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NEW AND EARE HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI, 



By Woethington G. Smith, F.L.S. 



(Tab. 176, 177.) 



The accompanying plates illustrate three species of Fungi recently 

 added to our lists and exhibited at the Fungus shows at Hereford, 

 Perth, and London. Agaricus aureus, Matt., was first found in the 

 neighbourhood of Hereford by Mr. Renny, and the form there found 

 has been described by that gentleman in the " Transactions of the 

 Woolhope Club " as a distinct variety, under the name of Herefordensis. 

 There are several very distinct varieties of this species, and Fries 

 himself originally separated one as distinct under the name of A. 

 Vahlii. Near Perth, however, and in the Moncrieffe Woods last 

 autumn all the varieties of A. aureus were found, one of which, and 

 distinct in trifling characters (notably in the attachment of the gills) 

 from the Hereford plant, is illustrated on plate 177. A.n.oih.QT Pholiota, 

 A. unicolor, Fr., has been found near Hereford by Mr. Eenny. 

 Agaricus (Stropharia) caput- Medusce, Fr., has been found several 

 times by the Rev. J. Stephenson near Glamis, and was exhibited at 

 the last Fungus show at Perth. It is everywhere rare, and a handsome 

 and good type of the subgenus to which it belongs. Agaricus Storea, 

 Fr., has been found near Hereford and Perth, and exhibited at these 

 places ; it has also been found at Reading, Weybridge, and elsewhere, 

 and exhibited in London. It is equally handsome with the last, and 

 an equally good type of another and allied subgenus, Hypholoma. 

 Another interesting Hypholoma, A. cascus, Fr., has been met with by 

 Dr. Buchanan White in Rannoch, Perthshire. 



In 1873, p. 205, we published a figure in the Journal of Botany 

 of an extraordinary new and minute species of Lacfarius, under the 

 name of Z. minimus. Since then this unique species has been met with 

 near Forres, N.B., by the Rev. James Keith, and identified by the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley. 



Explanation of Plates. 



Tab. 176. — Fig. 1, Agaricus (Stropharea'i caput-Medtisce, Fr. Fig. 2, 

 Section of ditto. Fig. 3, Spores of ditto enlarged 700 diam. Fig. 4, Agaricus 

 {Hypholoma) Citorea, Fr. Fig. 5, Section of ditto. Fig. 6, Spores enlarged 700 

 diam. 



Tab. 177.— Fig. 1, 2, Agaricus (Pholiota) aureus, Matt. Fig. 3, Section of 

 ditto. Fig. 4, Spores of ditto enlarged 700 diam. 



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