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AGARICUS (BNTOLOMA) JUBATUS, PR. 



This species was also shown at Kensington last autumn by Dr. Bull. He 

 fonnd it growing in great abundance on Merry-Mil Common, and in and near 

 Haywood Forest, near Hereford ; it grew in dense clusters, some of them taking 

 a circular form. Young specimens are acutely oampanulate, and full grown 

 plants attain a height of five or more inches and a diameter of three pr four. A 

 small specimen is however selected for iUustratien to meet the restricted size of 

 the plate. The taste, like that of many other pink-spored species, is watery 

 and very disagreeable. I am not aware that this species has. been before pub- 

 lished as British, but I understand it was found by the Rev. M. J, Berkeley 

 a year or two ago, at Ascot ; and Mr. Currey informs me he found specimens 

 on* October 13, 1868, in a meadow adjoining a house called Twisden, between 

 Gondhurst and Kilndown, in Sussex. Mr. Currey was kind enough to forward 

 me specimens, which precisely correspond with the Hereford plants. 



Agaeicus (Entoloma) Jubatds, F. — Stem fleshy, glossy, striate, and 

 ehining, white at the base, stuffed or hollow, clothed with minute sooty fibres. 

 Pileus fleshy, campanulate, at first acutely, then obscurely umbonate, clothed 

 with fibres, glossy, not hygrophanous, gills slightly adnexed, inclined to be 

 ventricose. 



HYGROPHORUS CALYPTR^FORBIIS, B. and br. 



This distinct and beautiful species occurred in abundance in Holm Lacy 

 Park last autumn ; where attention was first drawn to it and the first specimens 

 gathered by J. Grifiith Morris, Esq.* It grew amongst furze and in open places 

 bordering the plantations. As it has not been figured before, our plate may 

 perhaps lead to its detection elsewhere by other members of the Woolhope 

 Club. It was first found many years ago by Mr. Broome, the eminent mycologist, 

 on Hanham Common, near Bristol, but the habitat is now destroyed, and the 

 plant has disappeared from the district. It is thus described in Berkeley's 

 Outlines of British Fungology, p. 202 :— 



Hygeophords caltpte^formis, B. and Be.: Pileus thin, acutely conical^ 



lobed below, minutely innato-fibrillose ; stem white, smooth, slightly striate; 



hollow ; gills rose-coloured, at length pallid, very narrow, acutely attenuated 

 behind. 



One or two Fungi found by the Rev. W, Houghton, and not before 

 referred, deserve a word here. First, Agaricus ( Flaniriiula) sapineus, Fr. — a 

 very rare British plant not in Berkeley's Outlines, and Agaricus (Clitocyhe) 

 fumosus P. var polius Fr., in great abundance and luxuriance in the woods 

 round the Wrekin; always on charcoal heaps. These large agarics were black 

 with charcoal dust, which caused Mr. Houghton to refer to them as "the 

 dirty dogs." A splendid and rare variety of PoJyporus perennis, L. Tinted 

 with rich sienna, chocolate, and black, in gi'eat abundance, was also found on the 

 charcoal heaps. 



* Thanks are especially due to Mr. Morris for driving Mr. Lees and myself over to 

 Haywood Forest on the following day (Saturday), the 10th October, 1808. Had it not been 

 for his kindness, Strobilomyces atrobUaceus, B., one of the rarest of British fungi, would 

 D0( have been added to the Herefordshire list. 



