No. 88.] 
[June, 1890. 
dmtlh», 
A QUARTERLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 
AND ITS LITERATURE. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
(Continued from p. 54.) 
Agaricus (Flammula) purpuratus, Cooke S( Mass. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtusely umbonate 
(1-2 in. diam.), purple or purple-brown, clad with minute floccose 
scales of the same colour. Stem curved, ascending, equal (1-2 in. 
long, 2-8 lines thick), smooth and pallid above, purple below and 
granulose, solid, flesh pale-yellowish above, purplish below, ring 
fibrillose ; gills adnate, somewhat rounded behind, not crowded, 
lemon-yellow, at length bright ferruginous (8x5 p). Taste 
very bitter . — Cooke Ulus. Supp. t. 964. 
On tree fern stems. Kew Gardens. 
Cyphella cernua, Schum. Flor. Scelland. p. 421. 
Minute, scattered, whitish, pallid, cyathiform, nodding, margin 
quite entire, or more often laciniate, teeth unequal, and somewhat 
turned in. Stem rather short, thin, dilated at the apex, diapha- 
nous, when old umber at the base. — FI. Dan. t. 1970,/. 3. 
On elder bark. Ayrshire. (J). A. Boyd.) 
Fries evidently considers this a variety of Cypliella capula , Fr. 
Spores 10 x 8 p. 
Peziza leucomelas, P. Grev. xvii., 44. 
This has occurred also at Norwood. 
Phoma nepenthis, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Perithecia scattered, immersed, black, membranaceous, perforate. 
Sporules elliptical, binucleate, hyaline, 7 x 3J p, on short sporo- 
phores. 
On dead pitchers of Nepenthes. Readlands, Glasgow. (Z). A. 
Boyd.) 
Cytispora taxifoliae, Cke. $f Mass. 
Stromatibus sparis, globoso-conicis, Isevibus, nigris, erumpen- 
tibus, intus 3-4 loculatis, spheeriaeformibus, ostiolo conico, basidiis 
minutis ; sporulis allantoideis, minutis, hyalinis, 3 x 1 u. 
In foliis Taxi, Near Carlisle. 
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