ESCULENT FUNGI OF GREAT BRITAIN. 36l 
Ag. virgineus, Batsch^ Elench. Fung. f. l^.-^Sow.Fimg, 
t. 32. 
Ag. jozzolus, Sco]). Fl Cam. % p. 431. 
Ag. nitens. Sow. Fung. t. 71. 
Ag. cossus, Sow. Fung. t. 121. 
Ag. elongatus, Sclmm. Sodland. p. 310. 
Hab. In meadows, pastures, heaths, rarely in woods. 
Very common. Autumn. 
Desc. Plant wholly white, often gregarious. Pileus 
convex, or broadly conical, at length plane, and in age 
even turned up at the margin, centre obtusely umbo- 
nate, smooth, slimy in young plants and in moist wea- 
ther, when dry shining, 1-2 inches broad, fleshy. 
Lamella, distant, few, broad, thick, decurrent. Stem. 
1-3 inches high or more, 2-3 lines thick, firm, solid^ 
except in very old plants, somewhat crooked, scurfy 
or slightly squamose towards the top, often attenuated 
towards the base. 
pERsooisr, in his Traite^ keeps up Jgaricus Jozzolus of 
ScopoLi {Jg. eburneus of Bulliard, and himself, in Si/7i, 
Fung.), and gives Jg. virgineus as a distinct species. I 
have not followed Fries in uniting the various synonymes 
above quoted, without examining the plants in their living 
state. I must, at the same time, confess, that, from the 
limited accounts given by some authors of the species they 
describe, I am not completely satisfied respecting Ag. ebur- 
neus of Bulliard, whose gills are represented as far too 
numerous. Sowerby's Ag. virgineus is the common ap- 
pearance of the plant, and the character faithfully pour- 
tray ed ; I have no doubt of his Ag. cossus being a variety, 
notwithstanding his report of its villanous smell. Of his 
Ag. nitens I am not so certain. This confusion to the epi- 
