Report of tee Botanist. 63 



CoETiNARius (Hygrocybe) pulcher Peck. 



Pileus conical, tlien broadly convex, umbonate, often irregular, 

 hygrophanons, ochraceoiis, shining and sometimes striatulate, 

 when moist, pale-ochraceons when dry ; lamellae subdistant, broad, 

 emarginate, uneven on the edge, ochraceoiis ; stem equal, solid, 

 subflexuous, silky-fibrillose, whitish or pale ochraceous; spores 

 .00033 X .0002 in. 



Plant gregarious, 2' high, pileus 1-1.5' broad, stem l"-2" thick. 



Ground in wood. Kew Scotland. October. 



Lepista cinerascens Bull. 



Ground in pine woods. Croghan. September. 



Our specimens were scarcely mature and the margin of the 

 pileus shows no striations and therefore they are referred to this 

 species with some hesitation. ' 



Paxillus strigosus Peck. 



Pileus convex, or expanded, dry, brittle, strigose with scattered 

 stiff hairs, whitish ; lamellae close, narrow, subdecurrent, whitish, 

 then pale cinnamon color, some of them forked ; stem equal, solid, 

 pruinose, concolorous ; spores brownish-ochre, subglobose, .00018 

 in. in diameter. 



Plant 2' high, pileus 1-1.5' broad, stem 1"-1.5" thick. 



Ground among fallen leaves in woods. Croghan. September. 



The young plant might readily be taken for a species of Clito- 

 cybe. It is at best an aberrant species, midway between Lepista 

 and Paxillus, differing from the former in its highly colored spores 

 and from the latter in its distinct, not anastomosing, lamellae. 

 Owing to the very brittle character of the pileus the lamellae are 

 not easily separated from it. The hairs of the pileus are either 

 erect or appressed. 



Hygrophorus purus n. sj). 



Pure white and very fragile ; pileus at first conical, then 

 expanded and cupulate from the recurving of the thin margin, 

 very viscid, often irregular ; lamellae subdistant, broad, ventricose, 

 emarginate, with a slight decurrent tooth ; stem smooth, subflexu- 

 ous, hollow, very viscid ; spores .0003 x .0002 in. 



Plant 3'-6' high, pileus l'-2' broad, stem 2"-3" thick. 



Ground in open woods. Croghan. September. 

 It is related' to H. ceraceus^ but besides its different color it is 

 much more fragile. 



