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NOTES AND QUERIES ON RUSSULJ2. 
at the same time the most perfect of the five groups or tribes. 
This requires no comment. The second, or Furcates , seems at 
certain points to melt into the fourth, or Heterophylles . It requires 
considerable care sometimes to put them in practice. The third, 
or Rigides, should be, and we think is, a natural and satisfactory 
tribe, although not a large one. Whilst the last, or Fragiles , if 
strictly maintained within the limits of the diagnosis, is a good 
workable tribe, although we fail to see a good reason for two 
groups of the yellow-spored forms when one group would answer 
the purpose. The same division of yellow-spored from white- 
spored species would be advisable in all the other tribes. A further 
subdivision of each section, according to some prominent feature, 
so as to reduce the size of each final group to some six or ten 
species, would probably be the most complete classification, and the 
most workable one that could be proposed. This is the only direc- 
tion in which we imagine that any reform in the classification could 
he taken. 
Some there are who have been rash enough to suggest the 
amalgamation of Lactarius and Russula in one large genus. These 
enthusiasts could hardly be practical men, or they would know that 
in proportion as you diminish, and not increase the size of the 
genus — all other conditions being equal — so do you facilitate its 
comprehension, and render it more practically applicable. — 
Requiescat in pace. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
(Continued from p. 3.) 
Agaiicus (Omphalia) chrysophyllus, Fr. Hym. Fur. 156. 
Pileus submembranaceous, umbilicate, flaccid, flocculose, dusky 
yellow, when dry hoary tan-colour, margin reflexed, stem hollow, 
equal, smooth, yellow, gills very decurrent, distant, bright golden 
egg-colour. — Fr. Icon. t. 1. 
On wood. Rothiemurchas (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
Pileus about If in. diam. 
Agaricus (Naucoria) subglobosus, Alb. Sf Schiv. Sacc. SyU. 3406. 
Pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical, even, rather viscid, yellowish 
(about 2 cm. broad), stem thin, becoming hollow, equal, short 
(If in. long), longitudinally striate ; gills very broad, nearly free, 
rhomboidal, convex, ochraceous flesh-colour. Spores sphoeroidal 
(9x7 /a), pale salmon-colour. 
On the ground. Woodman’s Glade, Epping. 
This seems to be the true species of Alb. & Schw., but the 
spores can scarcely belong to Dermini , but rather to Hyporrhodii. 
North American specimens determined by Berkeley (when dried) 
