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Dzcapzs or Funar: dy the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. 
Decades XXI. and XXII. 
North and South Carolina Fungi ; by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley and the 
Rev. M. A. Curtis. 
The Fungi included in these and some succeeding Decades were 
collected in the two Carolinas by the Rev. M. A. Curtis, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Hillsborough and Society Hill, and on the Santee River, 
South Carolina, by Mr. H. W. Ravenel. A vast quantity of European 
forms and many of the rarest species occur in their extensive collec- 
tions, amounting to nearly 2,000 numbers, and amongst them others 
belonging to the Floras of Cuba, Guiana, and Central America. There 
are also a multitude of undescribed species, exhibiting very interesting 
types, but seldom new genera. Great attention has lately been paid 
to American Fungi, and the practised eye of the Mycologist of Prague, 
now sojourning at Neu Braunfels in Texas, will without doubt come in 
aid of the extensive labours of Schweinitz and more recent observers 
to give us as intimate an acquaintance with the American forms of 
this frequently neglected tribe, as we now possess of European species. 
The descriptions have been drawn up in great measure from notes made 
when the individuals were gathered, which have proved most useful, and 
have prevented some errors which are almost inseparable from mere 
Herbarium specimens, and, happily, many of the most puzzling species 
have been collected in a variety of states, so as to enable us to com- 
bine forms which at first seemed widely different, and consequently to 
prevent the proposition of some spurious species. 
* Agaricus aspratus, Berk. Curt. No, 1478 
This exquisite species, which in Ceylon occurs on the ground in 
shady places, is found in the swamps of South Carolina. 
201. Agaricus (Amanita) agglutinatus, Berk. and: Curt.; pileo ex 
hemispherico plano viseido e volva areolato, margine salóntd ; stipite 
curto solido; lamellis latis liberis rotundatis. Curt., No. 1322. 
Has. On the ground in sandy woods. Aug., 1847. South Carolina. 
White, pileus 1-2 inches broad, hemispherical, becoming plane, 
La scaly from the remains of the volva; margin thin, suleate. Stem 
2 inch high, two lines thick, solid, enlarged at the apex, bulbous 
at a base, furnished with a eg whose margin is free. Ring 
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