No. 62.] 
[December, 1883. 
A QUAETEELY EECOED OF CEYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITEEATUEE. 
NEW BKITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
(Continued from p. 37 J 
Agaricus (Tricholoma) duracinus, Coolie. 
Pileus flesLj, compact, firm, dry, smooth, shining, convex, 
broadly umbonate, cinereous, margin involute ; stem solid, attenu- 
ated upwards, striate below, reticulate squamose above, rather 
paler than the pileus ; flesh nearly white ; gills narrow, crowded, 
emarginate, arcuate, cinereous. 
On the ground, under cedar. Kew Gardens, Oct., 1883. 
Pileus 3 inches diam. Stern 3 inches long, inch thick at the 
base, nearly an inch at the apex. Fleshy disc nearly an inch thick. 
Gills little more than aline (scarcely one-eighth of an inch) broad. 
Upper part of the stem minutely squamose in a peculiar reticu- 
lated manner. Whole fungus cinereous and firm. Allied to Ag. 
tigrinus, Fr. 
Agaricus (Mycena) leucogalus, Coohe. 
Csespitose. Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, umbonate, 
sulcate to the middle, purple brown, paler at the margin, becoming 
black at the umbo, milk white, plentiful ; stem slender, a little 
thickened downwards, fistulose, of the same colour as the pileus, 
whitish tomentose at the base ; gills adnate, with a small decur- 
rent tooth, rather distant, connected by veins, cinereous. 
On rotten stump. Kew Gardens, Oct. 9, 1883. 
Pileus half an inch broad and high, not exceeding an inch. Stem 
3 inches long, forming dense c^spitose tufts. Very similar in 
general appearance to Ag. pullatus, B. & Cke., but belonging to a 
different section. It could not be retained as a mere variety of Ag. 
galopus. 
Cortinarius (Fhlegmacium) napus, Fr. Hym. Fur. 343. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, glutinous, margin 
broken ; stem solid, equal, smooth, ascending from an obconic, 
oblique, marginate bulb, flesh-white ; gills emarginate, broad, 
rather distant, crisped, whitish, then dingy., 
In pine woods. Woolhope Foray, 1863. 
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