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CORTINJRIUS (PHLEGMACIUM) RVSSUS, Fr. 



By H. G. Bull, M.D. 



(Plate CX.) 



This very striking funous is a recent addition to British mycology. 

 It was exhibited by me at the first Fungus Exhibition held at South 

 Kensington in 18G8, and it has been found in several places in 

 Herefordshire each succeeding year. An excellent coloured representa- 

 tion of it is given in the volume of the ' Transactions of the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field Club' for 1869, and the sketch here given is from 

 the same drawing. 



The following are the botanical characters of this fungus : — 



Flleus. — Fleshy, convex, then flattened, obtuse, viscid, glabrous at 

 the disc, fibrous at the margin, brittle, uniformly red ; ve'U tender, 

 fugacious. 



Gills. — Obtusely adnate, scarcely perceptibly rounded, or with a 

 slight decurrent tootli, crowded, veined, of a red peroxide of iron 

 colour, similar to the pileus. 



Stem. — Stuffed, thin, lioUow, not bulbous, often curvato-ascending, 

 soft, streaked with fine silky fibres, somewhat pruinose at the apex, 

 Flavour not bitter, but nauseous. 



AS/7om.— Brown, -00032" x -QOOa". 



It grows solitarily, or in small patches in Herefordshire woods, and 

 has been gathered several times in Haywood Forest and Dinedor 

 Wood, near Hereford. 



Explanation of Plate CX. — Fig. 1 and 2. Cortinarhix (^Ph/e/jmaciumJ 

 russus. Fig. 3. Section of the same. Fig. 4. Spores X 700 diameters. 



VIBURNUM TOMENTOSUM, Thanh., IN SOUTHERN CHINA, 

 By Henry Fletcher H.\nce, Ph.D., etc. 



The occurrence of this plant, detected in April of the present year, 

 by Mr. Sampson, near the summit of the Pakwan hills, overlooking 

 Canton, is interesting as affording another link between the floras of 



VOL. VI II. [sEPTKMniCK 1, 1870.] 5'. 



