312 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 



Fig. 10. The anterior extremity of the median piercing-organ, seen from 

 below. 



Fig. 11. The same, seen from the side. 



Fig. 12. The apex of a mandible, seen from the outside. 



Fig. 13. The organs of the mouth separated by pressure, in connexion 

 with the oesophagus (o) and one of the salivary glands opening 

 into it (g), the proventriculus (p), the stomach (s), and the intes- 

 tine (d). 



Fig. 14. The median piercing-organ, seen from the side. 



XXXIV.— Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berke- 

 ley, M.A., F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq. 



[Plates XIII.-XVIL] 



[Continued from vol. vii. p. 458.] 



It will appear from the present notices that the Fungi of the 

 British Isles are by no means exhausted, even as regards [the 

 more noble species. The Rev. G. H. Sawyer has opened out 

 quite a new field in the neighbourhood of Ascot, where he has 

 detected two important genera, Spa?*assis and Rhizina, together 

 with several species not hitherto detected in Great Britain, 

 besides rediscovering the long-lost Helvetia pannosa of Sowerby. 

 Mr. F. Currey has moreover detected a true Nidularia. Scot- 

 land, Wales, the West of England, and Warwickshire have also 

 afforded such a good harvest as greatly to encourage further 

 research, especially in those districts which have not hitherto 

 been explored. Meanwhile the importance of this tribe of plants 

 in an economical and nosological point of view is daily more 

 generally recognized ; so that we may consider the study rather 

 in the ascendant, and may hope for new labourers in the field, 

 in which we are glad to hail Mr. M. C. Cooke as a recent and 

 valuable colleague. 



986. Agaricus (Amanita) spissus, Fr. Ep. p. 9; Currey, in Linn. 

 Tr. vol. xxiv. p. 151. 



Combe Place, Lewes, F. Currey. 



*A. (Lepiota) melcagris, Sow. t. 171. This species came up 

 abundantly in a hothouse at Coed Coch, Denbighshire, amongst 

 spent tan, both in 1861 and during August of the present year, 

 and is certainly a Lepiota closely allied to A. clypeolarius. Two 

 forms occur which run into each other, the less typical of which 

 has a campanulate obtuse pileus, and is of a darker tint when 

 dry. 



Pileus at first ovate or hemispherical, very obtuse, fawn- 

 coloured, minutely tomentose and warty, then expanded, sub- 

 campanulate, about 2 inches across, dotted with minute brown 

 scales; stem at first fusiform, then nearly equal, of the same 



