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Analogous with the genus Lepiota in the Leucospore, but dis- 
tinguished by the green gills and spores. 
Chlorophyllum erue mds Massee (sp. nov.). Pileus carnosus, 
ee ee” mbon atus, cute in squamas (majores 
eccles laceratus, 15-20 em. latus; caro a stipite discreta, 
‘5 cm. crassa. Lamellæ , angusto, albæ, dein virides, a 
stipite Sap tes. Stipes 18-25 em. altus, cylindraceus, basi sub- 
bulbosus, levis, subeavus, annulo uie. nen persistente. Spore 
ovate, mius obtusatee, leves, 7-8 x 5 u, coacervate olivaceo- 
rentes. 
meme land pastures, os 6166. 
Edible mushroom, all white, gills oe livid green on the 
second day, 6-8 inches in diameter r (Jen à 
Allied to the North American sies es "6. Morgani, Massee, 
(Agaricus pec Peck.) but distinguished by the white pileus 
and smaller spores. The only other species known, C. Molybdites, 
ie isa boe of Brazil. 
Schulzeria Eyrei, Massee, (in Grevillea xxii. (1894) p. 38, t. 185, 
g. 1.) belongs to this group and forms a second genus, for 
which the name Chlorospora is proposed. It is cmc as 
follows: Hi; ynenophovum a stipite diseretum, velo universali 
cum epidermide pilei concreto. Stipes bred et aniiula- carens. 
ded liberæ. € (e ellipsoidete, m 
Distinguished from pied ‘ophyllun By the absence of a 
permane dn ring on the The Gale species is C. Hyret, 
Massee, a native of the New Forat 
DCX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. HAROLD BUCHAN LLOYD, a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Gardens, and formerly in the employ of the 
Karl of Sefton at Croxteth Park, Liverpool, has been appointed, 
on the recommendation of Kew, by the Secretary of State for 
Foreign Affairs, Assistant Curator of the Botanic Gardens at 
Old Calabar, in the Niger Protectorate, in succession to Mr. 
i promoted to the post of Curator. Mr. Lloyd left Kew 
in May 
Mr. Harry HOLLEY, a member of the gardening staff a 
Kew, has been appointed Assistant in the Municipal Gardens at 
Cape Town. He left for South Africa in May. 
Botanical Magazine for May.—The plates of four of the plants 
described could not be issued till this month, owing to a fire at 
the lithographers. Amomum hemisphericum, the plate of which 
has appeared, is quite new to cultivation. It is a native of Java, 
and roots were sent to e w by H. N. Ridley, Esq., M.A., Director 
of the Gardens and Forest DS ERRBU Straits Settlements. 
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