No. 80.] 
June, 1888.] 
OixmWm, 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued from p. 81.) 
Agaricus (Lepiota) micxopholis, Berk, fy Br. Journ. Linn. Soc. xi., 
505. 
Pileus conical, then flattened, white (L in. broad), clad with 
minute radiating dark cinereous squamules, margin substriate, stem 
flexuous, nearly equal, white, ring erect, spreading. Gills white, 
ventricose, crowded, free. Spores 5 /x long. — Cooke Illus „ t. 943, 
/• B. 
On cocoa nut fibre in a stove. Scarboro’. 
Agaricus (Lepiota) felinus, Fr, Hym. Fur. 32. 
Smaller than A. clypeolarius , pileus white, umbo and scales 
becoming black, stem attenuated upwards, of the same colour as 
the pileus. Gills crowded, white, margin serrate. Spores 10 x 5 
fi. — Cooke Illus. t. 943,/. A. 
On the ground. Queen’s Cottage, Kew. 
Agaricus (Lepiota) martialis, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Pileus thin, rather fleshy, silky pulverulent, campanulate then 
expanded, dark fleshy red, with a tinge of ochre, darkest in the 
centre, margin striate, scarcely an inch broad, stem slender, erect, 
fistulose, smooth 1-1| in. long, 1-2 lines thick, rufous and swollen 
at the base, ochraceous at the apex, with a broad pendulous rather 
distant ring. Gills free, somewhat lanceolate, rather crowded, 
whitish. Spores 8x4 p. — Cooke Illus. t. 944, /. B. 
On tree fern in conservatory. Scarboro’. (G. M.) 
Agaxicus (Lepiota) ianthinus, Cooke. 
Pileus rather fleshy, umbonate (f inch broad), whitish at the 
even margin, disc dark violet, fibrillose, rest of pileus streaked with 
innate radiating, violet, hair-like squamules, stem slender, somewhat 
flexuous, nearly equal, whitish, soon hollow, girt about the middle 
with a narrow deciduous ring. Gills free, lanceolate, scarcely 
crowded, whitish. — Cooke Illus. t. 944, /. A. 
In stove. Kew Gardens. 
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