HEREFORDSHIRE FUNGUSES. 
AGARICUS (PLUTEUS) LEONINUS, SCHIFF. 
SCARLET VARIETY OF YELLOW PLUTEUS. 
This very beautiful species, which is usually of a tawny yellow, shaded with 
bright orange, or occasionally tinted with purplish brown, was first found by 
Miss Maude Bull, growing in crowded clusters, within the hollow of a decayed 
Elm trunk in 1874, in Hinton Lane, near Hereford, and it continues to appear 
there in more or less abundance annually to the present time, 1879. 
Description.—Pileus, 1-3 in. broad, unbonate, companulate, and then expan- 
ded, sometimes pitted round the umbo, smooth, submembranaceus, witha striate 
margin, variable in colour but usually with bright yellow orange tints. Stem, 
2-3in. high, solid, smooth, striate, downy at base, sometimes rooting, orange 
tinted, but here with scarlet tints at base. Gills, free, broad, yellowish, then flesh 
coloured, rounded behind and in front. Spores, rose coloured, elliptic. Scheff, 
t. 48. Fries’ Epicrisis, 188. Pers. ic. et desc, t. L., f. 8-4. Berk. Out., t. 7, f. 4. 
Engl. f., V., 78. Cooke's Handbook I., 88. Cooke's Grevillea, Vol. VI., pl. 93. 
The colour of the pileus was too brilliant to be represented accurately. This 
variety has not as yet been found elsewhere. 
