No. 75.] 
[March, 1887. 
dmtlffa, 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. 0. Cooke. 
( Continued from, p. 43. ) 
Agaricus (Amanita) solitarius, Bull. Champ., t. 48 . 
Pileus convex then flattened, pelliculose, margin nearly 
even, warts angular, evanescent. Stem solid, equal, imbricatedly 
squamose below , bulb campanulate, rooting , margin inserted, ring 
torn, gills attenuatedly adnate.^-FV. Hym. JEur. p. 22. 
On the ground. Near Bristol. (C. Bucknall.) 
Agaricus (Chitonia) rubriceps, CooTce Sf Mass. 
Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate then expanded, umbonate, 
smooth, even, testaceous, margin faintly striate, stem erect, 
'fistulose, paler than the pileus, rooting, t^olva sheathing, 
saccate, whitish, torn at the margin. Gills free, lanceolate, 
rather crowded, purplish brown. Spores elliptical, a little 
attenuated at each end, 12 x 6 p. 
On soil in Aroid house. Kew Gardens. Dec., 1886. 
Not an indigenous species, but of interest as illustrating the 
sub-genus. 
Pileus 1 inch diam. Stem 3 in. long, about two lines thick. 
Agaricus (Panaeolus) scitulus, Massee. 
Pileus campanulate, obtuse, smooth, even, viscid, margin 
exceeding the gills, dirty ochre, pale ; flesh thin, white, stem 
equal, fistulose, white, shining, base peronate, sheath ending in 
a persistent ring below the middle of the stem ; gills crowded, 
narrow, becoming ashy grey, speckled with the black spores, 
margin entire, paler, spores black, with a colourless hilum, 
narrowly elliptical, 12-13, X 4 p. 
On soil in flower-pot. Scarborough. June, 1885. 
Pileus \ in. broad, rather higher than broad. Stem in. 
long, about one line tbick. It resembles Ag. separatus in 
miniature, but differs in the sheathed stem and basal ring. 
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