No. 81.] 
[September, 1888. 
dmttlea, 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
{Continued from Vol. xvi., p. 102.) 
Agaricus (Fholiota) molliscorium, Clce. <$■ Mass. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, at length depressed, 
even, smooth, soft like kid leather, tawny yellow ; disc darker, dry, 
shining (2-3 in. broad) ; margin acute, thin ; stem equal, paler, 
erect, fistulose (3 in. long, A-J in. thick), silky, punctately 
squamulose at the apex ; ring broad, distant, brownish, deciduous ; 
flesh yellow ; gills narrowly adnate, ventricose, crowded, thin, 
ferruginous ; spores elliptical, smooth, ferruginous, 12 x 5-6 p. 
On the ground. Carlisle. (Dr. Carlyle.) 
Taste and smell none. Habit that of A. prcecox , with which it 
was associated, but differing in the yellow colour and the bright 
ferruginous gills. Near to Ag. ombrophilus , Fr. 
Hygrophorus (Hydrocybe) spadiceus, Scop. Cam. n., 443. Fr. 
Hym. Fur. 420. 
Fragile ; pileus thin, conical, acute, repand, fibrillosely virgate, 
at first covered with an olivaceous bay- brown gluten ; stem hollow, 
equal, dry, becoming dusky and fibrillose ; gills rounded behind, 
free, distant, lemon-yellow. — Fr. Icon. t. 168, fig. 1. 
On the ground. July. Clun Forest. (W. Phillips.) 
Somewhat resembling R. conicus, but not turning black. 
Xiactarius (Piperites) umbrinus, Pers. Syn. 435. 
Pileus compact, convex, then plane, umbilicate, dry, floccosely 
cracking, umber, without zones (3 in. broad] ; stem solid, very 
short (about an inch long), white, becoming cinereous; gills 
crowded, pallid, growing yellowish ; milk acrid, white, making 
greyish spots. — Fr. Hym. Fur. 429. Cooke Illus. t. 1006. 
In damp places. Epping. 
Lactarius (Russularia) tomentosus, Otto, Krombh. t. 40,/. 17, 18. 
Pileus at first umbonate, then depressed and infundibuliform ; 
dull flesh colour, becoming rufous and tawny, delicately tomentose 
(2-3 in. diam.) ; stem erect, at first stuffed, then somewhat hollow, 
pallid, naked, smooth ; substance compact (2 in. long, \ in. thick) ; 
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