ENUMERATION OF FUNGI. 409 
Uitenhage. On sandy ground. January. 
Pileus 6 inches across, at length somewhat expanded with 
a broad obtuse umbo and incurved, white tinged with brown 
in the centre; epidermis smooth at the margin, then cracked 
into areole, which, towards the umbo, become minute coni- 
cal warts; flesh thick. 
Stem 7 inches high, 2 of an inch thick in the centre, run- 
ning up into the flesh of the pileus, white, nearly smooth ; 
equal, or nearly so, above, bulbous below, hollow but stuffed 
with a few fine fibrille. Bulb 14 inch thick, not marginate. 
Ring large, thick, persistent, moveable with a membranaceous 
margin. 
Gills perfectly distinct from the stem, broad, tan-coloured 
from the spores, which are rather large, elliptie, with a dis- 
tinct pellucid border. 'lhey are colourless when seen by 
transmitted light, but tan-coloured in situ. 
This magnificent species is closely allied to Ag. procerus, 
but differs in many essential points, especially in the tan- 
coloured spores. Several fine species of the section occur in 
the southern hemisphere. Amongst Mr. Bauer's drawings, 
in the possession of Mr. Brown, are representations of two 
singular and beautiful species, and Sir W. J. Hooker has a 
very curious one from New Zealand, which I shall hope ta 
describe at some future opportunity. 
2. Ag. (Collybia) chortophilus, n. s.; pileo convexo-plano 
carnosulo subtiliter atomato-pruinoso demum glabro ; stipite 
brevi gracili farcto pruinoso-tomentoso ; lamellis distantibus 
latiusculis crassiusculis longe decurrentibus interstitiis poroso- 
venosis. Zeyher, n. 108. 
At the base of grass stems which are immersed in sand. 
Uitenhage. January. 
Pileus 4, of an inch broad, plano-convex, slightly fleshy, 
with the margin very thin and acute; when dry, of a pallid 
ochre, like 4g. oreades. Stem about half an inch high, half 
a line thick, rooting below, stuffed, at length hollow, clothed 
with pruinous down, of the same colour as the pileus. Gills 
at length of a rich rufous-brown with a pale edge, rather 
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