 4 in a set ; flesh very thin WITH. 



iv. 285. Sow. Fung. t. 33. HOOK. Scot. U. 22. GREV. Fl. Edin* 

 389. 



