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rather hollow when old (4-5 cm. long, 10-15 mm. thick). Flesh 
white, mild. Gills crowded, equal, rarely with dimidiate inter- 
mixed, attenuated behind and adnexed, white, unchanging. Spores 
subglobose, echinulate 9 x 8 [x. 
On the ground, under trees. Kew Gardens. Edible. 
Russula elegans, Bresadola Fungi Trident , t. 26. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then somewhat depressed ; margin 
when old tuberculose-striate, viscid , bright rosy flesh-colour, soon 
tinged with ochre in the circumference, wholly densely granulate 
(3-5 cm. broad). Stem spongy, stuffed, then hollow, thickened at 
the base, white, afterwards ochraceous below, rather rugulose 
(3-5 cm. long, 1 cm. thick). Flesh white, ochrey when old, acrid. 
Gills attenuated behind, adnexed, or slightly rounded, much 
crowded, equal, rarely a little furcate, whitish, with age becoming 
ochraceous orange. Spores spherical, echinulate (8-10 jj. diam.). 
On the ground. Kew Gardens. (G. M.). 
Russula serotina, Quelet Soc. Hot. Fr., 1878, p. 289, t. 3, /. 11. 
Pileus globose, a little flattened (2-3 cm.), purplish-bistre or olive, 
pruinose with white ; margin lilac, with the extreme edge whitish. 
Stem wrinkled, mealy. Flesh tough, white, and peppery. Gills 
eroded, white, with a tinge of yellow. Spores ovoid, rough (7 p. dim.) 
Under beech. Arboretum, Kew, Oct., 1886. (G. M.) 
Boletus fulvidus, Fries Hym. Fur., 517. 
Pileus convexo-plane, rigid, as well as the stem, which is stuffed, 
then hollow, equal, firm, even, smooth , shining , growing dusky; 
flesh white, then yellowish ; tubes free, elongated ; pores white, 
then lemon-yellow. 
Under trees. Arboretum, Kew, Sept., 1886. (G. M.) 
Lasiosphaeiia sulphurella, Sacc. Syll., II., 202. 
Perithecia gregarious, adnato-superficial, globose then conoid 
(l-f mm. diam.), clad with a sulphur-coloured velvety down ; 
ostiola short, papillate, black ; texture cellular, yellow, then 
greenish, denser, radiating and smoky at the ostiolum ; asci 
cylindrical, shortly stipitate (180 x 16-10 fi), octosporous. 
Sporidia vermicular, curved (60 x 4-5 p), rounded at the ends, 
with a filiform appendage (25-30 p long), 4-5 nucleate, hyaline, 
rarely inflated at the apex. 
On decorticated wood. Kew Gardens, Aug., 1886. (G. M.) 
Allied to L. ovina , from which it differs chiefly in the sulphury 
colour of the downy coating. 
Epicoccum diversisporum, Freuss. Linn., xxv., 740. 
Minute, gregarious, seated on rosy spots, stroma globose, dark 
purple, purple within, irregularly cellular, vesiculose ; conidia 
crowded, variable in size, some tetrahedral, others rounded, not 
reticulated, verrucose, brown ; verrucae darker, pedicels white. — 
Sacc. Syll., iv., 741. 
On leaves of reeds, &c. River side, Kew. (G. M.) 
Spores 6-9 p diam. 
