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CONTROVERTED AGARICS. 
is not to be wondered at if names were sometimes wrongly given; 
there was no time to discuss the specimen, and an erroneous 
tradition might possibly be handed down. The king of mycologists, 
Elias Fries himself, once misled the whole Woolhope Club by 
writing down through a mere lapsus calami, the word saginus for 
triumphans. As soon as I had mastered the ABC of the subject, 
I could not satisfy myself by resting so fully on tradition, and I 
am afraid at one time I earned a bad reputation as an incorrigible 
sceptic. The rectification of some names, such as that of Agaricus 
storea , to which Dr. Cooke has alluded this evening, was in some 
measure due to this sceptical spirit ; so perhaps I the more readily 
render the expression of my unbounded admiration at Dr. Cooke’s 
stupendous work and well -merited success, and foretell the higher 
honour still which all noble minds will offer to him because of his 
generous boldness in confessing thus publicly to the few errors to 
be found in his work. 
NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued from p. 8.) 
Agaricus (Armillaria) citzi, Inzengi Sic. t. 3, f. 1. Fries Hym. 
Fur. 46. Cooke Illus. t. 1181. 
Caespitose, pileus fleshy, thin (about 1 inch), rather umbonate, 
smooth, sulphur-yellow, margin crenulate, becoming whitish, stem 
slender (2-3 in. x 1-2 lines), apex whitish floccose, pallid, down- 
wards rufescent, ring spreading, thin, broad ; gills adnate, 
crowded, white. Odour of fresh meal. Spores minute, 5 x 4 p. 
On trunks. Kew. 
Agaricus (Clitocybe) occultus, Cooke Illus. Supp. t. 1184. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, and depressed, even, smooth, 
but innately virgate (5-7 c.m. diam.), viscid, pallid, smoky about 
the disc, whitish at the margin, stem equal, or slightly expanded 
above into the pileus, solid, white, striately fibrillose (4-6 c.m. 
long, 1 c.m. thick), often curved ; gills rather distant and broad 
(to 5 m.m.), adnate, a little decurrent, scarcely emarginate, white ; 
substance white, tough, cartilaginous. 
Gregarious on charred ground. Chingford, Nov., 1883. 
Near Ag. coffeatus. 
Agaricus (Collybia) eustygius, Cooke Illus. Supp. t. 1185. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, then plane, sometimes depressed 
(3-5 c.m. broad), even, smooth, becoming shining when dry, tough, 
dingy-white, a little darker about the disc, margin thin, smooth, occa- 
sionally flexuous, stem stuffed, rarely hollow, attenuated down- 
wards into a rooting base (5-8 c.m. long, 6-8 m.m. thick), white 
above, sprinkled with small punctate scales, darker below, and 
