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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
By W. Phillips, F.L.S., and Charles B. Plowright. 
( Continued from Vol, x., p. 74.) 
227. Agaricus (Lepiota) felinus, Pers. Syn., p. 201. Fr. 32. 
Pileus ovato-campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, submem - 
branaceous, with a very dull, almost black centre, squamose, each 
minute scale being tipped with a black speck ; margin striate, 
crennlate, thin, tender, and fragile ; stem hollow, enlarged below ; 
ring large, fragile, evanescent ; gills white, free, subdistant, serra- 
tutile. Spores oval or oval-elliptical, 10 X 5 mill. 
Pileus l'J to If in. across. Stem If to 2 in. high, 1-2 lines 
thick. 
In fir woods. Amongst moss. Middleton, 1876. North Woot- 
ton, 1880. 
This is a very pretty fragile species. The white pileus, with an 
almost black umbo, is very striking ; the lower part of the stem 
has often a very delicate reddish tinge. 
228. Agaricus (Clitocybe) vermicularis, Fr. Hymen., p. 98. 
Pileus slightly fleshy, umbilicate then reflexed, infundibuliform, 
repand, even, smooth, moist, becoming pale ; stem hollow, soon 
compressed, smooth, shining, and, as well as the decurrent very 
crowded thin gills, white. 
Somewhat fragile, pileus of a beautiful red or flesh-colour, 
then tan (almost hygrophanous). Most frequently undulato-lobed. 
— Fries. 
Forres, N.B. Rev. Dr. Keith. 
* Agaricus (Omphalia) Postii, Fr. Hymen., p. 157. 
King’s Lynn. C.B.P. July, 1883. 
229. Agaricus (Pluteus) salicinus, Pers. Fr. Hymen., p. 659. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convexo-plane, subumbonate, disc darker, 
floccoso-rugose ; stem stuffed, fibrillose, bluish-white ; gills free, 
rosy. 
In the interior of a hollow pollard willow. South Wootton. 
Sept. 11, 1882. 
Pileus about 1^ to 2 in. wide ; with a tinge of green. 
* Agaricus (Pholiota) aegerita, Fr. Hymen., p. 219. 
On elm tree. King's Lynn. 
230. Agaricus (Hypholoma) hypoxanthus, N. sp. 
Csespitose. Pileus umbonate, moist, viscid, dirty white, umbo 
darker, brownish, squamulose with minute black fibrillae, which are 
evanescent ; gills purple brown, crowded, narrow, edge white, adnate, 
seceding, sometimes forked ; pileus subcarnose, except, the centre, 
which is a thick fleshy umbo ; stem curved, hollow, incrassated 
below, whitish, smooth above, floccoso-squamose below. Base 
with a distinct yellow tinge ; mycelium orange-yellow. 
