No. 20.] [February, 1874. 



tfretrillta, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



BRITISH FUNGI. 



By the Editor. 



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Agaricus (Tricholoma) macrocephalus. Schulzer. 



Sub-gregarious, very large; stem solid, ventricose, delicately 

 granulated, whitish, ochraceous below, produced into a fleshy root; 

 pileus compact, fleshy, convex then plane, somewhat depressed ; 

 cuticle at first smooth, at length broken up in a tessellated manner, 

 ochraceous, darker when old ; gills deeply emarginate, nearly free, 

 attenuated behind, scarcely crowded, pallid. — Schulzer, Icon. Hym. 

 Hung., t. 3. Smith, Jour. Bot. (1873),/?. 336. 



In grassy places. King's Lynn. 



Very large, emulating Ag. colossus. Odour very powerful, like 



Lilium auratum ; stem long, subterranean ; flesh firm, slightly 



yellowish ; taste unpleasant ; spores irregularly globose, -00G m.m. 



Agaricus (Omphalia) Fibula. Bull. (Handbook No. 227.) Var. 



Swartzii. Fr. 



Rather firm ; pileus at length nearly plane, whitish ; disc 

 tawny ; stem whitish, slightly violet-coloured above. — Fries, Mon. 

 Hym. Suec, i., p. 193. Smith, Journ. Bot. (1873), p. 336. 



In woody places. Crystal Palace. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) Saundersii. Fr. 



(Grevillea, ii., p. 63.) 



Growing on the ground in patches. 



Agaricus (Entoloma) Wynnei. B. $ Br. 



Pileus at first plane, fuliginous, velvety, then convex, squamulose, 

 hygrophanous ; margin striate, often undulating ; stem fuliginous, 

 blue, compressed; base cottony ; gills broad, transversely ribbed, 

 pallid, margin crenulate ; having the odour of bugs. — Ann. Nat. 

 Hist., No. 1342. 



In fir woods. Coed Coch. Sept. 



Allied to Ag. costatus, with which it agrees in size. 

 Agaricus (Nolanea) mammosus. L. 



Pileus sub-membranaceous, conical or canipanulate, papillate, 

 striate, hygrophanous, when dry isabelline, silky ; stem fistulose, 



