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New Fungi. 



Coprinus aquatilis Peck. Massee's ' Revision of the genus 

 Coprinus,' Annals of Bot. X. (June 1896), pp. 123-184. 



Among decaying leaves of Luzula sylvatica, moss, twigs, etc., 

 in swamp, High Lee Clough, Norland, Halifax, June 1900. 



Only previously recorded for New York State. 

 Hygrophorus melizeus Fries. Epicr. , 321. Figs. 5-7 on plate. 



Entirely pale straw-colour both outside and inside ; gills with 

 sometimes just a tinge of primrose. Pileus convex, becoming 

 more or less depressed as it expands, even, viscid, flesh thin, 5-7 

 cm. across ; gills rather deeply decurrent, thin, distant ; stem, 

 6-8 cm. long-, i cm. thick at the apex, narrowed downwards, 

 apex with minute white squamules, stuffed ; spores elliptic- 

 oblong, apiculate, creamy-white, 10 x 5 /x. 



Allied to H. ehurneits, for old discoloured specimens of which 

 it has probably been mistaken in this country. Differs in the 

 pale tinge of straw-colour of pileus, gills, and stem, and also of 

 the flesh. Smell weak but pleasant. 



Previous distribution, France, Switzerland, and Sweden. 



On the ground among g'rass, near Rievaulx Abbey, Helmsley, 

 Y.N.U. Fungus Foray, October 1903. (Coll. Messrs. Philip and 

 Sheppard.) 



Marasmius lagopinus Post, in Fries' Hym. Eur., 474. Figs. 

 8-10 on plate. 



Pileus convex, then plane, even glabrous, pallid, 1-2 cm. 

 across, flesh thin, gills adnate, slightly ventricose, straw-colour, 

 somewhat crowded; stem short, i-i'5 cm., slender, equal, 

 whitish, the lower half with white spreading squamules, upper 

 half glabrous ; spores pale straw colour, subglobose, 3 x 2 /x. 



Gregarious, almost crowded. Springing from cracks on a 

 wounded portion of a fallen branch, without any external 

 appearance of mycelium, a habitat exactly similar to that 

 described by Fries. Probably passed over as a form of J/, 

 ramealis, which differs in smaller size, depressed rugulose 

 pileus, and rufescent, furfuraceous base of stem. Previously 

 only recorded from Sweden. 



Duncombe Park, Helmsley. Y.N.U. Fungus Foray, October 

 1903. (Coll. Messrs. Needham and Thvraites. ) 

 Clavaria tenerrima Mass. et Crossl. (sp. nov.). 



Gregaria subVenax farcta Candida ; clavis simplicibus cylin- 

 dricis flexuosis apico subattenuatis ; sporis In alinis subglobosis 

 apiculatis \ orriK'osis, S-c) //. 



Sporophoros cniu-cl}- shining white, gregarious but quite" 

 distinct al the base, cylindrical, smooth, apex slightly attenuated 



Natii ralist. 



