Rev. M. J. Berkeley on British Fungi. 199 



Lascft in Linnaea, vol. iii. p. 380. This elegant species which 

 occurred at the same time and place as the foregoing, is re- 

 ferred without doubt by Lasch to Ag. conicus. It does not 

 however change to black when bruised or in decay, nor does 

 it dry up, but becomes pallid and dissolves into a foetid jelly. 

 My specimens are of a beautiful rose colour, but according to 

 Lasch, who, as far as I can discover, is the only author who 

 has noticed it, it is also red and purple. The apex is often 

 yellowish, and the whole gradually assumes an ochraceous tinge. 

 It retains its colour, however, as observed by Lasch, when 

 carefully dried. Pileus acutely conic, lobed below, about one 

 inch high, three quarters broad at the base in unexpanded spe- 

 cimens, moist, striated, under a lens, with innate but raised 

 fibrillae ; rose-coloured gradually turning pallid ; flesh rather 

 thin. Gills rose-coloured, at length pallid like the pileus, very 

 narrow and almost evanescent behind in many specimens, in 

 consequence of the form of the pileus, though properly adnate, 

 distinct. Stem one inch or more high, pure white except 

 within the pileus where it has a slight roseate tinge, brittle, 

 often splitting longitudinally, remarkably smooth, slightly 

 striate, having in great measure the same transparent appear- 

 ance as Clavaria vermicular is, hollow, the walls fibrous within. 

 The young pileus has a great resemblance to the internal 

 bracteae of an artichoke just before expansion. 



64. Ag.pudens, Pers. Syn. p. 313. (suhAg.radicato). Ag. 

 radicatus. 8. pudens, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 119 ; Ag. longi- 

 pes, Bull, quoad tab. 232. This very elegant species is far less 

 common than Ag. radicatus. It has occurred two or three times 

 in the present autumn in Rockingham Forest. The stem is 

 quite as velvety as in Ag. velutipes, and the pileus, especially 

 its margin, more or less so, and by no means glutinous. It 

 appears to me quite distinct from Ag. radicatus, as Persoon 



D. C. Sowerby for the forthcoming new edition of English Fungi. It is his 

 intention to publish it systematically, so that should it not meet with suf- 

 ficient encouragement to secure its completion, each portion will be complete 

 as far as it goes. The first volume, for instance, will comprise the genus 

 Agaricus, for which figures of the greater number of British species are al- 

 ready prepared. The plates of the old edition will be used as far as may be 

 thought expedient, but all errors will be as far as possible corrected, and 

 many additions made. New plates will not in general be given of such spe- 

 cies as are figured in the Scottish Cryptogamic Flora. 



