MAGAZINE 
OF 
ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
I Notices of British Fungi, By Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M. A., 
F. L. S. (Continued from page 42.) 
No. II. 
38. Agaricus hcematophyllus, n. s. Berk. Brit. Fung. Fasc. 3, 
ined On peat earth abundantly, in a north border, and amongst 
rock-work (in company with Ag. cristatus ;) more sparingly and 
smaller in a hot-house, where it sometimes sprang from the wall 
itself, at Milton, Northamptonshire, where it was pointed out to me 
by Mr J. Henderson, at the beginning of October last. The same 
gentleman has since found it growing amongst loam in melon pits, 
and a single specimen has occurred to myself at Lambley Notts on 
a steep declivity, on loamy clay. The nearest affinity of this curious 
species, which belongs to the subgenus Lepiota, is with Ag. cristatus 
and Ag. meleagris, from which it differs essentially in colour, and 
in its approximate gills. 
Solitary, or gregarious ; often fasciculate. Pileus 1-1 inch 
broad, thin, brittle, chocolate or olive-brown, clothed with minute 
raised scales, and copious meal of the same colour ; flesh pale, not 
changing when cut. Gills varying greatly in breadth, rounded be- 
hind, quite free, but approximate, at first of a fine red like that of 
the gills of the best mushrooms, at length deep chocolate. Ring 
broad, fugacious, attached at first in ragged triangular laciniae to the 
edge of the pileus, mealy externally like the pileus, of a beautiful 
pink within. Stem .1 J inch high, 1-2 lines or more thick, chocolate 
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