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p. 683, the wood is said to be equal in beauty and similar in 
character to that of other eastern maples, and is more valued than 
any other native hardwood in Britisk Columbia and Washington. 
The largest tree known to Mr. Elwes in this country is growing at 
Boynton, in Yorkshire. When measured a few years ago it was 
70 aves he and 6 feet in girth, and had been planted about 
60 year 
This « species may be distinguished from others by means of its 
large sycamore-like leaves, which are sometimes 9 inches across, and 
by its hairy fruits. The pendulous racemes of fruits are sometimes 
very conspicuous, for they are from 6 to 9 inches long, and the 
wings are i ganene red in colour. Fertile seeds are borne on trees 
at Kew. A. macrophyllum is likely to thrive under similar con- 
ditions to the common sycamore, and as its wood is apparently quite 
equal in quality, there would appear to be no reason to doubt of its 
ving a commercial success, providing it thrives nerd 
under forest conditions. It could be grown as a pure wood or as a 
mixture with beech or silver fir for a companion. Planting might 
be done at 4 feet apart. ve 
XXVI—FUNGI EXOTICI: XII. 
(With Plate.) 
G. Masser. 
Eleven new fungi are here described from material sent to the 
Royal Botanic Gardens from the Malay Peninsula, Tropical 
Africa, Natal and Queensland. Of those described the Puccinia 
appears to be the most serious as it is a destructive disease of the 
emon grass at Entebbe, Uganda 
AGARICACEAE. 
Clitocybe egregia, Massee. 
Pileus carnosus, convexo-umbilicatus, real pallido-ochraceus, 
centro obscuriore, fibrillis fuscis centro praesertim virgatus, margine 
lobato primitusque involuto, 25-30 cm. Tata Lamellae decur- 
rentes, subdistantes, perangustae, crassiusculae, subfurcatae, acie 
integra, albidae, aetate brunneo-tinctae. Stipes "deus, 25-35 hl aieg 
hyalinae, 8 x 5 pu. Car Rea palli 
SINGAPORE. “On the ground, ide, 89. 
but the bad species far exce eeds in size those staan 
described. C. egregia is most nearly allied to C. maxima, the latter 
being distinguished by the decries infundibuliform, glabrous pileus, 
much shorter stem, paler colour and smaller spores, 
