418 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



and consequently ringless, hence, to be consistent, the 

 genus Chitonia of Fries, including both ringed and ringless 

 species, must be divided into two genera, Chitonia including 

 the species without a ring, and the species furnished with a 

 ring included in a genus that might be called Chitoniella. 



Chitonia rubriceps. Cke. and Mass. (fig. 4, p. 351.) 

 Pileus |-1 in. across, rather fleshy, campanulate then 

 expanded, umbonate, often becoming depressed round the 

 umbo, margin arched, slightly striate, even, reddish-brown ; 

 gills free, narrow, rather crowded, purplish-brown, remain- 

 ing dry; stem about 3 in. long, 1J-2 lines thick, equal, 

 smooth, even, paler than the pileus, hollow, volva large, free, 

 whitish, torn irregularly at the margin; spores elliptic- 

 fusiform, 12 x 6 p. 



Chitonia rubriceps, Cooke and Massee, Grevillea, vol. xv., 

 p. 57 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 192 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 967. 



On soil in the Aroid house, Kew Gardens. An exotic 

 species, probably introduced in the soil along with some 

 foreign plant. 



OMITTED SPECIES. 



Peniophora Crosslandi. Mass. 



Effused, thin, soft when moist, hymenium minutely setu- 

 lose, pale grey, with a slight ochraceous tinge when dry ; 

 margin determinate, slightly raised, the whole fungus 

 separable from the matrix when dry ; cystidia numerous, 

 the portion projecting above the hymenium conical, 3040 x 

 10 p., colourless and studded with particles of lime; spores 

 elliptical, 6 X 3 ft. 



On bark and wood of fir. 



Resembling P. gigantea in being soft and fleshy when 

 growing, and cartilaginous and separable from the matrix 

 when dry, but diifering in the shorter cystidia and smaller 

 spores. Patches 1-2 in. across. Halifax. (C. Crossland.) 



Guepinia obliqua. Mass. 



Gregarious, about 2 lines high, hymenium slightly con- 

 cave, oblique, passing downwards into a very short stem-like 



