ROYAL BOTANIO GARDENS, KEW. 



BULLETIN 



OF 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



No. 1.] 



[1908. 



I.-FUNGI EXOTICL VII. 



5 



G. Massee. 



The Fungi enumerated and described in the following pages 

 were all collected in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The 

 specimens were sent to Kew by Mr. H. N. Ridley, F.R.S., Director 

 of the Gardens, together with very beautifully executed coloured 

 drawings, which have been placed with the specimens in the 

 Herbarium. The drawings were made by Mr. Charles George 

 de Alwis, grandson of the Ceylon artist Mr. de Al wis, who figured 

 the extensive series of Fungi collected by Thwaites in Ceylon. 



This well-preserved collection of specimens from Singapore, 

 accompanied by such excellent figures, has afforded one of the few 

 opportunities for dealing with fleshy exotic Fungi in a satis- 

 factory manner. All the previously described species included 

 in this list, with the exception of Boletus scaler, Fries, have been 

 recorded from Ceylon. 



-Tricholoma nudum, Pers., and Boletus scaler, Fries, are common 

 species in Britain. 



Lepiota licmophora, Berk, and Br., and L^citriopliylla, Berk. 



and Br., first recorded from Ceylon, have been imported to this 



country, and are now not uncommon in hothouses at Kew and 

 elsewhere. 



The beautiful miniature earthstar, Geaster papyraceus. Berk. 

 and Curt., is the eastern representative of the genus, having 

 previously been recorded from Bonin Island, Hindustan, Ceylon 

 and Japan. 



Agaricaceae. 



Amanita virginea, Massee. Pileus carnosus e convexo expansus, 

 siccus, albidus, flocculoso-squamosus, centro squamoso-hirtus, 

 10-12 cm. latus. Lamellae confertae, latae, ventricosae, Iiberae, 



* Berkeley and Broome in Journ. Linn. Soe. 187J, xi., p. 494. 

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