Messrs. Berkeley and Broome.on British Fungi. 17 
been already furnished by the genus Phalansterium, Cien- 
kowski, as reported by Prof. Clark*; but a reference to the 
original description and illustration in Schultze’s ‘ Archiv,’ 
Bd. vi. 8. 4, 1870, has elicited that this colony form is com- 
posed of the more simple flagellate Holostomatous monads, and 
not of the collar-bearing or Discostomatous varieties. Should 
this missing link be discovered, it will, while closely related 
to and forming a natural group of the true sponges, occupy the 
same relation towards the Gymnozoidal or free and indepen- 
dent Discostomatous types as the social and slime-immersed 
genus Ophrydium does to Vorticella, Vaginicola, or other 
naked and solitary representatives of the higher ciliate order 
of the Infusoria. 
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II.—Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. BerKe- 
LEY, M.A., F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq., F.L.S. 
[Continued from ser. 4. vol. xvii. p. 145.] 
[Plates I. & IV.) 
1631. Agaricus (Amanita) magnificus, Fr. Hym. Eur. 
p- 25; Fl. Dan. t. 2146. 
In fir-woods. Glamis, Rev. J. Stevenson, no. 707. 
Our plant differs from the figure quoted above in having a 
bulbous base. 
Pileus campanulate, even, with scattered mealy patches ; 
stem attenuated upwards, transversely scaly. Whole plant 
dark liver-red, with the exception of the white adnexed gills. 
Allied to A. rubescens, but quite distinct, though variable. 
Fl. Dan. tab. 2148. fig. 2, which is referred by Fries to this 
species, has, like the agaric before us, a bulbous base. The 
wartless variety of A. muscarius occurred last autumn more 
than once at Coed Coch, and was very beautiful. 
1632. A. (Lepiota) rhacodes, subsp. puellaris, Fr. Hym. 
Eur. p. 29. 
In woods. Coed Coch. Not uncommon. 
1633. A. (Lepiota) biornatus, B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc. 
x1. p. 502. 
In great abundance in a melon-frame, Arthingworth, 
* Silliman’s ‘American Journal,’ Feb. 1871; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
March 1871. 
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