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NEW BRITI8H FUNGI. 
Agaricus (Wlycena) codoniceps, Cooke. 
Minute, pileus campanulate, scarcely expanding, sulcate, sprinkled 
with somewhat erect short hairs, wholly umber (about 1 line broad, 
2 lines high), stem attenuated downwards, umber below, whitish 
above, slender (nearly i in. long), gills adnate, linear, not crowded, 
white. Spores 5 /x long. — Cooke Illus. t. 952, /. B. 
On tree fern stems. Mr. Bull’s nursery, 1874. 
Illustrated from figures by Mr. W. G. Smith. 
Bolbitius conocephalus, Bull. Champ, t. 563,/. 1. 
Pileus membranaceous, conical, hygrophanous, disc even, slightly 
viscid, margin striate ; stern fistulose , equal , smooth , shining, rather 
tough, white ; gills free, ventricose, dingy, then ferruginous. (Spores 
18 x 9-10 /x,.) — Fr. Hym. Fur. p. 334. 
On the ground, in palm house. Kew. 
Melanospora lagenaria ( Bers .), Sacc. Syll. 4596. 
On old Polyporus adustus. Queen’s Cottage, Kew, April, 1888. 
Melanospora cirrhata, Berk, in Fungi Fxs. No. 325. 
Spores 10 x 7| /x. 
On grass or Carex. 
Has sometimes been referred to M. Zarnice. 
Glaeosporium encephalarti, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Pustules scattered over the pinnae, immersed, cuticle elevated 
and discoloured brown or black, with a pale perforate centre. 
Conidia elliptical, continuous, hyaline, 8 x 5 /x. 
On leaves of Encephalartos horridus. Kew Gardens. 
Phoma selaginellae, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Perithecia scattered, immersed, small, punctiform, black. Sporules 
elliptical, continuous, hyaline, 5 x 3 /x. 
On stipes of Selaginella Wildenovii. Kew Gardens. 
Stachybotrys verrucosa, Cke. $ Mass. 
Threads scattered, or collected in small dark olive tufts, erect, 
geniculate, with short branches at each angle, forming a lax spiral, 
septate, externally minutely rough, pallid, proceeding from a 
colourless, smooth, creeping branched mycelium ; apices of the 
branches terminating in a whorl of four to six clavate basidia ; 
conidia sphserical, verrucose, black with a slight tinge of purple, 
10-14 g.. 
On damp “ drying paper. 1 ' Herbarium, Kew. 
Allied to Stachybotrys scabra, but a larger and finer species. 
SACCARDO “ SYLLOGE FUNGORUM.” 
The seventh volume (Part I.) has just made its appearance 
(March 15, 1888), and contains Gasteromycetefe, of which the 
Phalloideje are by E. Fischer, and the residue by Dr. J. B. de 
Toni ; Phycomyceteae by Dr. Berlese and J. B. de Toni, and the 
Myxomycetese by Dr. A. N. Berlese. 
To only one portion of this volume are we disposed to raise any 
objection, and that portion, we contend, is wholly unworthy of the 
