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flattish, when old concave, i. e. turned up all round the magin, blood- 

 red, dull, opaque, then dark reddish-brown, nearly uniform all over, 

 but slightly paler or with subpallid spots in the centre, not cracked, 

 not distinctly tomentose, but grumose with little shallow irregular 

 pits when old, slightly viscid; flesh whitish, turning slowly blue 

 when cut, beginning near the pores. Pores yellow, \-\ cm. long, 

 shorter near the stem, but slightly decurrent, large and somewhat 

 compound when old, turning dark blue or greenish where touched. 

 Stipe 3^-5 X l^-li cm., glabrous (not fibrillosely striate), even, 

 yellow like the gills, clouded here and there with dilute crimson, 

 somewhat thicker below^ ; flesh yellow, tinged with red within. Spores 

 fusoid, pale olivaceous, 12-13 X 4-4^ /u. 



Among grass in my garden, July, 1920. A coloured sketch will 

 be deposited in the collection of figures at Kew. 



This is a satisfactory identification of a rare and dubious Midland 

 fungus ; there is more pleasure in such a recognition of what was 

 intended by one of the old pioneers than in finding a new species. 

 Withering seems to have found it first in the button state, but 

 he also describes the more advanced state which was absolutely 

 identical with ni}^ specimens, so far as words go. But, so long ago as 

 1886, I found amongst grass in Packington Park (ten miles away) a 

 fungus which seemed to combine the characters of B. sanguineus 

 witli those of B. siihtomentosus. The pileus differed from that just 

 described in being slightly cracked, feeling like kid-leather when dry, 

 the stem was ribbed and tapered downwards, and the flesh of the 

 pileus reddish below the cuticle. Also there have occurred at Barnt 

 Green and Berkswell specimens referred to B. versicolor Post, (the 

 name Avas confirmed at Kew) which had the pileus of a beautiful 

 pinkish-purple (no trace of olive), uniform all over and faintly granu- 

 lated, not cracked, pores and stem much as in B. chrysenteron. 



The similarity of all these specimens proves that they should be 

 classed under one head, say, B. chrysenteron. The only reasonable 

 solution of the difticulty lies in a system of super-species and sub- 

 species, the latter being euchrysenteron^ sanguineus, siihtomentosns, 

 and versicolor. The continental influence, which has set us against 

 the adoption of this commonsense device for representing the facts, 

 is now^ happily declining in our midst. 



MoNiLiA CANDiCAis's Sacc. Syll. iv. 32 ; Fung. Ital. pi. 57. 



Fertile hyphse forming short aggregated tufts, yellowish, tlien 

 whitish, erect or diverging, at length irregularlj^ branched above, 

 colourless under the microscope, distantly septate, about 7 n wide. 

 Conidia in short chains (up to five or six in each chain), springing 

 from small denticles on the hyphaj near the sunnnit of the ujiper 

 cells, lemon-shaped, h3^aline or faintly coloured, 15-18 x 9-10 /{. 



On soft carious wood, Cofton Park, near Barnt Green, July, 

 1920. 



This fungus exactly agrees with Saccardo's description and figure, 

 but it is more interesting because it seems likely that it is the same 

 as the minute fungus which Purton records in his famous Ilidland 

 Flora (1821, vol. iii. p. 320) under the name Monilia ccesintosa 

 Kelh. He also figures it in his plate 34, which he tells us is " a very 



