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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
(Continued from p. 49.) 
Agaricus (Armillaria) Jasonis, CJce. S' Mass. 
Csespitose. Pileus rather fleshy, especially at the disc, cam- 
panula^ then expanded, with a distinct rounded umbo, granu- 
lately papillate, golden yellow, becoming reddish at the apex (3 in. 
diam.), margin appendiculate with the fibrous veil. Stem nearly 
equal, or a little thickened below (2-3 in. long, inch thick), of 
the same colour, squamose below the torn squarrose ring, which is 
rather distant ; hollow, gills adnate, scarcely crowded, thin, white, 
then pallid. Spores 8 x 5 p. Odour strong. 
On stumps. Carlisle. (Dr. Carlyle.) 
With just the habit of many species of Pholiota , but with white 
gills and spores. 
Peniophora hydnoides, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Thinly effused, indeterminate, pale cinereous, covered with paler 
teeth, or tufts resembling the teeth of a Hydnum, which, under the 
microscope, are found to be fascicles of metuloids, colourless, attenu- 
ated upwards, and rough, 70-120 x 12-14 p. Basidia clavate, 
spores globose, hyaline, smooth, 4-5 p. 
On bark. Carlisle. (Dr. Carlyle.) 
Bearing a great resemblance superficially to Grandinia livida. 
Guepinia pezizseformis, BerJc. 
On branches. Carlisle. (Dr. Carlyle.) 
Bovista olivacea, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Globose, 1J-2 inches diam., with a short stout rooting base, 
cortex very thin and evanescent, peridium thick, at first soft and 
pliant like leather, becoming brittle and breaking away in patches, 
pale ocliraceous,'at length whitish ; mass of spores, and very dense 
capillitium, bright citrine, then olive, threads thin, flaccid, simple, 
spores globose, smooth, pale yellow, sometimes pedicellate, 5 fi 
diam. 
On the ground. Durdham Down ( Herb . C. E. Broome in Mus. 
Brit.), and Winmer&, Yict. (F. Reader 62.) 
Hypoxylon perforatum, ScJiwz. Sacc. Syll. 1431. 
On dead stems of Indian corn. Kevv. 
Valsa oxy stoma. Rehm. Sacc. Syll. 457. 
On Alnus autumnalis. Kew. 
Sphaerella (Leestadia) veneta, Sacc. Syll. 1600. 
On dead leaves of Platanus. Kew. 
Astexina juniperina, CJce. 
Seated amongst a subiculum of Antennaria pinophila. Peri- 
thecia discoid, convex (i- T ^ mm. diam.), surrounded by radiating 
threads. Asci clavate, octosporous. Sporidia fusiform, triseptate, 
clear brown (25 x 7 p). 
On Juniper. Forres, N.B. 
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