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which appears to have been noticed only by Bolton, occurred abund- 
antly at King's Cliffe, October 1835. The gills are sprinkled over 
with short purple hairs, like those on the lip of Orchis fusca, which 
on the edge are arranged in fascicles. Smell strong, somewhat like 
that of Ag. sulphureus. Sporidia white. Habit approaching to that 
of some species of the subgenus Psathyra. 
3. Ag. rubidus, n. s. Amongst mosses on the mould of a pot con- 
taining a foreign Polypodium, consisting of peat and sand, in a hot- 
house at Milton, Northamptonshire, March 1, 1836. 
Pileus ^ inch broad, convex at length umbilicate, the margin 
sometimes slightly wavy membranaceous, finely silky white or gray- 
ish, acquiring at length a pale ruddy tinge. Gills broad, ventricose, 
adnate, with frequently a more or less distinct tooth, in consequence 
of which they are sometimes at length decurrent, rose-coloured, as 
far as I could observe not clothed with any spiculae. Sporidia rose- 
coloured, elliptic. Stem 1^-2 lines high, thickest above, white or 
grayish like the pileus, quite solid, minutely silky. Smell like that 
of new flour. 
This species belongs clearly to the subgenus Eccilia of the second 
series Hyporhodius, and is quite distinct from all described by Fries. 
Tab. II. fig. 2. a. Ag. rubidus, nat. size ; b. vertical section of three states, 
do ; c. Sporidia highly magnified. 
* 4. Ag. glaucopus, Schaeff. Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 224 The 
plate of Sowerby referred to by Persoon and Fries for this species, 
belongs rather to Ag. callochrous, a, and in consequence the descrip- 
tion given in the English Flora, which was made with an especial 
view to it. The true plant, which occurred at King's Cliffe, at the 
end of October 1835, is one of the finest of our Agarics. 
*5. Ag. speciosus, Fr. Obs. 2. p. 1 Since the account of this 
species was given in the Addenda to the English Flora, I have seen 
Letellier's Supplement to Bulliard, which contains at t. 623. a, 
(under Ag. volvaceus,) and t. 645, figures of Ag. gloiocephalus, D. C. 
His figure accords precisely with the plant I have in view, except 
that there is no indication in it of villosity on the stem and volva, 
but, as it appears to me, there are no characters to distinguish it 
from Ag. speciosus. The volva is by no means obliterated, the stem 
not equal, but always more or less attenuated upwards, and some- 
times even bulbous, and one of the specimens is almost four inches 
broad. The peculiar manner in which the volva passes under the 
stem is also the same. 
6. Polyporus cinctus, n, s. On a very rotten plank from an old 
house, King's Cliffe. 
