Vol. V, No. 11.] Buttetin or THe Torrey Botantcat Cus. [New York, Nov,, 1874. 
$125. The Club at Central Park.—On Saturday, Nov. 7th, the 
Club visited the conservatory in Central Park, where the manager, 
Mr. Robert Demcker, a brother member, received them with the 
greatest cordiality, and was unwearied in pointing out and explain- 
ing his treasures. Mr, Ruger has supplied us with the following 
notice of some interesting plants.—Plants under shelter; Coffea 
Arabica, in fruit; Siphonia elastica, India-Rubber tree; Hura 
erepitans, called “ Monkey’s Pistol,” from the loud noise made by 
the explosion of the ripe fruit; Zheophrasta imperalis ; Hippomane 
Mancinella, Manchineel tree (by some called the “Upas tree.”) The 
true Upas tree, Antiaris toxicaria, is a congener of the Breadfruit 
tree, Artocarpus incisa, (but the Manchineel is nearly or quite as 
poisonous as the Upas); Cyperus papyrus, in fruit; Eucalypti 
species ; Aralia Japonica, in flower; Aralia papyrifera, of which 
the Chinese make their rice paper, in flower; Mespilus Japonica, 
the Chinese Medlar, in fine flower; several species of Peperomia in 
flower.—Plants out-doors: Gymuotrir Japonica, a Japanese grass, 
_ growing also around the fountain in Union Square, in fruit; scholt- 
zia Californica, in flower; Sanvitalia procumbens, in flower. 
. § 126. New species of Fungi, found at Newfield, N. J., by J. B, 
LLIS, : 
1. Agaricus (Lepiota) noctiphilus.—Subcespitose, pileus carnose, 
cylindric-hemispheric, becoming convex, and even concave, and 
rather broadly umbonate, sulcate-striate around the margin, the 
strive finally extending nearly to the centre, dotted, especially in 
the disk, with fine black scales, which may be easily rubbed off. 
Flesh white, thin, almost disappearing towards the margin; gills 
hardly crowded, rounded behind, free, margius serrulate, color white, 
stem slender, about one inch long; stuffed, loosely farinose-squamose, 
annular marked above the middle and surrounded by a distinet 
black line at base, spores short, obl. about .0002 long. ileus not 
over 1 across; Mycelium abundant, white. 
On asloping bank of earth in an unfinished cellar, July. 
2. Agaricus (Tricholoma) microsporus.—Pileus }—j across, 
carnose, thin, slightly rugose, covered with a glaucous bloom, becom- 
ing faintly zonate in drying, dull reddish-purple; gills deeply and nar- 
rowly sinuate and narrowly attached at the summit of the stem, 
hardly crowded, about }’ broad, pale purplish at first, becoming 
reddish-yellow ; stem about 1’ long and 1 thick, fistulose, finely 
pubescent under the lens, with long, spreading, pale-yellowish hairs 
at base. Spores minute, nearly round .00015 —.0002 in diameter. 
Among sphagnum inthe Swamp. July—October. 
8. Agaricus (Clitocybe) trullissatus.—Pileus carnose, plano-con- 
vex, at length depressed in the centre, innate, fibrose-squamose be- 
coming smoother in the disk, margin thin; gills unequal, not 
crowded, coarse and thick, adnate with a decurrent tooth, at length 
white-pulverulent, purple-violet at first, becoming dark brick red. 
_ Stem stuffed, fibrillose, with a long club-shaped base —— 
ar at into thesand. Spores large, cylindric-oblong .0006 to .000 
sty, oe aes Ses ae ? . 
