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suspended over a sheet of paper often differs from the colour 

 of those shed by the same agaric in contact with the paper. 



Volvaria terastia, B. & Br., appears a typical Volvaria, but its 

 spores are deep Indian red, or chocolate where they have been 

 moistened by contact with the pileus ; and they retain this 

 chocolate colour when re-dried. " Lepiotaflavidorufa, B. & Br.," 

 when laid on paper deposits either yellow or dark slate-coloured 

 spores. " Lepiota lirjnyodes , B. & Br.," deposits spores which 

 are brown with a tinge of olive, and pale brown when viewed 

 by transmitted light, while at the margin of the print there is 

 a reddish tinge which one at first attributes to a stain caused 

 by the pileus ; but a few hours later the print is brownish red, 

 the red distinctly predominating, and on covering it with 

 shellac in alcohol for preservation it changes to purple. 



Massee (Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 135) says, " the discovery of 

 fungi having green spores necessitates the formation of an 

 additional section, which will naturally stand as Chlorosporce. 

 This section occupies an intermediate position between the 

 Leucosporce and the Rhodosporce." He divides the green-spored 

 species into two genera, Chlorophyllum and Chlorospora, the 

 first being characterized by the possession of a ring, but without 

 a volva, and the second by the absence of both ring and volva. 



The genus Chlorophyllum includes C. esculentum, Mass., 

 from British Guiana, C. morgani (Peck), Mass., from North 

 America, and C. molybdites (Meyer) , Mass. , from Brazil. There 

 is, however, apparently a difference in the colour of the spores ; 

 those of C. morgani are described as " Chlorince," and those 

 of C. esculentum as ^' olivaceo-virentes." Copeland (Edible 

 PhiHppine Fungi, Manila, 1905) has recently described a green- 

 spored species as Lepiota chlorospora. He says : " Massee 

 established the genus Chlorophyllum for these green-spored 

 species, but it seems to me better to keep them in Lepiota and 

 extend its characterization sufficiently to cover them. The 

 spores are of the same colour as those of Aspergillus glaucus." 

 If all green spores were of this colour, such a course would be 

 advisable, but Chitoniella poderes and Chlorophyllum esculen- 

 tum have olive-green spores (in mass), and would stand better 

 between the Ochrosporoe and the Porphyrosporce than next to 



