_ 18 Mr. II. (). Stephens on the Fungi 



one of the earliest Fungi, appearing in June. Felton and Clifton 

 Down. 



Ay. peliant limits, Fr. Stapleton Grove, June L838. My plant is 

 exactly represented by Bolton, tab. 4. fig. 1. with the exception 

 of the processes on the gills, which are like those of Ay. balani- 

 nus, Berkeley, . I .. t g. of Zool. and Botany. 



Ay. fusco-purjwrcas, Pers. In ditches, among fallen beech leaves, 

 Staple ton. 



Ay. lubcrosus, Bull. Amongst moss without the tuber, Leigh 

 Wood. 



Ay. Claims, Bull. On dead grass stems, Stapleton. 



Ay . parasiticus. On the pileus of decaying Agarics, Leigh Wood. 



Ay. caulicinalis. On the roots of grass ; not uncommon. 



Ay. rondas, Fr. On dead bramble sticks. Stapleton Wood. 



Ay. Campanella, Batsch. ft. badipus. On the ground under fir trees, 

 Durdham Down. Found during the whole year from spring to 

 Christmas. 



Ay.frayrans, Sow. Amongst moss in most of the woods about 

 Bristol. One of the latest of the autumnal Fungi. It is some- 

 times scentless. 



Ay. myxacius species nova ? Pleuropus. Pileus dimidiate and lobed 

 olive brown, very slimy, paler towards the margin, extreme 

 edge revolute and downy, substance fleshy, flesh white. Gills 

 close, white, rather narrow, decurrentor acute behind, very irre- 

 gular in length, forked, separating from the substance of the 

 pileus like the tubes of Boleti. Stem solid, white, truly lateral. 

 Smell like Polyp, squamosus. The pileus varies from one to one 

 and a half inch across. Two specimens grew close together 

 on the turf, Durdham Down, July 1839, after a fortnight of 

 very wet weather. 



Ay. rhodopolius. Shady woods, Nightingale Valley. 



Ay. repandus, Bull. Durdham Down. The pileus is sometimes of 

 the deepest indigo, the plant differing in nothing else. 



Ay. phlebophorus, Ditm. In the hollow of an old hazel tree, Leigh 

 Wood. 



Ay. yriseo-cy aniens, Fr. Down and upland pastures, very abundant. 

 The stem is frequently eccentric when young, and the odour 

 powerfully aromatic, exactly like Melissa officinalis. 



Ay. chalybeus and columbarius. Abundant on every dry common in 

 the autumn months. — Ay.pascuus. Common, but not so plentiful 

 as the foregoing. — Ay. Sowerbii. A most abundant species ; 

 our downs and dry pastures are completely strewed with it in 



