Lists of fungi sent to M.J. Berkeley
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2546. Agar: pannulus, Weim. "Baf convex, bossed, emination 8 & " 1/2 in. broad, cinereous grey; flesh in centre 1 line thick. Lam: unequal, scarcely venticose, free, 9 lines wide, white becoming cinnamon at spore. Stipe white solid, smooth, minutely pubescent at top, subequal, 3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, dif- fused into filens. In sylvis. Aug. 2547. Agar: clypearius, Bull. Gregarious, subcer pilose, beautifully white throughout, f body being slightly dingy. Rather fragile. Taste none. cap hemispheric-campanulate, 2-3 in. broad, bossed, margin striate-sulcate, very thin & fissile, dry, covered with deciduous mealv scales. Flesh 1/4 line thick in centre. Lam: numerous, thin, plane, unequal, free, 6 lines broad, acute at each end. Stipe 3-4 in. long, 3 lines thick, subequal, radiculose at base, fistulous, smooth, brittle, & fibrous texture. Taste white! Among high grass in culti fields. Aug. Closely allied to A. clypeol but distinct. 2548. Agar: velutipes Bull. Baf ochraceous-brown, a dark brown, 1/2-3/4in. broad, thin, dry, striate, umbilicate. Lam: pale, numerous, unequal, narrow, attached. Stipe 1/2 in. long, hollow, 1 line thick, pale, a ferruginous toward base, villose. Spo: white! On leaves in dry swamps. Aug. 2549. Agar: icephalus, Bull. Pileus pale violet-fuscus, 1/2-1/2in. broad, convex, then plane, sub- cute striate, lanose-membranaceous, dry. Stipe 1/2-2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, fistulous, pale, farinaceous, & base larger & villose. Lam: dis- tant, attached, unequal, forked somewhat near now & undulate, rather paler than cap; in 5 dentices (in larger spec.) venose. Spo. white! Among rotten leaves in dried swamps. - Aug. Odor strong & offensive. 2550. Agar: pulveraceus, Bull. Gregarious. Baf plane, convex, 3-6 lines broad, white but spotted with f scaly remnants of tawn veil - centre tawny & subumbonate, margin striate sulcate. Flesh little, thickish in centre. Lam: unequal, (about 3 ranks) venticose, not crowded, attached to a ring which is not separate & stipe; margins minutely eroded or smooth, rather thick, very white. Ring tawny, subpersistent, at or below middle of Stipe. Stipe subterete, white, smooth, thickened at base, not little, with a fibrous spongy centre, 6-8 lines long, 1/2-1/4 line thick. Among grass in sandy soil. July. 2551. Agar: appendiculatus, Baf campanulate, slightly floccose, pale yellowish clay color, then convex then plane & fissile, whitish clay color, smoothish, centre darker & sometimes umbonate, substriate, 1-3/4in. broad, very little, not viscid. Flesh 1 line thick in centre, dirty white very thin centre to margin. Lam: slightly attached, somewhat rounded at base, plane, thin, not crowded but numerous, unequal (about 3 ranks) at first white & nearly ochroleucous, then a kind of dark flesh color & fuscous purplish sporicidia, linear, little more than a line wide. Stipe smooth, sulcate hollow fibrous but not tough, white, the base slight- enlarged & having a thin white tormentum, 2-3/4in. high, 2-3 lines thick. Odor faint, Taste earthy. Veil fungaceous, marginal. Dried swamps. June.