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.