Mr. Stephens on Fungi of the neighbourhood of Bristol, 1 7 



II. — On the Fungi of the Neighbourhood of Bristol By Mr. 

 H. O. Stephens. 



To the Editors of the Magazine and Annals of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



Since the publication of my paper on the Mycology of the 

 neighbourhood of Bristol in the Number of the Annals of 

 Natural History for December, 1839, vol. iv. p. 246, I have 

 gathered the following species, a few of which have not been, 

 I believe, as yet mentioned as British : 



Agaricus Clypeolarius, Bull. Flax ; Bourton Coomb, Somerset. 



Ag. olivaceo-albus, Fries. Leigh Wood. 



Ag. 'pachyphyllus. Berk. Under oak trees, Leigh Wood. 



Ag. imhricatus. Fries. Fir plantations, Bourton Coomb. 



Ag. blandus, Berk. About way-sides, and in ditches among leaves, 

 Stapleton, &c. ; not an uncommon species. 



Ag. inamoenus. Fries. Bourton Coomb. 



Ag. murinaceus. Bull. Leigh Wood. 



Ag. butyracews. Bull. Bourton Coomb. 



Ag. confluens, Pers. Woods, common. 



Ag. undatus. Berk., Ag. insititius. Fries, Epicrisis Syst. Mycolog, 

 vol. i. p. 386, No. 48. Leigh Wood, on the ground in mossy 

 places. 



Ag. ulmarius, Bull. Rather general on elms in the autumn of 1840. 

 Brunswick Square, Bristol. Redland. 



Ag. palmatus. Bull. On a decaying tree, Leigh Wood, growing in 

 great numbers, tiled one above another, on the upper branches of 

 the tree. Agreeing with Withering's description of Agaricus fee- 

 tidus. 



Ag, validus. Berk. Stapleton Wood. 



Ag. cinnamomeus, Linn. Leigh Wood, not abundant. 



Ag. cinnamomeus, Bolton, tab. 22. This Agaric, though known to 

 Purton and Withering, seems to be quite a puzzle to our best mo- 

 dern mycologists. Greville and Berkeley consider it to be a state 

 of Ag. fastibilis. Having found a few plants under oak trees 

 in Leigh Wood this autumn, I am enabled to say positively it is 

 not a state of the last-mentioned plant. I do not draw up a 

 character at present, because the plants were old. Bolton says 

 it abounds about Halifax, but I suppose it must be a local spe- 

 cies, or it would be better discriminated. It must bear the name 

 of Ag. pseudo-cinnamomeus, given by Nees ab Esenbeck in his 

 Commentary on Bolton's Fungusses appended to Willdenow's 

 translation of that work. 



Ag. bombycinus, SchsefF. On an old hawthorn tree, Ashley. 



Ag. stipatus, Pers. Ditches, Stapleton, Leigh Wood, not uncommon. 



Ag. Candollianus, Fries. In dense clusters where trees had been 

 felled, Stapleton. 

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