274 FUNGI : HYMENOMYCETES. 



Other respects it does not differ from the mature plant. Miss Hunter 

 has found it on one spot only in the wood behind the house of 

 Anton' s-hill, and there sparingly. Like most of its genus it is eaten 

 greedily by slugs and the maggot of a dipterous fly ; and it seems 

 to be, says Miss Hunter, " a most favourite food of a sort of beetle," 

 which permits very few specimens to attain maturity without great 

 mutilation. 



2. Agaricus Belli^e. Plate X. fig. 1. Berkeley in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. vi. 356. pi. 10. figs. 1-4. — " Pileus membranaceous, inverted, 

 deeply cyathiform, half an inch broad, smooth, waved and furrowed 

 at the edges, of a wood-brown hue, becoming paler when dry. Gills 

 adnato-decurrent, at least in the inverted pileus, 1 line broad, rather 

 distant, thick, more or less undulated, wrinkled on the sides and 

 in the interstices with flexuous veins, once or twice divided near the 

 edge, of a dull chalky white. Spores oblong, colourless, pellucid. 

 Stem li inch high, about 1 line thick, fistular throughout, erect, 

 stiff and elastic, smooth, white or very pale wood-brown above, 

 towards the base of a dirty dark brown, becoming paler when dry, 

 when it appears covered with a white mealiness. It is composed of 

 two distinct strata, as will be seen by the figure. Root slightly in- 

 crassated, bent and fixed to the matrix by a dense cottony web. — A 

 very remarkable and graceful species. The inversion of the pileus 

 commences at a very early period, and together with the vein-like 

 gills, gives it somewhat the appearance of a Stylobates, in which 

 genus the pileus is completely obliterated. Its place in the system 

 is near that of A. tricolor, A. & S., A. stellatus. Sow., &c., but its 

 immediate affinities are not evident. It has analogies with several 

 Collybise and the cognate species of Marasmius, as M. erythropus, 

 Fr. The gills are very peculiar." 



Agaricus Bellise was found by Miss E. Bell growing from dead 

 stalks of the common Reed at the Hirsel ; nor has it been found any- 

 where else. Mr. Berkeley's description, and our figure, are derived 

 from specimens communicated by Miss E. Bell ; and, at my request, 

 Mr. Berkeley gave her name to the species, — an honour which she 

 merited at my hand on account of the many interesting additions 

 she had made to the Berwickshire Flora. 



3. Agaricus LEPORiNus^Hygrophorusleporinus. Found upon 

 the moor above Twizell-house by Mr. Selby in Sept. 1849. Drawings 

 made from living specimens were sent to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley ; 

 and the name we owe to his kind attention. I know of no descrip- 

 tion of the species. 



4. Irpex lacteus. Berkeley in Brit. Fl. ii. 2. p. 161. — I found 

 this "most elegant fungus" on the trunk and branches of a Beech at 

 Newwaterhaugh, nearly twenty-five years ago ; and it has never since 

 been my good fortune to see it. 



5. Clavaria rosea, Berkeley in Hooker's Brit. Fl. ii. 2. p. 175, 

 — This fine species was added to the British Flora by our friend 

 and fellow-member Dr. Francis Douglas, who found it growing, in 



