MAGAZINE 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



I — Notices of British Fungi. By Rev. M.J. Berkeley, M. A., 

 F. L. S. {Continued from page 42.) 



No. II. 



38. Agaricus hcematophyllus, n. s. Berk. Brit. Fung. Fasc 3, 

 ined — On peat earth abundantly, in a north border, and amongst 

 rock-work (in company with Ag. cristatus ;) more sparingly and 

 smaller in a hot-house, where it sometimes sprang from the wall 

 itself, at Milton, Northamptonshire, where it was pointed out to me 

 by Mr J. Henderson, at the beginning of October last. The same 

 gentleman has since found it growing amongst loam in melon pits, 

 and a single specimen has occurred to myself at Lambley Notts on 

 a steep declivity, on loamy clay. The nearest affinity of this curious 

 species, which belongs to the subgenus Lepiota, is with Ag. cristatus 

 and Ag. meleagris, from which it differs essentially in colour, and 

 in its approximate gills. 



Solitary, or gregarious ; often fasciculate. Pileus 1-1 £ inch 

 broad, thin, brittle, chocolate or olive-brown, clothed with minute 

 raised scales, and copious meal of the same colour ; flesh pale, not 

 changing when cut. Gills varying greatly in breadth, rounded be- 

 hind, quite free, but approximate, at first of a fine red like that of 

 the gills of the best mushrooms, at length deep chocolate. Ring 

 broad, fugacious, attached at first in ragged triangular laciniae to the 

 edge of the pileus, mealy externally like the pileus, of a beautiful 

 pink within. Stem 1| inch high, 1-2 lines or more thick, chocolate 



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