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Sp. PI. 495 (1753). Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768)." If by this he 

 meant to say that he considered Miller's plant different from that of 

 Linnffius (as I have shown it to be), he chose a very unusual way of 

 doing so. I have already pointed out at some length (Journ. Bot. 

 1896, 271) the dangers which result from a misuse of the Index 

 Keivensis. Mr. Druce is in error in saying that Grenier and Godron 

 " selected F. elatior Ehrh. in preference," for the name they employ 

 is F. magna Thuill., which, as I have already shown (Journ. Bot. 

 1898, 129) antedates Ehrhart's elatior. 



I am glad Mr. Druce has called my attention to Grenier and 

 Godron, for I am now able to explain what had hitherto puzzled me. 

 Mr. Druce cited "i^. inoschata et dioica Duchesne, Hist. Nat. Frais. 

 145"; but no such combination exists in Duchesne's book, nor does 

 the name dioica appear in his list. But I now find that Grenier and 

 Godron cite '' F. dioica et moschata Duch. diet. enc. 2, p. 536," and 

 I have little doubt that this is the source of Mr. Druce's citation. 

 But if he had looked up the Encychqjedie Methodique, he would have 

 found that Grenier and Godron had quoted incorrectly, for Duchesne 

 there gives Fragaria moschata and Fragaria moschata dioica, but has 

 no F. dioica. — James Britten.] 



Basidiomycetes new to Britain. — The following species, I think, 

 have not hitherto been pubhshed as British. Materials either in the 

 form of drawings or examples, or both, are preserved in the Herbarium 

 of the British Museum. They are illustrated on the coloured sheets 

 of Basidiomycetes now in course of execution : — 



Agaricus [Amatiita) aridus Fr. — A. (Fluteus) umhrinellus Sommerf. 

 — A. {Entoloma) pluteoides Fr. — A. {Crepidotus) prohoscideus ¥v. — 

 A. [PsaUiota) dulcidulus Schulz. — A. (Psalliota) callosus Fr. — 

 A. [Psathyra) Loscosii Rabh. — Coprhius tuberostis Quel. This was 

 given as the "first British record" by Mr. George Massee in the 

 Kew Bulletin for "April" [published August or September] , 1897, 

 but the drawing has been exhibited in the Public Gallery since 1894. 

 — Cortinarius [Phlegmaciimi) vespertinus Fr. — C. [Phlegmacium) 

 olivascens Fr. — C. (Inoloma) argutus Fr. — Leuzites Jieteromorpha Fr. 

 — Boletus rutilans Fr. — B. candicans Fr. — Polyporus osseus Kalch. — 

 P. imhricatus Fr. — P. corticola Fr. The drawings are now complete 

 to the end of the genus PoJyporus. 



A considerable number of other Basidiomycetes new to Britain 

 have been found whilst the drawings have been in hand — too late 

 for illustration on the sheets. Some of these, to the end of the 

 AgaricinecE, are : — Agaricus [Amanita) reciititus Fr. — A. {Lejuota) 

 nympharum Fr. — A. (Tricholoma) coryphceus Fr. — A. (Tricholoma) 

 hordiis Fr. — A. [Tricholoma) elytroides Fr. — A. [Tricholoma) amicus 

 Fr. — A. [Entoloma) porphyrophceus Fr. — Cortinarius [Hygrocyhe) 

 sciophyllus Fr. 



The following species of Polyporece and Hydnece new to Britain 

 have been sketched: — Dcedalea polyzona P. — Merulius aureus Fr. — 

 M, squalidus Fr. — Hydnum J'usipes P. — H. multiplex Fr. — H. 

 pinastri Fr. — H. pulcherrimum B. & Curt. — Odontia cristulata Fr. 



WoRTmNGTON G. SmiTH. 



