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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued from p. 16.) 
Agaxicus (Collybia) xylophilus, Fr. Hym. Eur ., 114. 
Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, lax, then expanded, broadly 
gibbons, smooth ; stem hollow, equal, rather flexuous, fibrillose- 
striate, whitish ; gills adnate, narrow, much crowded, white. — Fr. 
Icon. t. 63,/. 2. Cooke Iilus. t. 202. 
On stumps. Black Park, Langley. 
“ A very good species, allied to Ag. ramosus , Bull. Csespitose. 
Stem hollow, 2-3 in. long, 3 lin. thick, equal, sometimes flexuous, 
fibrillose-striate, whitish, destitute of a veil, internally fuscescent. 
Pileus slightly fleshy, broad, deep, campanulate, 3 in. broad (when 
flattened 4 in.), commonly obtuse, sometimes furnished with a 
small umbo, but about the margin at length cracked and split when 
expanded, broadly gibbous, smooth, moist, whitish, or brownish 
clay-coloured in the middle. Flesh everywhere very thin, fragile, 
watery, brownish. Gills adnate, often with a decurrent tooth, 
rather narrow (1 line broad), much crowded, in our specimens 
entire. As to the gills allied to Ag. confluens, not to be compared 
in other points with any of our species.” — Fries Mon. n., 290. 
Agaxicus (Mycena) pullatus, Berk. & Cooke. 
Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, obtusely umbonate, dark 
brown, disc nearly black, sulcato striate to the middle, stem fistu- 
lose, elongated, thickened downwards, of the same color, whitish 
floccose at the base, sometimes rooting, gills scarcely crowded, 
adnexed, white ; odour slightly nitrous. 
On the ground amongst dead leaves. Chingford, Oct., Nov., 
1882. (M. C. C.). Norfolk, (C. B. P.) 
Stem 3 inches long, 1 line thick. Pileus jin. broad, at first 
dark brown with a tinge of purple, almost black, growing a 
little paler with age, sometimes with a glaucous bloom. Gills 
rather broad, quite white. Spores elliptic, smooth. Allied to Ag. 
atro-cyaneus and Ag. leptocephalus. 
Agaxicus (Clitopilus) caxneo-albus, With. Arr. iy., 218. 
Pileus white, polished, centre rather depressed, edge turned 
down, about an inch over ; stem solid, white, cylindrical, about an 
inch high, thick as a crow-quill ; gills decurrent, salmon-coloured, 
mostly in pairs, narrow, not crowded. 
Heathy places. Epping Forest, Sept., 1882. 
The above is Withering’s description, with which our plant agrees 
intimately, but it is doubtful whether Fries had the same plant 
in view ( Hym . Eur., 200), or, if he had, the figures quoted from 
Kalchbrenner ( Icon . t. 12, f. 2) are but little like the Epping 
