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Nectria adelphica, CJce. Sf Mass. 
Casspitosa. Peritheciis in casspitulos minutos (4-10), stromate 
aggregatis, globosis, compressis vel difformibus, laevibus, cinna- 
barinis, ostiolo distincto pertusis, vix collabentibus ; ascis 
cylindraceis, octosporis ; sporidiis ellipsoideis, magnis, uniseptatis, 
vix medio constrictis, utrinque subconoideis, hyalinis (30-35 x 10 
p), nucleatis, demum leniter longitudinaliter striatulis. 
On branches. Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. (Scott Elliot.) 
Habit and appearance resembling N. coccinea. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued from p. 28 . ) 
Agaricus (Lepiota) emplastrum, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Pileus convex, then expanded (2-3 inches), silky, pallid, covered 
at first with a smooth, membranaceous, dark-brown cuticle, which 
splits up into large, adherent, plaister-like patches or scales, margin 
smooth, naked. Stem equal, fibrillose (3 in. x \ in.), fistulose, girt 
by a superior erect ring, with a marginal brown band. Flesh turn- 
ing pink when cut, gills crowded, free, remote, narrowed behind, 
leaving a broad collar round the stem. Taste and smell none. 
Spores apiculate at one end, nucleate, large, white, 20 x 
10-12 p. — Cooke Illus. Suppl. t. 1164. 
Gregarious, amongst grass in a churchyard. Ealing, Oct., 1887. 
Somewhat resembling A. Badhami, but scales smooth and spores 
larger. 
Agaricus (Tricholoma) fallax, Peck 25 Report , t. 1, f. 5-8. 
Pileus firm, convex, expanded, rarely depressed in the centre, 
moist, smooth, yellow (sometimes rufous at the disc), about 1 in. 
diam. Stem short, smooth, yellow, stuffed, then hollow, some- 
times attenuated at the base (1 in. long). Gills rounded behind, 
crowded, white, then yellowish. Spores 4-5 p long, ovate. — Cooke 
Illus. Suppl. t. 1151 A. 
Under firs. Scarboro’, March, 1883. 
Allied to Ag. cerinus , P. 
Agaricus (Collybia) thelephorus, Cke. &; Mass. 
Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, with an acute mammillate 
umbo (1 to 1J inch diam.), ochraceous, becoming darker and fuli- 
ginous at the apex, margin at first incurved, then repand, faintly 
striate. Stem cylindrical, equal, hollow, purple at the base, paler 
at the apex (3-4 in. long), slender, smooth. Gills broadest behind, 
adnate, rather crowded, spores 8-10 x 6 p. — Cooke Illus. Suppl. 
t. 1167. 
In peat bogs. Scarboro’. 
Near ally to Ag. collinus. 
