Lists of fungi sent to M.J. Berkeley
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"mush?" 1252. Agar: hypnaceus var? cap slightly convex, dusty, umbonate, striate, flesh thin, watery. Lam. free, in three subequal ranks, ventricose, subdistant, whitish, becoming a dull flesh color. Sporia light ferru- ginous. Stipe very smooth, little, hollow, dusty, composed of longitudinal fibres. Swamps. July. Lactarius, pallens chrysochrous, Fries. 1253. Agaricus [illegible] Pileus dull clay-white, convex, zoned, depressed, 1/2-2 in broad, viscid when moist. Sporia white. Gill white, attached, unequal, rather numerous, frequently forked at base. Milk white, acid, becoming instantly a cream color. Stipe white, solid (becoming hollow?) pilose villous at base. Among leaves in damp woods. June. = 1253. 1254. Agar: [illegible]! July. Lact: fuliginosus, B & C. 1255. Agar: Whitish clay-color. cap convex depressed, smooth, 2-3 in broad. Lam attached, not crowded, sometime di- chotomous at summit, unequal. Milk white, acid, wound becoming light red. Sporidia dirty white. Stipe 2-3 in high, whitish, even, 6-7 lines thick, becoming hollow. Damp woods. June. 1256. Agaricus [illegible] turidus, B & C. Light fuscous as to stem & cap, especially the centre of cap, & very viscid. Cap campanulate, lobed, striate, margin crenate. Gill white, unequal, ventricose, attached. Stipe composed of longitudinal fibres, fistulous. July. Low swampy places. Phongiosus, B & C. Margarinus, m. sp. 1257. Agar. cap whitish brown darker in centre, plane, 1/3-1/4 in broad; flesh thin. Lam attached, unequal, dull white, rather numerous. Stipe brown fuscaceous, villous & fibrous at base, fistulous. Decaying leaves in woods. June. Hygroph: mucilaginosus, B & C. 1258. Agar epiphyllus. Very mucil- aginous viscid. Cap bright pale reddish yellow, darker in centre, convex, becoming plane, striate, 1/4-3/4 in broad. Lam flesh color, subdecurrent, unequal, distant, fleshy. Stipe 1-2 in long, composed of longitudinal fibres, fragile, fistulous, suffulvid, pale yellow or carnaceous. Swamps. July. 1259. Agar lepidus. Pileus convex, becoming plane, 2-7 in broad, dry, outer skin brownish cracking into scales, inner skin dull yel- low-white. Flesh thick. Lam attached, narrow (at first hardly more than unequal) ochroleu- cous, dry & fragile, firm. Stipe solid, en- larged at base, brown & scaly, sometimes branched. Base of stumps & buried wood. May, June. Much infected by larvae. 1260. Coprinusphemerus, Fr. Stipe & cap absolutely villous under a lens. Cap arei- form, plicate-sulcate, membranaceous, broadly conic, umbonate. Lam attached, fuscous. Stipe white, hollow, slightly decreasing upward. Gardens. June. 1261. Coprinus plicatilis, Fr. Pileus pale-fuscous, 1/4-1/8 in broad sulcate-plicate, umbonate, conical & ovate, becoming con- vex & plane. Lam free, fuscous. Stipe smooth, slender, hollow, white or brownish, subequal. Rich soils, gardens. May.