Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 261 



subdistantibus subrubello-umbrinis. About the roots of beech- 

 trees, Rushton, Norths., Aug. 1848. 



Fasciculate or gregarious. Pilei 1^-2 inches across, hemi- 

 spherical, at length expanded, quite smooth and even, at first 

 clothed with a viscid pellicle, at length slightly wrinkled, some- 

 what fleshy, dark brown, paler when dry. Stem 2£ inches high, 

 \ of an inch thick, incrassated below, umber, dark brown at the 

 base, fibrillose, stuffed, at length hollow. Ring near the top, per- 

 sistent, mostly deflexed; stem above the ring paler, fibrillose. 

 Gills umber with a rosy tinge, adnate, with a decurrent tooth, 

 rather distant. Spores brownish. 



Allied to Ag. pudicus, Ag. cylindraceus and Ag. JEgeritdj but 

 distinct in its very dark head, and umber adnato-decurrent gills. 

 It approaches very near to Pauleys mulberry-tree Agaric, 1. 144. 

 It is certainly not described by Fries. The taste is like that of 

 the common mushroom with a slight acidity. 



329. Ag. (Pholiota) mesodactylius, n. s. Pileo conico-expanso 

 obtuso pallide fulvo submembranaceo ; margine striato ; stipite 

 gracili glabriusculo fistuloso albo ; annulo centrali integerrimo ; 

 lamellis ascendentibus rotundato-affixis pallide fulvis. On the 

 ground in a moist wooded dell, Woodborough, Notts. 



Pileus 1-J. inch broad, obtusely conical with the margin ex- 

 panded, hygrophanous, pale tawny, slightly fleshy in the centre ; 

 margin striate. Stem flexuous, 2£ inches high, 2 lines thick, 

 white, nearly smooth above and below the ring, sometimes show- 

 ing a vinous stain where bruised, nearly equal, fistulose. Ring 

 central, expanded, quite entire, deeply striate within. Gills mo- 

 derately broad, slightly ventricose, ascending, affixed. 



Allied to A. Mycenoides, from which it differs in its pure white 

 stem, without the ferruginous hue of that species. The entire 

 white striate ring is very remarkable. 



Plate IX. fig. 1. Jgaricus mesodactylius and section of the natural 



size. 



*330. Ag. flavidus, Schaeff. t, 35. Woods near Dundee, Mr. 

 W. Gardiner, no. 46. 



*331. Ag. horizontal, Bull. t. 324. 



This species, which belongs to the section Naucoria, occurs at 

 Burghley Park near Stamford. Sowerby^s plant is certainly dif- 

 ferent, and, as appears from his herbarium, merely a state of Ag. 

 corticola. 



332. Hygrophorus russo-coriaceus, Berk, and Miller MSS. 

 Odorus, pileo viscidulo eburneo ; stipite tenui glabro ; lamellis 

 paucis latis candidis, decurrentibus. In exposed pastures, Walker- 

 ingham, Notts, Oct. to Dec, Rev. T. K. Miller. 



Pileus about \ an inch in diameter, convex, fleshy, slightly 



