NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
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Maxasmius (Mycena) actinophoxus, B. Sf Br ., Ceylon Fungi No. 385 . 
Pileus 2 to 3 lines across, plane, smooth, even, pale ochre, disc 
purple, with radiating lines of the same colour, very thin. Stem 
1 inch long, straight, equal, thread-like, polished, brownish red, 
curved at the base. Gills few, rather broad, subdecurrent, with 
shorter ones between, distant, Hot anastomosing nor connected by 
veins, pallid. Spores sphaerical. — CooJce Illus. t. 1136 B. 
On naked soil. Kew Gardens. 
Rhinotxichum aureum, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Broadly effused, overrunning the entire matrix, bright golden 
orange. Sterile threads, creeping, branched, thin, septate. Fer- 
tile threads, erect, simple or dichotomous, septate (12-15 p 
diam.) , ultimate joint papillate with obtuse warts. Conidia ovate- 
elliptical, clustered at the apices in subglobose heads. 18-20 x 
10-12 fi. 
On decayed Paxillus. Epping Forest. 
Trichia purpurasceus, Nyl. 
Sporangia stipitate, ovate or spherico-ovate, solitary or gregari- 
ous, purplish-red, opaque; stem longitudinally wrinkled, erect or 
cernuous, rather firm and thickish, expanding at the base into a 
small hypothallus, coloured like the sporangium, which it equals 
or exceeds in length ; mass of elaters and spores bright ocbrace- 
ous ; elaters rather short, fusiform, attenuated at each end into a 
very long, tapering, smooth, straight, or flexuous apiculus, spirals 
rather prominent and distant, about 5 /x thick at the centre, simple 
or branched ; spores globose, verruculose, yellow, 9-11 /x diameter. 
— Nyl., in Sdllsk. pro Faun, et Flor. Fenn., notis. Ny ., Ser. H, I., 
(p. 126 ; Mass. Bev. Trick., p. 332 ; Sacc. Syll. 1508. ) 
On moss. Carlisle. (Dr. Carlyle.) 
Very nearly approaching some forms of Trichia fragilis, from 
which it differs more especially in the distant, prominent, sharp 
edged and not flattened spiral bands on the elaters. The inner 
surface of the sporangial wall is studded with purple organic 
lumps ; these, however, are met with in some undoubted forms of T. 
fragilis. 
Hemiaxcyxia Bucknallii, Mass. 
Sporangia sessile on a broad or narrow base, seated on a very 
thin hypothallus, circular, reniform, or subangular from mutual 
pressure, wall very thin, gilvo-ochraceous, soon disappearing ; mass 
of spores orange ; capillitium well developed, threads combined to 
|orm a wide meshed network with many free ends, 4-5 p thick, 
walls with annular ridges mostly crowded, but here and there 
scattered, and sometimes passing into a spiral, the ridges with 
numerous thin, straight spines 3-4 /x long, the free tips irregularly 
swollen and bristling with spines, as are also certain interstitial 
swollen portions ; spores globose, pale yellow, minutely warted, 
7-9 /x diameter. 
Qn wood. Bristol. (C. Bucknall.) 
