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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
[We are indebted to our correspondent Mr. W. G. Smith for the 
following list of the more interesting species of Fungi amongst those 
exhibited at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, or collected 
by the Woolhope Club, referred to in another page of this Journal. ] 
Agaricus (Amanita) muscarius, L. This species is usually crimson ; 
a Snes and pure yellow variety was exhibited. 
A. (Lepiota) holosericeus, Fr. A. single specimen from Staplehurst, 
Kent, of this species, which has but once before been observed in this 
country. 
= (Lepiota) excoriatus, Schæf. 
A. (Tricholoma) nictitans, Fr., and A. (( Clitocybe) geotropus. Both 
sent by J. R. Reeves, Esq., F.R.S. 
A. (Tricholoma) jurtülegitna, Bull., and 4. (Tricholoma) sulfureus, 
Bull. Both in Dr. Bull’s collection. 
A, (Pleurotus) subpalmatus, Fr., Lentinus vulpinus, Fr., and Boletus 
impolitus, Fr. Sent by Mr. W. G. Smith, 
Polyporus giganteus, Fr., and P. radiatus, Fr. Exhibited by Dr. 
Bull. i 
Mr. J. Aubrey Clark, of Street, Somerset, sent two species of Hyd- 
num of great interest; one, H. zonatum, Fr., a rare fungus, and the other, 
H. nigrum, Fr., a species quite new to this country, a figure of which, 
with some other new hymenomycetous fungi, we hope to give in a future 
number, 
Dr. Bull also had specimens of Scleroderma Bovista, Fr. Mr. 
Reeves exhibited an Llaphomyces, with the parasite, Cordiceps ophio- 
glossoides, Fr., in the process of development; and Lady Dorothy 
Nevill forwarded the base of a Hazel stem obtained from Rome, where 
it is used, after being charred, for producing Polyporus corylinus, 
auri. 
It may be added as somewhat curious that Agaricus rubescens, P., 
and Boletus edulis, Bull., two of our best known edible species, were 
not represented. 
A. (Tricholoma) sndiiuidho, Fr. Common in the woods round the. 
Wrekin, Shropshire. 
Lactarius torminosus, Fr. Common in Holme Lacy Park. 
Coprinus picaceus, Fr. One specimen in Holme Lacy Park. 
