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VIII. Notes on British Fungi. By FREDERICK Currey, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Plate XXV.) 
Read June 18th, 1863. 
THE object of the present paper is to give a description of some new Fungi, and to 
note the occurrence in this country of certain species not hitherto recorded as British. 
1 have added also some observations upon a few of our indigenous species, which I think 
may be of interest to mycologists. Should the present communication prove acceptable 
to the Society, I shall hope to be able to follow it up from time to time with others of a 
similar nature. 
AMANITA SPISSA, Fr. 
A fine Amanite occurred last autumn in the woods adjoining Combe Place, near 
Lewes. It is apparently identical with A. spissa, Fr. (Epicrisis, p. 9), but I feel some- 
what uncertain about it. The following is a full description :— 
Pileus 3 inches broad, umber, with a greyish tinge, dry when I found it, but evidently 
had been viscid, as it had dead leaves firmly adhering to it, smooth, with a few patches 
of the volva adhering, not in the form of warts, but irregular; epidermis tough and 
clammy, easily peeling off, margin not striate. Gills very broad, more than $ inch, ven- 
tricose and adnexed. Stem 3 inches high, 1 inch being buried in the ground, swollen 
and bulbous at the surface of the ground, narrower above and below. Ring deflexed 
and striate, as in .ل‎ rubescens. Sporidia white, irregularly pear-shaped or balloon- 
shaped, with a short stalk, colourless, about 0:0005 inch long. 
The nearest figure which I can find is Krombholz, pl. 1. fig.7 (Ag. cinereus), but my 
plant is larger and not so dark in colour. Fries’s Amanita spissa is Krombholz's 
Ag. cinereus. 
LENTINUS FIMBRIATUS, n. $. 
Pileus subdimidiate, subcoriaceous, thin (not fleshy), depressed, sometimes very much 
80, and almost cyathiform, 3 to 1 inch wide, fawn-coloured, covered with floccose scales 
of a darker brown; margin slightly involute, almost strigose; stem lateral, from } to 
} inch long, rough with somewhat reflexed scales of the same colour as the gills, or 
rather paler ; gills pale brown, irregularly serrate and lacerated at the margin, descending, 
but not decurrent. In young specimens a delicate white fimbriate collar or fringe (the 
remains of the ruptured veil) separates the gills from the stem. Pilei. two or three 
together, one above another in an imbricated manner. Some of the pilei were tinged 
here and there with pink stains, but whether accidental or not I cannot say. 
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