New Species of Fungi hnperjccli. J. S. Bayliss Elliott. 6i 



19. Sli'rig}intt(>cvslis pliwoccphala . Group ot fertile 



In plitC, X 120. 



20. Inllalcd apex of fertile h\piicO willi conidiophores bear- 



ing 3 or 4 steri^mata, x 350. 



21. Conidia, some in chains, and some still attached to 



sterigmata x 600. 



NEW OR RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



With Plate II. 

 By Carleton Rea, B.C.L., M.A., etc. 



Lepiota fulvella Rea, v. t. II., fig. 2. 



Pileus 3-5 cm. latus, fulveUus, carnosulus, margine tenuis, 

 e convexo-campanulato expanso-subumbonatus, squamulis ad- 

 pressis, saturatioribus arete vestitus. Stipes 3-6 cm. longus, 

 3-6 mm. crassus, pileo concolor, aeqiialis, vel deorsum attenu- 

 atus, fistulosus, laevis ; annulus albidus, inferus, fugax. Caro 

 aquosa, albida, inodora et insapora. Lamellae 4-6 mm. latae, 

 e pallido ochraceae, postice rotundato liberae, confertae. 

 Sporae hyalinae, angulato-oblongatae, basi truncatae, apice 

 acutae, g-io x 3.5-4,u. ut plurimum 1-2-guttulatae ; basidia cla- 

 vata, 4-sterigmatica, cvstidia siibglobosa vel pyriformia, 14-18 

 x8-i2/i. Ad terram nudam in nemoribus frondosis. Plow- 

 den, Salop, 25-ix.-i9i7. 



Distinguished in the Clypeolariae section of Lepiotae by 

 its tawny colour, adpressedlv squamulose pileus, smooth stem, 

 and the oblong spores, truncate at the base and acute or acute- 

 ly angular at the apex. 



Lepiota rosea Rea, v. t. II., fig. i. 



Pileus 2-3.5 cm. latus, laete rosetis, carnosulus, margine 

 tenuis, e convexo expansus, granulis gJobosis dense obsitus. 

 Stipes 5-6 cm. longus, 3-5 mm. crassus, albidus, dein pileo con- 

 color, aequalis, fistulosus, laevis; annulus pileo concolor, an- 

 gustus, medius, mox evanidus. Caro albida dein rubescens, 



