Descriptions of New Species of Fungi. 



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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI, COL- 

 LECTED IN THE VICINITY OF CINCINNATI. 

 By Thomas G. Lea, and Described by Rev. M. J. Berkeley. 

 [Republished from "A Catalogue of the Plants of Cincinnati, by Thos. G. Lea."*] 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) ochro-purpureus, n. sp. — On cla}'e} r soil, in 

 woodlands. Cincinnati, Aug. 29,1843; Waynesville, Aug. 31, 1844. 



Pileo subhemispherico, demum depresso, carnoso, compacto, lento, 

 pallide alutaceo, leviter purpurascenti ; cute facile secernibili ; mar- 

 gine inflexo primum tomentoso; mycelio albo ; stipite pallidiore, hie 

 illic purpurascente, medio tumido ; lamellis crassis, non connexis, 

 purpureis, postice latioribus, decurrentibus. — Berk, in Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot., vol. iv., p. 290. 



Pileus two inches across ; stem two inches and a half high, three quar- 

 ters of an inch thick in the center, solid, above deflexo squamose, occa- 

 sionally equal. This species resembles in most points A. tyrianthimis ; 

 but the gills are thick and distinct, resembling those of A. laccatus, 

 and the mycelium (at least in the dry plant) is white. The spores 

 when dry, are of a palish }'ellow, but Mr. Lea in his notes describes 

 them from the plant when gathered as white. 



Agariccs (Collybia) lachxophyllus, n. sp. — On pieces of rotten 

 wood amongst dead leaves in woods, Waynesville, Sept. 5, 1844. 



Pileo carnosulo, conico-hemispherico, fulvo-spadiceo, velutino; 

 stipite cavo, deorsum fusco-purpureo, nitido, sursum pallido sub- 

 velutino; lamellis liberis, fulvo-velutinis. 



More or less tufted. Pileus three quarters of an inch across, sub- 

 carnose, conico-hemispherical, of a rich tawny brown, clothed with 

 short, velvety pubescence, much wrinkled when dry. Stem two inches 

 high, one line or more thick, tough, hollow, brownish-purple below, 

 shaded off into white above, and clothed with scattered short pubes- 



* The "Catalogue of Plants," collected in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, during the 

 years 18.34-44, by Thomas G. Lea (Cincinnati, 1849), contains a list of Fungi, with notes and 

 descriptions of the new species by the eminent English mycologist, Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 to whom Mr Lea submitted his collections. These notes and descriptions are of great 

 local value, and as the pamphlet is quite inaccessible to the student, by reason of its great 

 rarity, the publishing committee of the society has kindly consented to reproduce them. 

 The bare list was reprinted in Joseph F. James' Catalogue of the Flowering Plants, Ferns 

 and Fungi of Cincinnati {Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist.. No. 2, vol. 1). Students will be glad 

 to know that Prof. A. P. Morgan, lately of Dayton, but now of our city, has in hand a 

 synopsis of the Hymenomycetes of the Miami Valley, which he hopes to have ready during 

 the coming year.— [Davis L. James. 



