var. a ig y za c eu s. Bull. Champ, t. 423, f . 1.
Ar3')/i-a'cfiMS=:silvered, from Spyupos= silver ; from its silvery
colour.
More slender and graceful than the typical form, with narrower
and more crowded gills.— Cooke Illus. t. 165.
In grassy places.
Joined with Ag. terreus in “ Index to Illustrations,” but belonging
rather to Ag. scalpturatus.
var. v iz e sc en s. WhaHon 2US8.
Vii'escens=tiiTnmg green.
Similar to the above, but turning yellowish-green in all parts,
when bruised or in drying.
In open places. {Mrs. H. T. Wharton.')
Will be figured in Supplement to the “ Illustrations.”
Gills becoming reddish, or cinereous, edge usually at length spotted
with rufous or black.
8 1 . Ag a z icu s (Tzicholoma) im hz ica tus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 66.
Imbrica'tus=ooYered with tiles, imbrices; probably from the
colour of the pileus.
Pileus fleshy, compact, convex, then expanded, obtuse, dry,
innato-squamulose ; margin at first inflexed, pubescent; stem
solid, stout, pruinose above ; gills emarginate, adnexed, somewhat
crowiied, white, then becoming rufescent.—Fr. Icon. t. 30. Cooke
Illus. t. 199.
In fir woods.
Pileua umber, or rufous.
8 2 . Ag a z icu s (Tzicholoma) v a c c in u s . Pers. Syn. p. 233,
Vacci'nus— oi or belonging to, or the colour of, a cow, vacca ;
the specific name in Latin for “ cow-colour ” was helvus=lig]it
bay.
Pileus fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, dry,
rough with floccose scales ; margin involute, tomentose ; stem
hollow, equal, fibrillose ; gills fixed, somewhat distant, white, at
length rufescent.—F r . Hym. Fur. 56. Cooke Illu s. t. 60.
In pine woods.
The figure in “ Illustrations ” inaocurately called Ag. imbrioatus.
8 3 . Agazicus (Tzicholoma) immund us. Berk. Outl. p. 103.
Im m u n d u s= d k tj ; from the stained pileus.
Ceespitose, fleshy, pileus at first convex, then expanded, dirty
white, stained with bistre, minutely s ilk y ; margin inflexed, silky or
minutely scabrous, and squamulose ; stem fibrillose, of the same
colour as the p ile u s ; gills sub-cinereous, with a pinkish tinge,
marked with transverse lines, emarginate.—F r. Hym. Fur. 56.
Cooke Illus. i. 61.
Amongst short grass, on sheep’s dung.
Pileus 2in. or more across ; every part blackish when bruised.
8 4 . Ag azicu s (Tzicholoma) muzinaceua. Bull. Champ, t. 523.
Murina ceus of or belonging to mice, mures ; from the
odour (?).
Strong scented. Pileus thin, firm, brittle, a t first campanulate,
then expanded, cracked, streaked, silky, d ry ; stem stout, cracked,
and streaked with minute black scales, so lid ; gills very broad,
undulated, distant, more or less anastomosing, brittle, cinereous,
often marked with raised lines, edge a t length black.—Sow. t. 106.
Cooke Illus. t. 49. F r, Hym. Eur. 62.
In woods.
Pileus 4) in. Stem 3 in. high, 1 in. thick at the top. The gills in
Cooke Illustrations, t. 49, should have been cinereous, but were left white
by an error of the printer.
85. Ag azicus (Tzicholoma) te zz eu s. SeluBff. Icon. t. 64.
2’firr'i« s=e a rthy , from Ze?’r a = th e earth ; from the colour.
Pileus fleshy, soft, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, dry,
clothed with innate, floccose, or scaly down ; stem stuffed, nearly
equal, adpresso-fibrillose, whitish ; gills adnexed, with a decurrent
tooth, crenulate, pale-grey.—Sow. t. 76. F r. Hym. Fur. 57.
Cooke Illus. t. 50.
In woods, especially of fir.
Gregarious. Pileus 1-2J in. broad, mouse-grey, or very dark cinereous ;
flesh cinereous; stem 1-3 in. high, ¿ -e in. thick. Spores nearly spherical
■0002 in.
var. ozi-zuhens. Quelet Champ, dti Jura et des Vosges, p. 327.
Ori-rubens=red a t the mouth, from os -|- rubens; from the
colour of the edges of the gills.
Pileus fleshy, convex, fragile, smooth, grey, brownish in the
centre, clad with blackish fibrils ; stem solid, fibrous, white.