NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
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Agaxicus (Psilocybe) scobicola. B 8( Br. 
Pileus convex, umbilicate, white, smooth ; stem fibrillose, nearly 
equal, or dilated at the apex, fistulose ; gills broad, adnexed. — 
B $ Br. Ann. N. //., No. 1769. 
On sawdust. G lamis, N.B. 
Agaricus (Psilocybe) atroxufus. Scliceff t. 234. 
Pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical, convex, obtuse, smooth, 
slightly striate at the margin, discoloured when dry, even ; stem 
hollow, thin, equal, pallid bay; gills rather decurrent, broad, 
plane, umber. B. Br., Ann. N. H., No. 1770. 
On the ground in woods. Glamis, N.B. 
Agaxicus (Psilocybe) hygrophilus. Fr. Hym. Fur., 302. 
Pileus tawny, then clay colour ; stem 4-6 inches long, rather 
fusiform, rooting ; gills emarginate, with a deeply decurrent line ; 
at length umber-brown. — B. Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1771. 
At the roots of ash. Glamis, N.B. 
Hiatula Wynniae. B. 8f Br. 
White. Pileus tender, striate, pulverulent, darker in the 
centre ; stem slender, striate ; gills rather broad, rough. B. $ Br. 
Ann. N H ., No. 1772. 
In a stove at Kew. 
“ Pileus l^in. across ; stem lin. high, 1 line thick. One speci- 
men became darker in drying, and had a longer and thicker stem.” 
Bolbitius xivulosus. B. Br. 
Pileus campanulate, clay coloured, rivulose ; stem attenuated 
upwards ; gills narrow, cinnamon. — B. cj* Br. Ann. N. H., 
No. 1773. 
On earth in an orchard house. Chiswick 
“ Pileus about 1-^in. across. Very different from any other 
known species.” 
BRITISH SPECIES OF UROMYCES. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
It is now generally accepted that certain species of AEcidium are 
related to species of Uromyces, and are but conditions or stages of 
the same fungus. So many facts seem to indicate the soundness of 
this view that we are induced to rearrange the species of Uromyces 
found in Britain in accordance therewith. The only novelty to 
which we can establish any claim is the discovery, some years 
since, of the Uromyces on stems of the nettle to which AZcidium 
Urticce is Telated. We have long delayed the publication in the 
hope of meeting with it again, since probably it has only been 
collected by ourselves and Dr. Capron, of Shere, but have not been 
successful. There is not, however, the slightest doubt of the 
accuracy or authenticity of the specimen from which the descrip- 
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