NEW AND RARE BRITISH HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI. 251 
an Apple-tree, branch 9 ft. from the ground, fungus 4ft. 6 in. from 
the trunk. — Staplehurst, Kent. 
A. (Pleurotus) euosmus, Berk. This curious and little-known 
species has been most abundant about London and elsewhere this 
spring ; in every instance that has come to my knowledge it has been 
found upon Elm. I saw it near Tottenham and other places, growing 
in abundance with Z. ostreatus, Jacq., from which it is quite distinct. 
Its cartilaginous stem, tinted spores, and powerful aromatic odour, 
point rather to the genus Lentinus than Agaricus. On elm stumps, 
. Broome's garden, Batheaston. Elm stumps, Street, Somerset, 
Mr. J. A. Clarke, who writes me to say it is esculent, and that he has 
repeatedly eaten it. In the account given of this plant by Dr. Bad- 
ham, it is said to be dangerous. 
A. (Pleurotus) salignus, Hoffm. Infesting dead Willow-trees side 
of New River, Stoke Newington, 1868, 1869. 
A. (Pleurotus) atro-ceruleus, Fr. On a rotten stump. Bilton 
Wood, near Teignmouth, Devon; Mrs. Gulson. 
A. (Paneolus) retirugis, Batsch. Common on cow-dung. Epping 
Forest, Feb. 1869. Pileus marked with prominent veins, very dif- 
ferent from any other Pancolus. 
Coprinus radians, Fr. This species I found growing luxuriantly 
May 22, 1869, on the damp, sloping ceiling in the scullery of the 
residence of my friend, G. Manville Fenn, Esq., Fyfield, near Ongar. 
Lentinus tigrinus, Fr. I gathered several specimens of this rare 
plant, in company with my friend Mr. Broome, from a rotten, mossy 
trunk (probably Ash) in a pond at Fyfield, near Ongar, Essex. Spores 
white; smell disagreeable. May 22, 1869. 
L. lepideus, Fr. This rare species of which I once found a single 
specimen near Tottenham, has appeared in several places this summer, 
and, with one exception, always wader railway bridges. Dr. Chapman, 
of Abergavenny, found it growing oz a railway bridge at that place in 
July; it came up through the roadway and its origin could not be 
ascertained from above. On Dr. M‘Cullough examining the under side 
of the bridge he found thirty or forty specimens, all old and black 
from the smoke from the engines, growing from between the fir plank- 
ing. Shortly after, the same species was found under four or five 
bridges about Abergavenny by Dr. Steele. On July 29, Dr. Bull 
found it growing at Hereford, “from between the timbers under- 
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