180 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI- 



Hob. Old pastures, common. 



Rather a small species, of a uniform wood-brown colour, the 

 gills being only a little darker and richer than the pileus. 

 Stalk 3 inches high, fistular, hardly so thick as a crow-quill. 

 Pileus a blunt cone, thin and brittle, often wrinkled at the 

 margin. Sowerby's figures are larger than we generally 

 find it, and one of them has too rounded a pileus, but in 

 other respects they agree very well with our plant. Ag. 

 tener of PURTON is a different plant. 



38. A. hypnorum, " minute ; pileus campanulate, striate when 

 moist, reddish-buff; becoming pale ; lamellae adnate, rather broad, 

 distant; stipes somewhat crooked, filiform." GREV. FL Edin. 

 389. Ag. acicula, Sow. Fung. t. 282. 



Hob. Amongst moss, common. Among Hypna in the 

 rocks in the plantation at Murton Craigs. Aut. 



In general not more than an inch high ; but in tufts of Hyp- 

 num splendens we find a fine variety, of which the follow- 

 ing is a description. Stalk slender, 2 or 3 inches long, cy- 

 lindrical, fistular, pale yellow-brown, somewhat cottony. 

 Pileus campanulate, smooth, scored, yellow-brown, nearly 

 half an inch in diameter. Gills yellow-brown, broad, ven- 

 tricose, distant, 4 in a set, fixed. 



39. A. epiphylluS) pileus nearly plane, rugose, white ; gills few, 

 distant, pure white ; stalk filiform, reddish-brown below, the top 

 white, very minutely velvety, 1 inch long GREV. Fl. Edin. 381. 

 Ag. squamula, Sow. Fung. t. 93. 



Hob. On dead leaves in Blackadder plantations. 



40. A. clavus, minute ; pileus semiglobular, orange ; gills decur- 



rent, distant, in pairs, whitish ; stalk filiform, buff-orange BOLT. 



Fung. t. 39. B. GREV. Fl. Edin. 380. PURT. Mid. Fl. iii. 236. 



Hab. Amongst moss in woods, attached to straws, &c. 



Stalk about \ inch high, thick as a pin, minutely pubescent, 

 hollow. Pileus small, minutely pubescent, obsoletely fur- 

 rowed, sometimes dimpled in the centre, where the colour 

 is deeper. 



41. A. Du-Boisii, snow-white, small; stalk slender, downy on 

 the lower half; gills in pairs, distant ; pileus obtusely campanu- 

 late, striate Fungi plures juxta se nascentes, parvi, turbinati, 



