Notices of British Fungi. 5 1 1 



the centre, form striae on the pileus. The stem under a high mag- 

 nifier is often streaked with veins like the pileus. 



* 48. Ag. mitis, Pers. Syn. p. 481. — Abundantly on branches of 

 larch, lying on the ground in Sherwood Forest, October 1836. Up- 

 per stratum gelatinous. 



49. Ag. cyphelliformis, n. s.~ On the lower part of a dead plant 

 of Pentstemon ovatum. Milton, Northamptonshire, October 1836. 

 Apparently closely allied to no described species. Gregarious. Pi- 

 leus 2 lines or more broad and high, altogether stemless, cup-shap- 

 ed, hanging down, cinereous, very minutely strigose, especially at 

 the base ; margin paler, sprinkled with a few meal-like scales. Up- 

 per stratum gelatinous cinereous, beneath which the flesh is white 

 and very thin. Gills pure white, rather distant, the alternate ones 

 shorter, narrow, linear. 



Tab. XV. Fig. 3. a. Ag. cyphelliformis, nat. size ; b. b. do. magnified ; c. a 

 section, also magnified. 



* 49. Ag. cinnamomens. d. croceus, Fr. Syst. Myc. V. i. p, 229. 

 — In a beech wood, King's Cliffe. The figure of Batsch A. squa- 

 mulosus, f. 117, exactly represents my plant, which belongs to a va- 

 riety apparently not before observed in this countrv- 



50. Thelephora spadicea, Fr. El. V. i. p. 176. — On oak stumps 

 not uncommon in Northamptonshire. Easily known from every state 

 of Thel. purpurea by its becoming blood-stained when scratched. 

 I suspect that Sowerby had this species in his eye when illustrating 

 his Auricularia tabacina, if indeed his plant be not altogether iden- 

 tical with it. Sporidia copious, pure white, oblong-elliptic. 



* 51. Phlebia vaga, Fr. Syst. Myc, V. i. p. 428. El. i. p. 155._ 

 On a decaying fallen branch, King's ClifFe. It is also noted as Bri- 

 tish by Loudon. Nothing can be more exact than the description 

 given by Fries in his Elenchus. 



52. Clavaria juncea, Fr. var. (3 vivipara, Fr. Syst. Myc. V. i. 

 p 479. A. fistulosa, Bull. t. 463, H — Amongst oak leaves, Kino-' s 

 Cliffe. My plant is precisely what is figured by Bulliard, but I 

 cannot help suspecting that it is an unusually luxuriant form of Tv- 

 phula phacorhiza. 



53. Sclerotium Iruncorum, Fr. Syst. Myc. V. ii. p. 252 In vari- 

 ous places in Northamptonshire, amongst moss on old stumps, o-e_ 

 nerallv forming the matrix of Ag. tuberosus. 



54. Sphoeria cornicola, Fr. Syst. Myc. p. 530. On leaves of 



Cornus sanguinea, King's ClifFe. 



55. Asleroma vcronicae, Desm. n. 778. cum icone. — On leaves of 



