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On sonic now Funqi from Mexico. 

 By the EeY. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



[Read ]S"ov. 15, 1866.] 



[Plate XII.] 



A SMALL collection of Pungi, made by Signer Botteri in Mexico, 

 near Orizaba, was lately forwarded to tbe Eev. M. A. Curtis, of 

 Hilisborougli, North Carolina, by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The specimens have kindly been submitted to me ; and I find one 

 or two so interesting that I think no time should be lost in lay- 

 ing before the Linnean Society a short description of them, to 

 which I have added characters of the other new species in the col- 

 lection. The information I have received is so scanty that I am 

 unable to say anything about their habits, and must therefore 

 confine myself to a mere description. One of them undoubtedly 

 belongs to a new genus, which I have dedicated to Mrs. Lloyd 

 "W^ynne, who has made an especial study of the Fungi of Den- 

 bighshire, and has added many interesting species to our flora. 



1. Paxillus ligneus, Berh ^ Curt. Pileo conchiformi, lignco; to- 

 nientoso, luteo, margine involuto ; lamellis angustis, posticc reticu- 

 latis ; sporis fuscis. 



Very hard when dry, but brittle towards the margin. Pileus 

 2i inches long and broad ; spores nearly as broad as long, sub- 

 (^ymbiform with a large nucleus. 



Allied to Paxilltis panndides. 



2. Trametes mexicana, Berk. Sf Curt. Pileo ungulato, ina^quabili, 

 subtoraeutoso, fusco, marginem versus pallidiore umbrino^ contextu 

 suberoso paUido; sporis noa stratosis, niajusculis; subrotnndis, acie 

 obtusis; brunneolis. 



Pileus 11 inch long, 3| inches broad. 



I cannot point out any immediate ally of this species. 



3- Craterellus conflubns. Berk. 8f Curt. Aurautiacus; plleis 

 dense connatis, profunde infundibulifortnibus; venis couspicuis, reti- 

 culatis, decurrentibus. 



^ Pilei 2 inches high, 1 inch across, margin incurved ; stem 

 divided above into numerous pilei, deeply grooved when dry. 



Allied to Craterellus lutens, but differs in liabit, and in the 

 »iore conspicuous veins. 



In the same collection are specimens of Craterellus cantharellus, 

 Schweinitz, a species hitherto not found out of the tlnitcd States. 



4- HvMENOGASTER MICROSPORUS, Berk. Sf Curt. Globosus, alb;i3, 



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