BOTANY 



FRESHWATER ALGM 



The plants belonging to this group have been very imperfectly 

 recorded. Mr. Lees, in his Botany of the Malvern Hills, has a list of only 

 about twenty — mostly common species. The following list is all he 

 records, and the nomenclature is that of Gray's Handbook, 1864 : — 



Tetraspora lubrica, Callithamnion aureus, C. barbatus, Batrachospermum 

 atrum, Lemanea torulosa, L. fluviatilis, Cladophora fracta, Chcetophora rivu- 

 laris, C. capillaris, 'Enteromorpha intestinalis, Prasiola calophylla, Lyngbya 

 muralis, Ulva crispa, U. bullosa, Osa'llatoria limosa, Strigonema atrovirens, 

 Nostoc commune, N. muscorum, Botrydina vulgaris, Palme I la cruenta. 



In the Transactions of the Worcestershire Naturalists' Club, 1897—99, 

 p. 3, the occurrence of Tetraspora explanata, Agardh., at Lower Wick, 

 is recorded for the first time in Britain. 



The Desmidiacece and Diatomacece appear to have been totally neg- 

 lected. 



FUNGI 



The fungus flora of the county has been investigated very little owing 

 to few botanists taking up the study of mycology. Notwithstanding this 

 neglect, and the meagre dimensions of the county list, a few noteworthy 

 plants have been gathered in Worcestershire. Amongst these we may 

 enumerate Amanita aureola, Habberley Valley, Lepiota submarasmioides, near 

 the Valley of the White-leaved Oak, Lepiota leucothites, near the Holly 

 Bush Pass, Tricholoma glaucocanum, Wyre Forest, and Coprinus squamosus, 

 Hanbury Park. All of these were recorded as British for the first time, 

 whilst the following species were entirely new and unknown before, 

 Collybia veluticeps, Claines, Flammula rubicundula, Wyre Forest, and Coprinus 

 roseotinctus. Ash Plantation, Temple Laughern. 



The authority for the following list is Cooke's Handbook of British 

 Fungi, with emendations from Fries, Lister, Massee, Plowright, Grevillea, 

 and the Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 



BASIDIOMYCETES 



Hymenomycetes 



I. Agariclnece 



Amanita phalloides, Fr. 



var. verna, Bull. 



— mappa, Fr. 



— pantherina, D.C. 



— muscaria, Fr. 



— aureola, Kalch. 



— rubescens, Fr. 



— spissa, Fr. 



— nitida, Fr. 

 Amanitopsis vaginata, Roze. 



— strangulata, Fr. 



— adnata, W. G. Smith 



Lepiota procera, Scop. 



— permixta, Barla. 



— rachodes, Vitt. 



var. puellaris, Fr. 



— prominens, Viv. 



— excoriata, SchasfF. 



— acutesquamosa, Weinm. 



— Friesii, Lasch. 



— Badhami, Berk. 



— clypeolaria, Bull. 



— submarasmioides, Speg. 



— felina, Pers. 



— metulsspora, B. & Br. 



— cristata, A. & S. 



— erminea, Fr. 



— holosericea, Fr. 



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Lepiota leucothites, Vitt. 



— cepasstipes, Sow. 



— carcharias, Pers. 



— granulosa, Batsch. 



— amianthina, Scop. 



— illinita, Fr. 

 Armillaria mellea, Vahl. 

 Tricholoma sejunctum, Sow. 



— spermaticum, Fr. 



— resplendens, Fr. 



— acerbum, Bull. 



— flavo-brunneum, Fr. 



— albo-brunneum, Pers. 



— ustale, Fr. 



— rutilans, SchaefF. 



— columbetta, Fr. 



