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but there seems to be no evidence that this fungus was the 
cause of death. It was not, however, observed on other varieties 
of plum. The saprophyte Merulius pinastri frequently occurs 
in greenhouses and hothouses, and thrives so well in the moist, 
Ww ere as to become sometimes quite a pest. Helmin- 
wound, and was growing further parasitically, but probably it 
= as a rule a saprophyte, and would not attack an uninjured 
plan 
The four following species are additions to the Flora of the 
oyal Gardens, Kew:—JLepiota nauseosa, Wakef., Merulius 
puns (Fr.) Burt, Mastigosporiwm album, Riess, var. 
ap pies Sacc., and Helminthosporium Warpuriae, Wakef. 
The colour terms used are those of Ridgway’s ‘‘ Color 
Standards and Color Nomenclature.” 
Lepiota nauseosa, Wakef. sp. nov. 
Pileus expansus, subumbonatus, carneo-ochraceus, circa 12 
cm. 
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bulbosus, albidus, intus pte caro stipitis albida fracta 
.praesertim infra flavescens. Annulus superus, araneosus, fugax. 
Sporae bela, globosae, basi apiculatae, 6°5-8 p. Odor 
nauseosus. 
On soil in a ooran House, Be Feb. 
hazel. The annulus is coloured like the pileus, but paler, and 
the fibrils on the stem are hazel. The whole fungus has a heavy, 
sickening odour 
= ot pinastri, Burt in Ann. Miss. Bot. Gard. iv., 1917, 
Hydnum pinastri, Fr, Obs s. Myc. 
A Bae. which is apparently Shy es occurred in 
pitas in the Tropical Pits at Kew in September, 1917, 
owing over benches, flower-pots, the cedar chips in ch 
Sa pots are imbedded, and on an old jece of iackbigr The 
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