242 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Amongst moss in woods, &c. 



Gregarious, small, pileiis J-| in. across. Taste disagree- 

 a"ble, whole plant brittle, and the pileus inclined to be 

 somewhat irregular. (W. G. Sm.) 



Introduced Species. 



Eccilia flosculus. W. G. Sm. 



Pileus about § in. across, somewhat membranaceous, 

 pruinose with crystalline particles, deeply umbilicate, some- 

 what irregular, black-brown, becoming white with age ; 

 gills decurrent, somewhat waved, thick, pink; stem about 

 I in. long, attenuated downwards, pruinose or innately 

 fibrillose, cartilaginous with a fleshy pith, reddish ; spores 

 nodulose. 



Agaricus (^Eccilia) flosculus, "W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot., 

 vol. iv., new ser., p. 97, pi. 161, f. 4-9 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 138; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 613b. 



On the ground at the foot and upon the stems of tree 

 ferns (I)iclison{a antarctica) at Messrs. Veitch's Nursery, 

 Chelsea, June, 1870. Allied to the next, but a very different 

 plant; the dark -brown trama and external pruinoso-crystalline 

 stratum are characteristic. (W. G. Sm.) 



Eccilia acus. W. G. Sm. 



Pileus up to h in. across, somewhat membranaceous, deeply 

 umbilicate, densely pruinose, white, margin striate and in- 

 curved ; gills thick, distant, deeply decurrent, pink ; stem 

 about 1 in. long, not J line thick, cartilaginous, smooth, 

 whitish ; spores oblong, angular. 



Agaricus (Eccilia) acus, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot., vol. iv., 

 new ser., p. 97, pi. 161, f. 14-20 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 138 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., 1)1. 613c. 



Amongst germinating coffee-seeds in cocoanut fibre, Koyal 

 Gardens, Kew. 



This interesting and distinct plant was gathered by the 

 Eev. M. J. Berkeley, in August, 1873, and placed in our 

 hands for illustration. It differs in its snow-white pruinose 

 pileus, and in other characters, from all other described 

 species. Its nearest ally is A, carneo-griseus, B & Br 

 (W. G. Sm.^ 



