" THE FLORA OF WEST YORKSHIRE.” 105 
acknowledgment that he is totally unacquainted with the literature 
of the subject during the past ten years. Like Rip van Winkle, 
he has been sleeping till his rifle is rusty and his dog is dead. 
As to the Fresh-water Algae, which we are told might have been 
classified “ more in accordance with the requirements of the 
higher examinations of the various Universities,” we can only add 
that the recorder has certainly not done his duty if he has with- 
held this higher classification, which it was in his power to give. 
Either he knows of a better classification, or could elaborate one 
himself, and not doing so has not done his best for the work; or 
else he does not know of a better system, and only proffered the 
inuendo because he had nothing else to say, or perhaps as an 
excuse for his original mind condescending to follow anybody’s 
beaten track. Whichever he pleases, and we are content. “ In 
the nation of the blind the one-eyed man is king.” x 
EXOTIC AGARICS. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
Agaricus (Lepiota) atricapillus, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Pileo obtuse convexo, subhaemispherico, apice truncato, depresso, 
atro, ceteris cervino, squamis minutis obscurioribus ornato (J in. 
diam.). Stipite elongato (4-5 une. long, 2 lin. crass) aequali, 
erecto, deorsum squamuloso, annulo patente furfuraceo. Lamellis 
liberis, sublanceolatis. Sporis 5x3 /i. 
On the ground. Natal {Wood 828). 
Agaricus (Lepiota) malleus, Berk. Intell. Ohs. No. 67. 
Pileo subgloboso, demum convexo-applanato, obtuse umbonato, 
extus intusque albo (3 unc. diam.), cute tenui in squamulas irregu- 
lares angulatas cinereas diffracto, stipite elongato, deorsum incras- 
sato, bulboso (5-6 unc. long) fistuloso, cinereo, carne fusco-rubro, 
annulo amplo, patulo, lamellis liberis, lanceolatis, albidis ; sporis 
ellipticis (15-17 X 10 fx), episporio crasso. 
Ad terram. Masulipatam, India. 
Agaricus (Lepiota) alliciens, Berk, in Serb. No. 76. 
Caespitosus. Pileo conico-campanulato, sulfureo (circa 1 unc. 
diam.), adpresse fusco-squamuloso, squamulis, acutis margine striato, 
crenulato. Stipite gracili, flexuoso, ascendente, elongato (4-5 unc. 
long, 2 lin. crass) fistuloso, aequali vel deorsum leniter incrassato, 
annulo deciduo, lamellis liberis, lanceolatis, virescentibus. Sporis 
ovatis (12 x 8 m.) subviridis. 
Ad frustulis. Masulipatam, India. 
Agaricus (Lepiota) conipes, Berk, in Kerb. No. 67. 
Totus sulfureus, splitarius, pileo hemisphaerico dein explanato, 
obtuse umbonato, membranaceo, usque ad medium et ultra plicato, 
fusco-furfuraceo, lamellis confertis, quodquam undulatis, lineari- 
lanceolatis, irregulari-tridymis, pileo rotundato-adnatis ; stipite 
