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NEW AND RARE BRITISH HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI. 
By Worruinaton G. SurTH, Esq, F.L.S. 
(Prates LXXXIX. and XC.) 
During the abnormal summer and autumn of last year (1868) a 
large number of new British species of hymenomycetous Fungi ap- 
peared in various parts of the country: of these several were noticed 
in this Journal at the time, while others remain at present undescribed. 
I select for illustration and description the following four species :— 
Lactarius CONTROVERSUS, Pers. ; stem stout, swollen, one or two 
inches long, sometimes eccentric, pruinose at the top, never marked 
with pits or depressions ; gills decurrent with an obscure tooth ; pileus 
fleshy, compact, rigid, convex, then depressed and subinfundibuliform, 
at first dry, but after rain viscid in all its parts, margin at first invo- 
lute and villous; stem and pileus more or less covered with blood-red 
spots and smears; flesh very firm, like Z. piperatus, Fr., milk white, 
unchangeable, plentiful. Odour faint, but pleasant, taste exceedingly 
acrid. 
This noble addition to our Cryptogamic Flora was found by Dr. 
. M. M‘Cullough at and near Abergavenny, and forwarded through 
Dr. Bull, of Hereford, to the Exhibition of Fungi at the Royal Hor- 
ticultural Society last autumn; the specimens sent to London grew 
under Poplars, about a mile and a half from Abergavenny; it also 
grew in great luxuriance (again with Poplars) at Abergavenny, forming 
a semicircle of some twenty feet in diameter. The specimens were 
crowded together in great numbers, and several attained a diameter of 
more than a foot ; the specimen selected for illustration was one of the 
smallest, in order to get it on to the plate. In general appearance it 
considerably resembles several other Lactarii, as L. vellereus, Fr., and 
L. insulus, Fr., but it differs in many characters; it is highly acrid, 
and feels and looks soapy. 
PoLYPORUS SANGUINOLENTUS, Fr.; nodulose, then confluent, effused, 
soft, white, or cream-coloured, when touched becoming rosy brown ; 
margin byssoid and fugitive; pores small, subrotund, unequal, at 
leagth torn. 
This species, new to this country, I found growing in abundance on 
the perpendicular sides of a disused sawpit in Mr. Hebb’s = Mild- 
VOL. Vil. [MARCH 1, 1869.] 
