No. 67.] 
[March, 1885. 
(Smilha, 
A QUAETEBLY BECOED OF CEYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITEBATUBE. 
NEW BKITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued . from p. 47.) 
Agaricus (Tricholoma) variegatus, Scop. Cam. 434. 
Pileus fleshy, soon flattened, dry, and, as well as tlie tough 
stuffed stem, squamulose with reddish flocci; gills emarginate, 
crowded, pallid yellowish or whitish, edge equal, quite entire , of 
the same colour. Fr. Hym. Fur. 53. 
On rotten wood. Epping. (J. English.') 
Smaller and more slender than A. rutilans , from which it can 
scarcely be separated as a distinct species. In the specimens col- 
lected the stem was pallid yellowish and scarcely floccose, the gills 
whitish. Easily mistaken for an abnormal form of Ag. rutilans , and 
it may be nothing more. 
Agaricus (Collybia) velutipes, Fries ; variety, rubescens, Cooke. 
Pileus viscid, about an inch, bright ferruginous brown , obscurely 
striate, stem as in the type, velvety dark brown, internally becom- 
ing blackish below, white above ; gills becoming spotted with brown. 
Amongst fir leaves. Largo, N.B. ( W. G. Smith.) 
This peculiar variety will be figured in the supplement to the 
11 Illustrations.” It may be considered by some to claim rank as a 
distinct species, on account of the viscid pileus and spotted gills, 
but being found so late as November (1872), the time at which 
Ag. velutipes is most flourishing, strengthens the impression that 
it is only a variety of that species. 
Agaricus (Collybia) leucomyosotis, Cooke 4 Smith. 
Pileus convex then expanded, sometimes obtusely umbonate pale 
mouse-coloured, disc darker, paler at the margin, whole plant be- 
coming pallid, almost white when dry, strong scented, rather frag- 
rant, margin faintly striate, stem hollow, very brittle, slightly 
pruinose above, pallid, white at the base, and obtuse. Gills thick, 
moderately distant, adnate, sinuate behind, white. Spores elliptic 
(*006 x *004 mm.). Cooke Illust. Supp. ined. 
On Sphagnum, in bogs, Wimbledon Common and other places, 
May, 1868. ( W. G. Smith.) 
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