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shining, slightly but coarsely strigose, stem long, rooting, pores long, 

 angular, minute, elegantly toothed and lacerated ; whole plant almost 

 woody, but at length becoming fragile and breaking up like dry 

 touchwood ; surface of pileus breaking up into hispid rugosities. 



Allied to F. Sector, Tr., and approaching Trametes in its toothed 

 pores, which are, however, distinct in substance from the pileus, and 

 not the same with it as in Trametes. 



This highly curious plant occurred on imported Tree-Fern Stem.s 

 {Bieksonia antardicct) at Messrs. Veitchand Sons' Nursery at Chelsea, 

 March, 1873, where I have not since seen it ; the stem of the fungus 

 started from the central stem of the Bicksonia, and the pileus emerged 

 from between the aereal roots. [Tab. 162, figs. 4 — 8.] 



6. Laschia coccinea, nov. sp. — Pileus membranaceous, bullate, 

 gelatinous ; stem lateral, gelatinous, minutely strigose ; pores large, 

 hexagonal with gelatinous walls ; whole plant brilliant vermilion. 



This extremely elegant plant, which has something of the habit 

 of Favolus Spr^icei, B., completely covered the cylindrical trunk of 

 an Encephcdartos at Mr. Bull's Nursery, Chelsea, 20th Feb., 1873, 

 where I have not since seen it. Yery distinct from any other 

 described species of Lasehia, and much more regular than L. Thwai- 

 tesii, B. & Br. Allied to X. cinnabar ina, B. & C, which is however 

 stemless. [Tab. 162, figs. 9— 13.] 



7. Hydmmi squamosimi, Schseif. — Pileus fleshy, irregular, gla- 

 brous, broken into irregular rufous-brown scales ; stem short, whitish, 

 attenuated downwards ; spines grey-brown, with a white apex. In 

 pine-woods, rare. Small, inflexible, flesh thick, white. Pr. Epic, 

 p. 505. Nov. Ed., p. 598. 



This rare plant was sent on to me (as H. imbricatum) by Mr. J. 

 Aubrey Clark, of Street, Somerset, in September, 1873, on the eve 

 of the Fungus Show at South Kensington, where I exhibited it. It 

 is closely allied to H. imhricatum, but is distinguished by its smaller 

 size, white flesh, and other characters. It also possesses an abominably 

 foetid odour, which is not the case with its allies. [Tab. 161, figs. 

 1-3.] 



{Agancus {Lepiota) carcharias, Fr. — We announced this plant as 

 British (as a variety oi A. granulosus, Batsch.) in "Journal of 

 Botany," vol. xi., p. 335. "We are now very glad to see that Fries 

 has elevated A. carcharias to the dignity of a species, removing it 

 from the immediate neighbourhood of A. granulosus, and placing it 

 between A. Fauletii, Fr., and A. cinnaharimis, A. & S.) 



Explanation of Plates. 



Tab. 161. — Fig. 1. Sijdnum squamosum, ^Qhse^. ; 2. Section of ditto ; 3. Sporep, 

 enlarged 700 diam. ; 4—6. Agaricus {Eccilia)^flosculus, nov. sp. ; 7. iSection of 

 ditto; 8. Trama of ditto; 9. Spore?, enlarged 760 diam.; 10, 11. Agaricus 

 {Eccilia) atropunctus, P. ; 12. Section of ditto ; 13. Spores, enlarged 700 diam.; 

 14 — 18. Agaricus {Eccilia) acus, nov. sp. ; 19. Section of ditto ; 20. Spores, en- 

 larged TOO diam. 



Tab. 162. — Fig. 1. Boletus siilfureus, Fr ; 2. Section of ditto ; 3. Spores, en- 

 larged '(00 diam.; 4. Pohjporus penetralis, nov, sp., upper surface; 5. Ditto, lower 

 surface ; 6. Section ; 7. Section of tubes, enlarged ; 8. Spores, enlarged 700 diam. 

 9. Laschia coccinia, nov. sp., natural size ; 10. Under surface of ditto, enlarged ; 

 11. Size of ditto, enlarged ; 12. Section of ditto, enlarged ; 13. Spores, enlarged 

 700 diam. 



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