THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY 



No. 117. AUGUST 1846. 



IX. — Notices of British Rypogaous Fungi, By the Rev. M. 

 J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq. 



Since the publication of the last series of notices of British 

 Fungi (vol. xiii. p. 360), several interesting discoveries have been 

 made amongst the hypogseous species, which it is desirable should 

 at once be recorded. It is to be regretted that the memoir of 

 Messrs. Tulasne has not yet been published, though presented 

 to the Academy. Two recent opportunities however of inspect- 

 ing their drawings, and the communication of many new and 

 rare species, as also the receipt of a very complete collection of 

 authentic specimens from Vittadini and Corda, have enabled us 

 to ascertain some points which were previously uncertain. 



Doubtless many more species will reward the continued re- 

 searches in a field which is almost new to British botanists, and 

 there is every reason to believe that the greater part of the spe- 

 cies are pretty generally diffused. The list of indigenous spe- 

 cies in proportion to our flora is already as large as in France or 

 Italy. It would not be fair to omit recording the active researches 

 of Mr. Thwaites, to whom we are indebted for many valuable 

 observations. 



I. Species Sporophor^:. 



*Hymenog aster luteus, Yitt. Mon. Tub. p. 22. Splanchno- 

 myces luteus, Corda, Fasc. 6. tab. 8. fig. 76. ined. Apethorpe, 

 Norths, July ; Rushton, Norths, Oct. 



Varying somewhat in the depth of the yellow tint of the hy- 

 menium, but always easily recognised by the character of the 

 spores. 



*H. olivaceus, Vitt. I.e. p. 24. 



Our British specimens accord very exactly in the form of the 

 spores with those of Vittadini, in which however the colour of the 

 hymenium when dry is of a redder tinge. 



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