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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
In field. Sandy Lane, near Guildford. (T. Howse.) 
Pileus about an inch and a half. Stem l|-2 in. long, about ^ 
in. thick at the apex, £ in. at the base. 
Paxillus (Lepista) orcelloides, Che. Sf Mass. 
Pileus at first snow white, becoming stained with livid or greyish 
blotches, minutely silky, shining, margin thin, involute. Stem 
tapering towards the base, solid, elastic, silky-fibrillose, livid 
ochraceous. Gills crowded, readily separating from the horny 
hymenophore, whitish, then livid, at length dirty yellowish-brown, 
adnate, decurrent. Spores 8x4 p. — Cooke Illus. t. 874 B. 
Amongst grass. Queen’s Cottage Grounds, Kew. 
Paxillus (Tapinia) crassus, Fr. Hym. Fur. 404. 
Pileus fleshy, oblique, nearly plane, becoming even, and 
ferruginous. Stem stuffed, excentric, very short, ascending. Gills 
decurrent, broad, rather distant, straight, cinnamon. Spores fer- 
ruginous, 15-18x7-8 jx. — Cooke Illus. t. 877. 
On mound of rifle butts. Blackheath. Nov., 1885. (T. 
Howse.) 
This agrees with specimen in Herb. Berk., but it seems to be 
rather a Flammula than a Paxillus. 
Lactarius (Russularia) cremor, Fries Hym. Fur. 432. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, minutely punctulate , viscid, 
tawny, margin striate. Stem hollow, fragile, of the same colour. 
Gills adnate, rather distant, pallid. Milk mild, watery, white. 
Spores globose, rough, 10 p. 
In woods. Carlisle. (Dr. Carlyle.) 
Stem 2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick. 
Bovista ovalispora, Clce. fy Mass. 
Subglobose, sessile. Cortex thin, whitish or ochraceous, sub- 
persistent. Peridium thin, flaccid, smooth, dull lead-colour, 
dehiscing by an irregular apical rupture. Capillitium and spores 
umber in the mass. Threads 12-16 p at the thickest part, much 
and vaguely branched, tapering to long slender tips, dirty umber 
by transmitted light. Spores oval (6x4^ p), brownish umber, 
with a narrow hyaline border, caused by the thickened epispore, 
pedicels long and stout, hyaline. 
On the ground. Kew Gardens. Nelson (New Zealand). S. 
Carolina (U.S.A.). 
Differing from B. plumbea in being larger (2 inches or more) in 
the oval spores, and from B. nigrescens in the oval spores and 
absence of purple tinge in the capillitium and spores. 
Lycoperdon Cookei, Mass, in Journ. Boy. Micr. Soc. } 1887, p. 14, t. 
13, /. 24-26. 
Hemispherical or globose, abruptly contracted into a short, thick, 
stem-like base, smokv-brown above, white below, minutely 
areolato-furfuraceous, dehiscing by a small irregular mouth. 
Capillitium continuous with the well-developed cellular sterile 
base, threads varying in thickness, simple, firm. Spores bright 
citrine-yellow, then olivaceous-umber, globose, smooth, sometimes 
