322 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



NEW OR RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



With Plate VII. 



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



Amanita aculeata Quel. Quel., Fl. M3'c. 305 ; Quel., Champ, du 

 Jura et des Vosges, i, 309, as Amanita echinocephala Vitt., t. i, 

 fig. I, as Amanita strohilifonnis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1102, t. 939, 

 as Agaricus {Amanita) solitariiis Bull. 



Pileus 5-10 cm. wdde, white, becoming greyish, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, densely covered with erect, slender, pointed, angular, 

 firm, adnate, whitish or greyish warts, that become tinged with 

 bistre with age; margin white, smooth. Stem 5-12 cm. long, 2- 

 5 cm. thick, whitish, solid, equal, floccosely scaly; base bulbous, 

 often attenuated downwards, surrounded by several concentric, 

 crenulate zones, the remains of the volva. Ring white, superior, 

 thin, torn, striate, often becoming fugacious. Gills white, be- 

 coming yellowish wdth age, 5-15 mm. wide, sinuate behind, 

 crowded. Flesh white, then tinged with yellow, thick, soft. 

 Smell and taste pleasant. Spores white, broadly elliptical, or 

 subglobose, with a basal apiculus, lo-ii x 8-9//,, contents 

 granular. 



On the ground amongst beech leaves, Wood Norton, Wor- 

 cestershire, I2th October, 1918. 



Easily known by the firm, erect, pointed, angular warts on 

 the pileus from the very first. In Amanita strobiliformis (Paul.) 

 Quel, the warts are large, pyramidal, floccose and somewhat 

 separable, and in Amanita solitaria (Bull.) Fr. the warts are 

 plate-like, floccose at first, but becoming firmer with age. Ama- 

 nita Vittadinii Moretti differs in the gills finally becoming 

 greenish. 



Lepiota scobineUa (Fr.) Quel. & Bataille. Quel. & Bataille, Fl, 

 Monogr. des Amanites et des Lepiotes, 69; Fr., Hym. Eur. 26, 

 as Agaricus (Amanita) scobinellus Fr., see PI. VII. 



Pileus 3-6 cm. wide, mouse grey, disc darker, convex, then 

 plane, umbonate, pellicle breaking up into minute, separable, 

 bistre scales; margin whitish, smooth, silky. St. 4-6 cm. long, 

 4-7 mm. thick, white, stuffed, equal, slightly attenuated at the 

 apex and base, covered with white squamules, that become tinged 



