NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
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Sclexodexxis majuscula, Cke. Mass. 
Erumpent, then superficial, large, scattered, tough, cups turbinate, 
then expanded, 5-7 m.m. broad, clove-brown externally, margin 
distinct, a little incurved, rugose when dry, smooth ; disc dark 
purple brown, nearly plane; stem expanded upwards into the cup, 
2 mm. long. Asci cylindrical, sporidia elliptical, a little attenuated 
at each end, triseptate, hyaline, 15 x 7 p, paraphyses filiform. 
On oak bark. Carlisle. 
EXOTIC FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
Lepiota ochxospoxa, Clce. Sf Mass. 
Pileus fleshy, large, 5 to 15 c.m. broad, pallid, soft, ovate, then 
expanded, umbonate, cuticle breaking into subpersistent darker 
scales, especially about the umbo ; flesh 2 c.m. thick at the disc, 
thin at the margin, and faintly striate, stem hollow, erect, 6-15 
c.m. long, attenuated from the sub-bulbous base, longitudinally 
striate, ring large, spreading, moveable, gills remote, ventricose, 
moderately broad, yellowish, becoming cinnamon when dry. Spores 
ovate, apiculate at the base, 8 x 6 p, ochraceous by transmitted 
light. Odour and taste pleasant. 
On the ground. Coast Lands. British Guiana. (Jenman, 
6359, 6426.) 
“ Beaching to eight inches in diameter, highly fragrant like the 
best mushroom, and equally edible.” Many points of resemblance 
to Lepiota procera , but the spores are as distinctly coloured as 
those of many Cortinarii. 
Scutellinia strigosa, Pers. Syn., 648. 
Sessile, small, cups at first subglobose, then concave, 1-2 m.m. 
diam., externally strigose, dark brown, disc subochraceous. Asci 
cylindrical, sporidia elliptical, becoming rough, 20-24 x 10 /x, 
paraphyses thickened above. Peziza fuscoatra, var., Fries Syst. 
Myc. 
On the ground. France. 
External hairs densely beset, 150 long, 8 p thick at the base, 
brown, septate, pallid at the attenuated apex. This cannot be re- 
ferred to S . fusco-atra , Beb. 
Dasyscypha aleurodes, Cooke. 
Scattered or gregarious, ochraceous white, cups stipitate, at first 
clavate, then cup-shaped, externally clad with delicate deciduous 
hairs mixed with mealy granules, margin entire, stem cylindrical, 
equal below, expanding above into the base of the cup, asci 
cylindrically clavate, sporidia cylindrical, straight, 8-10 x 1 p, 
paraphyses filiform, slender. 
