NOTES ON TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE ROYAL 
HERBARIUM, KEW. 
By G. Massee. 
The following measurements of spores and cystidia of Agarics 
belonging to the section Rhodosporce are all drawn up from type 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium: — 
Ag. (Bletraria) insignis, CJce. Sr Mass ., Sacc.Syll., V. ix. ( suppl .), No. 
348. 
Spores elliptic, base obliquely apiculate, smooth, 10 X 6 p ; no 
cystidia. 
Ag. (Annularia) insignis, Che. Sp Mass., Grev., xvm., p. 3. 
Spores globose, base minutely apiculate, smooth, 5 /x ; no 
cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) Thwaitesii, Hooh.fil. , in BerJc. Bee. Fung., No. 286. 
Spores elliptical, smooth, 7-8 x 4 p ; no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) pseudo-volvaceus, B. Sp Br., Linn. Soc. Journ., Vol. 
ix., p. 530. 
Spores elliptical, smooth, 5x3 /x ; no cystidia. 
Ag- (Volvaria) Loveianus, Berh., Fngl. Flora, Vol. Y.,p. 104. 
Spores elliptic, oblong, smooth, 4-5 X 2*5-3 p; no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) Taylori, BerTc., Out1.,p. 140. 
Spores subglobose or broadly elliptical, averaging 5 x 4 p, 
smooth ; no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) diplasius, B. Sf Br., Linn. Trans., xvn., p. 151, t. 33, c. 
Spores elliptical, with an oblique basal apiculas, smooth, 
7-8 x4 p ] no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) apalotrichus, B S{ Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. xi., p. 
530. 
Spores minute, broadly elliptical, smooth, 3x2 p ; no 
cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) coleatus, B Sf Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. XI., p. 530. 
Spores elliptical, smooth, 3x2 p ; no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) microcoelius, B. Sf Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. xi ,,p. 
531. 
Spores globose, minutely apiculate at the base, smooth, 3*5-4 p ; 
no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) geaster. B. Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. xi., p. 530. 
Spores elliptical, smooth, base apiculate, 7xl/x; no cystidia. 
Ag. (Volvaria) glandiformis, B. 4*' Br., Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. xi., 
p. 531. 
Spores broadly elliptical, smooth, 3*5 x 2 /x; no cystidia. 
