No. 68.] 
[June, 1885. 
dmiliea, 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued from p. 61.) 
Agaricus frumentaceus, Bull. Cooke lllus. t. 470. 
The plate issued in “ Illustrations ” was copied from a drawing 
made by Mr. Worthington Smith from specimens sent to him 
from Forres by the Rev. Dr. Keith. Never having been so fortu- 
nate as to see this species, we accepted the designation attached to 
the drawing, and published it as an Entoloma, under the impres- 
sion that it was the Agaricus ( Entoloma ) frumentaceus , Berk. & Br. 
Dr. Keith has kindly drawn our attention to this figure, at the 
same time stating his conviction that the original specimens were 
those of an undoubted Tricholoma , the pink tinge of the spores 
being faint and quite of a. different character to the spores in 
Hyporhodii. Whatever, therefore, the plant of Berkeley and 
Broome may be, to which they attach the name of frumentaceus , 
and include in the subgenus Entoloma , it cannot be the species 
figured as above, since Dr. Keith must have had ample material to 
judge, and no one would doubt his ability to form an authoritative 
opinion. Plate 470 must, therefore, be corrected to Ag. ( Tricho- 
loma ) frumentaceus , Bull. We may add that the majority of Con- 
tinental mycologists contend that Bulliard’s species is a Tricholoma , 
and both the size and form of the spores given in our plate 
certainly are more in accordance with those usually found in 
Tricholoma than those of Entoloma. 
Agaricus (Pluteus) semibulbosus, Fr. Hym Bur. 188. 
Small. Pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical, obtuse, atomate , soft , 
sulcate , white ; stem delicately fistulose, pubescent , inflated in a 
bullate manner at the base ; gills free, whitish, then flesh- 
coloured. — Cooke lllus. t. 518, fig. a. 
On wood. Scarboro’. (G. Massee.) 
Pileus about half an inch broad, deeply sulcate. Stem about an 
inch long. 
Agaricus (Pluteus) violarius, Massee , in litt. 
Pileus hemispherical, then nearly plane, velvety, even, watery 
dark purple, disc darkest, margin undulate. Flesh thick, grey ; 
7 
