New or Rare British Fungi. Carleton Rea. 325 



Stem 3-6 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, greenish, apex yellowish, be- 

 coming deep blue, or verdigris when bruised or handled, equal, 

 slightly thickened at the white, tomentose base, hollow, fragile, 

 smooth. Gills whitish, or very pale yellowish, then pink, 5-6 mm. 

 wide, broadly adnate, subdistant. Flesh greenish, becoming 

 deep blue, or verdigris when bruised or pressed, thin. Taste and 

 smell none. Spores pink, oblong, angular, 11-15 x 8-iO;u., 

 multi-guttulate. 



Amongst short grass, Benthall Edge, Shropshire, 20th Sep- 

 tember, 1919- 



Differs from Leptonia incana Fr. in the stem and flesh be- 

 coming deep blue or verdigris when bruised or handled, the 

 non-umbilicate, subsquamulose pileus and the absence of a 

 mouse-like smell. 



NOLANEA STRIGOSISSIMA Rea, V. PI. VII. 



Pileus 4-8 mm. latus, 3-5 mm. altus, rufobriinneiis, velferric- 

 gineus, carnosulus, conico-campanulatus, pilis erectis, strigosis, 

 elongatis, obtusis, rufobrunneis et septatis dense obtectus, 450-600 

 X 15-20/i; margine involuto. Stipes i-5-2'5 cm. longus, i mm. 

 crassus, pilei concolor, aequalis, basi leviter incrassatus, e farcto 

 cavus, pilis similibus dense obtectus. Lamellae e brunneo cinereae, 

 demum albo-pruinosae, adnatae, angustae, i mm. latae. Caro 

 concolor, cinerascens, tenuis, firma, inodora et insapora. Sporae 

 pallide roseae, oblongae, angulatae, saepe apiculatae, 15-17 x 

 7-8 /M, 2-guttulatae; basidia pyriformia, vel clavato-capitata, 

 36-40 X 15-18/i,, 4-sterigmatibus arcuatis, 3/x longis. Cystidia 

 acie lamellarum parca, fusiformia, vel lanceolata, 60-70 x 10- 

 I2/X, apice acuta, tenuiter tunicata. Cuticula pilei celluhs pyri- 

 formibus, 25/x in diam. 



Ad ligna mucida Pini sylvestris, St George's College, Wey- 

 bridge, Surrey, 9th October, 1919. Coll. Rev. Philip J. Alexander, 

 S.J. 



Easily known amongst the Nolaneae by the densely strigose 

 pileus and stem. 



Pholiota subsquarrosa Fr. 



Spores ochraceous, oblong-elliptical, 4-5-5 x 2-2-5^. Cyst- 

 idia ochraceous, fusiform, tapering into a long exserted point, 

 25-30 x 6-8 /Lt, thick walled; contents yellowish, granular. 



New Piece Wood, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 26th September, 

 1919, Dr Harold Wager. 



Inocybe conformata Karst. Karst., Krit. Ofvers. Finl. Basid. 

 (1889), 465; Massee, Monog. of the genus Inocybe, 488. 



Pileus 1-3 cm. wide, pale fuscous, or tinged rusty, convex, then 



