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inodora et insapora. Lamellae 4-5 mm. latae, ex albido sub- 

 ochraceae, postice rotundato liberae, confertae. Sporae hya- 

 linae, ellipticae, 5x3/^., i-guttulatae ; basidia clavata, 4-sterig- 

 matica; cvstidia in speciminibus examinatis nulla. Ad terram 

 nudam in nemoribus humosis et frondosis, Caughley, Salop, 

 29-ix.-i9i7. 



Easily known amongst the Granulosae group of Lepiotae by 

 its deep rose colour, granular pileus, smooth stem, and the 

 flesh becoming reddish. The fugacious globose cells on the 

 pileus measure 45-50/^1 in diameter. 



Boletus lacteus Lev. Lev. An. sc. n. (1848), 124. Quel. Fl. 

 Myc, 425. 



Pileus 10-15 cm. wide, pure ivhite, convex, gibbous, minute- 

 ly tomentose. Stem g-12 cm. long, 4-6 cm. thick, pure ivhite, 

 incrassated at the base, firm, velvety, stuffed with a spongy 

 pith and cavernous, at length hollowed out. Tubes white, 

 free, short ; orifice of pores white, minute, round or angular. 

 Flesh white, beconung deep indigo blue on exposure to the 

 air, spongy, thick at the disc, thin at the margin of the pileus. 

 Spores white, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 4-5yU, 3-5-guttulate. 



On the ground, under oak and nut bushes, Shrawley Wood, 

 i2th August, 1917. 



Resembling Boletus cyanescens in the flesh, turning a deep 

 indigo blue color when sectioned, but differing in the pure 

 white colour of the pileus and stem and the thickened base 

 of the stem. 



Clavaria cinerea (Bull.) Fr. var. gracilis Rea, v. t. IL, fig. 4. 



Varietas a typo recedens, statura majore, trunco tenui, 

 ramis ramulisque gracilibus. 



This variety has a facies quite distinct from the type. The 

 trunk is long and slender and divides up into numerous taper- 

 ing branches and branchlets. The spores are white, subglo- 

 bose, with a basal apiculus, 9 x 8/^, with a large central gutta. 



On bare soil in woods. Caughley, Salop, and Shrawley, 

 Worcestershire. 



Clavaria rugosa (Bull.) Fr. var. fuliginea Fr. Fr. Hvm. Eur. 

 669. 



Differs from the type in the dark, sooty colour of the clubs 

 and flesh. 



On the ground, Caughley Wood, Salop, 29th September, 

 1917. 



