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CROSSLAND : NEW AND RARE FUNGI NEAR HALIFAX. 
day, a few specimens of a strange Coprinus were observed 
growing on a newly-formed road-embankment in the vicinity of 
the town, the surface of which had been layered by a thick 
stratum of street-sweepings. The plants were collected and 
carefully examined and compared with the descriptions and draw- 
ings of Coprinus oblectus Fr., with which they agreed in every 
detail. No others were seen until after the forty hours’ steady 
rainfall of the 14th and 15th. These were gathered and sub- 
mitted to Mr. Massee, Kew, who confirmed their identification, 
stating that there was no doubt whatever about the fungus being 
Bolton’s od/ectus. 
Higdoum fuligineo-album Schmidt, Myc. Heft. 1, p. 88. 
* Pileus 
about 3 in. across, flesh thick, firm, white, and like 
that of the stem, becoming reddish-brown when cut ; expanded, 
wavy or often excentric, rather silky, scaly at the diag whitish, 
scales darker, with faint tinge of pink near the margin; stem 
about 1$ in. (to 2) in. long, up to $ in. thick, solid, whitish, with 
rudimentary squamules; spines crowded, subulate or com 
pressed, about } in. long, white, then pale reddish-yellow 5 
spores globose, 5-6 pu einen? 
Specimens of this fungus were also forwarded to Mr. -“Massee, 
who considers it a very good addition to our Fungus Flora. 
I am indebted to him for the above description, and the 
following note :—‘ A fine species, distinguished by the white flesh 
becoming reddish when broken, ‘Taste pleasant, smell none, 
agreeing exactly with the description given by Schmidt, but 
differing widely from the figures by Fries. Icon., 3, upper 
figures.’ 
On the ground in pasture nigh a mixed wood. Hebden 
Bridge, Oct, 1892, James Needham and H. Pickles. 
Coprinus volvaceo-minimus sp. nov. ‘Pileus 3 lines broad, 
ovate, then campanulate, grey inclining to cinereous, disc darker, 
sprinkled with white squamules, membranaceous, striate, margin 
splitting and reflexed when old; gills almost free, narrow, 
attenuated at each end, becoming blackish-purple ; stem } to 1 In. 
long, less than a line thick, apex slightly swollen, fistulose, glabrous, 
hyaline, furnished at the bulbous base with a distinct sheathing 
persistent ring or collar, about half width of pileus, and which 
becomes reflexed ; spores blackish-purple, sub-globose, minutely 
apiculate, 6-7 p. 
On manure heap, Wellhead, Halifax, Oct. 1892. Readily 
distinguished from C. hendersonii by the ovate pileus, distinct 
basal volva and collar, and sub-globose and smaller pacer, 
turalisty 
