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ever, in the colour of the gills and in other points, but above all 

 in its stature, which is strikingly greater than that of any other 

 state of the species that I have seen. The surface of the pileus, 

 when dry, looks like dark chamois leather ; the texture of the 

 stem is different from that of the pileus, but the mycologists to 

 whom I have submitted specimens agree that it is a form of 

 T. kumile. It has maintained these characters without variation 

 for five or six years, appearing continually on the same spot. 

 Two or three specimens occasionally grew together, but for the 

 most part they occurred singly, unlike the typical form. 



This variety bears a resemblance at first sight to Collyhia 

 radicata. It is probable that several species, worthy of being 

 distinguished, are included under the idea of T. humile, and that 

 this is one of them. 



135. Agaeicus campestris var. fulvastee Vittadini. 

 Pileus convex, 2-21 inches broad, |- inch or more thick, golden 



yellow, somewhat scaly ; flesh very solid, nearly pure white, 

 turning brown when cut or broken. Stipe solid, 2^ x 1 inch, 

 whitish above, yellow below, stained everywhere raore or less with 

 brown ; ring superior, deflexed. GiUs numerous, free ; spores 

 oval, purple, 8x6//. 



Several specimens of this beautiful variety in a cellar at 

 Sparkhill (Ws.), April; also found by Mr. C. W. Lowe at the 

 Botanic Gardens, Edgbaston (Wk.). The brown colour of the 

 broken flesh tends rather towards a dull red. 



136. Inocybe peoximella Karst. Massee, Annals Bot. xviii. 

 466 ; Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. iii. 44, pi. 2. 



In June, 1910, Professor A. H. E. Buller found, in a field at 

 King's Heath (Ws.), a number of specimens of an Inocybe with 

 nodulose spores resembling those of I. asterospora. But the fungi 

 were much smaller and paler than that species, which is not un- 

 common in the woods round Birmingham ; they were also quite 

 devoid of that thickening of the base of the stem (with a distinct 

 pale margin) which is so characteristic of I. asterosj^ora. I am 

 inclined to consider them as belonging to I. proximella, with the 

 description of which they agreed almost exactly, especially in the 

 ohloiuj (not subglobose) nodulose spores. 



137. Steeeum puepueeum var. elegans (Purton) = var. atro- 

 marginatum W. G. Sm., Brit. Basidiom. p. 405. 



In Burton's Midland Flora, vol. ii. (1817), p. 682, there is a 

 description of a species of Stereum, accompanied by a figure 

 (pi. vi.). It is called '' Auricularia elegans," and is now identified 

 as representing a remarkably neat form of Siereum ]j2irpureu7n. 

 1 have had the pleasure of meeting with a specimen almost iden- 

 tical with Purton's figure, at Studley Castle. It had a whitish 

 pileus, bordered just within the margin with a dark, almost black, 

 line, or in some cases two. The hymenium was of a purplish 

 brown. 



138. PucciNiA Fergussoni B. & Br. Plowr. Uredinese, p. 207. 

 Last summer there occurred on Viola pahistris in the marsh 



