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SOME WEST INDIAN FUNGI. 



By George Massee. 



(Plates 321, 322, 323.) 



The collection of Fungi here enumerated was made in St. Vin- 

 cent by Mr. W. R. Elliott, the cryptogamic collector of the West 

 India Natural History Exploration Committee. The high percentage 

 of novelties is to be attributed to the careful mode of preservation 

 of the specimens, accompanied by notes and sketches. The types 

 described are in "the British Museum Herbarium. 



Marasmius 



Pileo- 



convexo- piano, obtuso, sicco, levi, glabro, fusco-cinnamomeo; stipite 

 gracili pallidiore, e mycelio albo contexto oriundo ; lamellis adnatis, 

 distantibus, pallidis ; sporis subglobosis, circa 4 /* diam. 



Hab. Ad truncos putridos. Morne Cochon. 



Gregarious, brownish cinnamon; pileus about 1 line across; 

 stem 1 line long. The white, strigose, radiating mycelium appears 

 as a white tuft before the pileus developes, and at this stage looks like 

 some mould. Dry, tough, persistent. 



M. catervatus, sp.n. (Plate 322, figs. 16- 18). Gregarius ; pileo 

 e convexo vel cainpanulato expanso, membranaceo, e levi striato, 

 albido; stipite fistuloso, erecto, albo, levi, glabro, basi mycelio 

 incrassato ; lamellis denticulo decurrente adnatis, distantibus, albis 

 dein pallidis ; sporas ellipsoide*e.. 6 X 4 fi. 



Hab. In ligno emortuo, Richmond Valley. 



Pileus about J in. across ; stem t— § in. long, | line thick, equal. 

 The only known entirely white species with the margin of the pileus 



striate. 



Phurotus JJabellatus B. & Br. Petit Bordel. 



Lentiniis cubensis B. & C. Bucament Valley. 



L. dpariuB B. & C. Richmond Valley. 



L. cahescem Berk. Mount St. Andrew's. 



L. exilis Kl. Sandy Bay. 



SchizophyUum commune Fr. Bonhomme Valley; Government 



House. 



Hygrophorus bellus, sp. n. (Plate 321, figs. 1-4, 8). Pileo 



carnoso, convexo-plano, centro depressiusculo, glabro, l&viusculo, e 

 coccineo expallente; stipite cavo, glabro, sequali vel sursum in- 

 crassato, lutescente, coccinco-striato ; lamellis decurrentibus, dis- 

 tantibus, era is, flavis, aurantio-tinctis, interstitiis venosis; sporis 

 ellipsoideis, hyalinis, 18 x 10 /x. 



Hab. Ad terrain in silvis umbrosis, Nanaqua Valley (2300 ft.). 



Pileus 1^-2 in. across; stem about 2 in. long, 4 lines thick 

 above. Allied to H. Jurm otocephalus B. & C, but differs in the pileus 

 not being umbilicate, in having the interstices as well as the sides 

 of the gills veined, and more especially in the very large spores. 



Lenses applanatus Fr. Richmond Valley. 



Flammula hispida, sp. n. (Plate 323, figs. 31-33). Pileo car- 

 noso, umbilicato quandoque infundibnliformi, demura explanato, 



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