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Running over grass and various substances, after the fashion of 

 Thelephora sebacea ; white, soft, springing from a thin cotton-like 

 mycelium ; pores ^V mcn wide, short, angular, with thin dissepiments. 



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BRITISH FUNGI. 



By M. C. Cooke. — (Continued from page 40.) 

 Hymenomycetes. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) Georginae. Smith. " Crimson-tinged Lepiota." 



Pileus white, slightly fleshy, fragile, at first campanulate, then 

 expanded, covered with a minute, dense, viscid pruinosity, which, 

 as well as the white flesh, instantly changes to crimson when 

 touched ; margin at length striate ; stem slightly attenuated 

 upwards, also covered externally with minute, viscid pruinosity, 

 changing to crimson when touched ; ring evanescent ; gills free, 

 very thin, moderately distant, somewhat ventricose, white, the edge 

 becoming crimson when touched ; spores white. — Smith in Seem. 

 Journ. Bot. ix. (1871), p. 1, t. 112. 



On mosses in a cool fernery. Chelsea. 



Pileus 1 to 1 in. across. Stem 1-2 in. long. Spores "0003 x 

 •0002 in. 

 Agaricus (Lepiota) metulsesporus. B.d-Br. " Clavate-spored Lepiota." 



Pileus campanulate, rather fleshy, white, grooved, adorned with 

 small pallid scales ; margin appendiculate ; stem nearly equal or 

 slightly clavate ; pallid, lemon-coloured, stuffed ; gills white, ven- 

 tricose, approximate; spores nine-pin shaped, or obliquely clavate; 

 mycelium thread-like. — -B. 4' Br. Ceylon Fungi, no. 67. Ann. N.H. 

 no.1182. 



Pileus 1 in. across; stem 21 in. high, 1 line thick ; gills nearly 

 2 lines broad. This species, which at present has been found only 

 once in this country by Mr. Broome, and which in external charac- 

 ters approaches A. clypeolarius, is at once distinguished by the 

 length of the spores, which is '0006 in. — B. fy Br. 



Agaricus (Lepiota) Terreii. B. $ Br. " Terry's Lepiota." 



Pileus sub-hemispherical, bright tawny, rough with minute 

 warts ; stem sub-equal, clad with furfuraceous scales of the same 

 colour ; ring at length torn ; gills white, narrow, remote. — B. 4'Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 1183. 



On sandy ground. Forres. 



Pileus 1-2 in.; gills not branched; spores *0002x-00015 in. 

 This species, which appears quite distinct, approaches A. granulosus 

 on one side, and A. acutesquamosus on the other, but it is nearer to 

 tin' latter than the former. The spores of A. granulosus arc slightly 

 larger, those of A. acutesquamosus are rather longer, and at the" 

 same time narrower. — B. 4' Br. 



