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equal, at length swollen in the centre, and attenuated at the base, 

 4 inches high, 2 inches thick in the centre, fibrillose and areo- 

 late below, nearly smooth within the pileus, solid, stuffed with 

 delicate threads ; ring thick, very large, deflexed, broken here 

 and there, areolato-verrucose beneath ; gills \ inch broad, free, 

 of a brownish flesh- colour. 



Flesh of pileus f inch thick in centre, turning red when cut. 

 Taste and smell excellent. 



Nearly allied to A. augustus, but differing in colour, its 

 stuffed areolate stem, warty margin, &c. It is one of the most 

 magnificent fungi. The specific name refers to the district 

 bordering on the river Elwy, in which it was so magnificently 

 developed. 



*A. (Hypholoma) velutinus, Pers. Syn. p. 409 ; b. leio- 

 cephalus. 



Pileus hygrophanous, rugged, smooth except at the margin, 

 where it is fibrillose, pallid as is the stem, whose apex is farinose. 



On old stumps at Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, Sept.' 2, 1863. 



Densely csespitose ; much smaller than the common form, but 

 apparently a mere variety, though a very striking one, from its 

 smooth but very rugged disk. 



1010. A. (Psathyra) pennatus, Fr. Syst. vol. i. p. 297. 



On naked soil in gardens. King's Cliffe occasionally, but 

 never in any abundance. 



1011. Coprinus similis,n. s. Pileo ovato-campanulato lineato- 

 striato pallido, centro obscuriore hygrophano, verrucis acutis 

 apicefuscis secedentibus vestito; stipite cavo, albo, basi latiore ; 

 lamellis adnatis, postice attenuatis, sublinearibus, prope mar- 

 ginem brunneolis. 



On trunks of dead trees. Bodelwyddan, Flintshire, Sept. 2, 

 1862. 



Resembling C. apht horns, but differing in the striate pileus, &c. 



1012. Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) fulgens, Fr. Ep. p. 267. 

 Bathford Down, Sept. 1863, C. E. Broome. 



1013. Hygrophorus arbustivus, Fr. Ep. p. 323. 

 Wiltshire, Dec. 1861, C. E. Broome. 



1014. Russula chamcdeontina, Fr. Obs. i. no. 89. 

 In woods, King's Cliffe, Sept. 30, 1863. 



1015. Lactarius pubescens, Schrad. Spic. p. 122. Var. mar- 

 gine tomentoso. 



In pastures. Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Aug. 1862. 



Pileus 2 inches across, depressed, clothed with fine matted 

 down; margin involute, tomentose; flesh firm; stem nearly 

 equal, 1^ inch high, about 5 lines thick, smooth, pale flesh- 

 coloured ; gills thin, scarcely branched ; milk extremely acrid, 

 white, not changeable ; odour pungent. 



