5D8 Notices of British Fungi. 



red when rubbed, but clothed with meal, red within, stuffed with 

 white silky filaments, penetrating into the soil by means of a few 

 white branched fibres ; smell strong, like that of Ag. cristatus. The 

 meal, under a strong magnifier, consists of globular vesicles, which 

 are sometimes shortly pedicellate. 



Tab. XV. Fig. 1. a. a. A. haematopbyllus* nat. size ; b. b. vertical section ; 

 c. meal highly magnified. 



39. Ag. erubescens, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 32 — Amongst beech 

 leaves in a wood near King's Cliffe, Oct. 7, 1836. Ag. carnosus, 

 Curt. Sow., formerly referred by Fries to this species, is now con- 

 sidered by him Ag. maculatus, Alb. and Schw. At the time the 

 English Flora was published I had not met with it, but a single 

 specimen which occurred lately in one of the larch plantations in 

 Sherwood Forest was sufficient to show that it was at least not a 

 true Limacium, though I am not satisfied that it is so nearly re- 

 lated to Ag. fusipes as Fries (El. i. p. 17,) supposes. The present 

 autumn has also furnished me with a sample of the real Ag. erubes- 

 cens ; and though, in some respects, similar to Ag. carnosus, it is 

 at once distinguishable by its more robust habit, but especially by 

 its possessing the characters of the subgenus Limacium. 



Pileus 2A inches broad, plano-convex, fleshy, compact, white ting- 

 ed with rufous, slightly viscid ; margin downy involute. Gills round- 

 ed behind, adnexed, rather distant. Stem 2-3 inches high, ^ 

 inch thick, curved at the base, thickest above, stout, firm, fleshy, 

 mottled, within squamuloso-fibrillose ; subglanduloso-squamulose 

 within the pileus, which it resembles in colour. Smell scarcely 

 any. 



*40. Ag. cossus, Sow. t. 121 — The difficulties respecting this 

 species are stated in the English Flora. Having lately found Ag. 

 nitens, Sow., which is also a true Limacium, I am enabled to state 

 positively that it is quite distinct from the present species. Though 

 exactly resembling Ag. cossus in outward form, it is quite destitute 

 of its disagreeable smell ; and when dried, the white turns to a dark 

 foxy brown, as indeed is represented in Sowerby's plate. It still 

 remains to be proved whether Ag. eburneus of continental authors 

 be the same with Sowerby's Ag. nitens. I can find no account of 

 such a marked change of colour taking place. 



* 41. Ag. fusco-purpureus, Pers. Ic. et Descr. t. 4. f. 1-3. — The 



* The specimens from which the figures were taken were scarcely so dark as 

 the usual state of the species, in consequence of having been slightly touched 

 by frost. 



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