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It has been quite a good year for the queen of local mushrooms, the russet-capped ovolo; and a pretty good one for the king, or “little pig”, the porcino.

Apropos of Sherwood's at Jamestown, few of us, if any, know that his mansion possessed openings with ovolo bricks—bricks rubbed and cut in an egg-shaped ornamental moulding.

Again: the Doric capital was unimitative; but all the beauty it had was dependent on the precision of its ovolo, a natural curve of the most frequent occurrence.

The term is sometimes given to the ovolo of the Ionic capital, especially when curved with the egg-and-tongue enrichment.

Lastly, the crowning part is, in the Greek Doric, a single convex moulding, not very dissimilar in profile to the ovolo of the capital, and forming what we commonly call an eaves-gutter.