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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
lose squamules, violet at the apex, veil white, sub-annulate ; gills 
adnate, broad, somewhat distant, brown- violet, then cinnamon. 
Forres. Rev. J. Keith. 
* Lactarius mammosus. Fr. Hymeno., p . 434. 
Holme Lacy. 1879. 
* Lactarius picinus. Fr. Hymeno., p. 435. 
H7. Lactarius lilacinus, Lasch. Fr. Hymeno., p. 435. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then depressed, papillate, dry, floc- 
cose, granulose, zoneless, lilac-rosy ; stem stuffed, then hollow, 
mealy- white, pallid; gills adnate, rather distant, pale-flesh colour; 
milk acrid, white. 
Fragile, copiously milky, pileus 2in. broad, becoming pale. — Fr. 
Hawthornden, near Edinburgh. 
118. Lactarius ichoratus. Fr. Hymeno ., p. 436. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, from rigid becoming soft, piano-depressed, 
unequal, smooth, glabrous, opaque, fulvous ; gills adnate, somewhat 
crowded, from white becoming ochraceous ; milk sweet, white. 
Hereford. Oct., 1879. 
119. Hydnum scabrosum. Fr. Hymeno., p. 599. 
Pileus compactly fleshy, at first turbinate, then plane, ferru- 
ginous-umber, at first tomentose then scabrous with flocci fasci- 
culated into crowded minute squamules ; stem short, punctate with 
decurrent spines, cinerascent ; spines greyish-brown, white at the 
apices. 
On the earth in pine forests. Forres. Rev. J. Keith. Sept., 
1879. 
The blackish base to the stem is a striking character in this 
species. 
* Sistotrema confluens. Pers. 
This rare fungus occurred in three localities near Forres this 
year — Altyre Woods, Chapelton Wood, and Rothiemurcbus, in 
September. 
120. Clavaria incarnata. Weinm. Fines Hymeno., p. 678. 
Gregarious, simple, solid, cylindrical, flesh-colour, whitish- 
pruinose, purple within. 
Varies from -|-1^ inch long. — Fr. 
Terrington, Norfolk. Oct., 1879. 
121. Raestelia carpophila. Bagnis. in Thumen My cotheca Universalis. 
Ho. 1326. 
On the fruit of the common hawthorn. 
August, 1879. Kings Lynn. 
Although careful search was made, not a single specimen of the 
common form — B. lacerata — was observed. In the affected fruit 
the petals were still white and adherent, though they had all been 
shed for some time on the rest of the tree. 
122. IVXorchella gigas. Pers. Coolce's My cogr. , t. 86, /. 323. 
Pileus conical, margin free, somewhat undulated, brown, ribs 
forming perpendicularly elongated cells, anastomosing ; stem 
squamulose, hollow, enlarged near the base; asci cylindrical ; 
