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NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
( Continued from p. 25.) 
Agaricus (Amanita) aridus, Fr. Hum. Fur. 25. Fr. Icon. t. 12, f. 2. 
Sacc. Syll. 40. 
Pileus flattened, thin, obtuse, grey, naked (6-7 c.m. broad), 
margin sulcate, flesh white ; stem stuffed, then hollow at the apex, 
attenuated upwards, nearly equal, almost smooth (8-10 c.m. long), 
ring distant ; gills attenuated, adnate. 
On the ground. Dunstable. ( W. G. Smith.) 
Agaricus (Lepiota) nympharum. KalcTi. Hunq. t. 2, f. 1. Fr. Hum. 
Fur. 33. Sacc. Syll. 122. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, torn into con- 
centric scales, wholly white, or with a brownish disc (5-8 c.m. 
broad) ; stem hollow, equal, smooth (swollen at the base), floccosely 
mealy above the distant ring (8 c.m. long, 1 c.m. thick) ; gills 
attenuated behind, free, white. 
On the ground. Warwickshire. (Mrs. Russell, fide W. G . 
Smith.) 
Agaricus (Leptonia) anatinus, Lasch. No. 561. Fr. Hym. Fur. 
201. Sacc. Syll. 2921. 
Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate, with a darker umbo, longi- 
tudinally fibrillose and squamulose, greyish brown (1-2 in. diam.). 
Stem somewhat hollow, becoming blue (especially at the apex), at 
first pruinose, then scaly-fibrillose, even at the apex (not punctate 
with black) ; gills adnexed, seceding, broad, whitish, then flesh- 
colour. Spores oblong, 10x7 fx. 
Under oaks. Near Alresford, Hants. 
Cortinarius (Inoloma) argutus. Fries Hym. Fur. 359. Sacc. Syll. 
3785. 
Pileus compact, conical, then flattened, rather gibbous, silky- 
fibrillose, ochraceous (8-10 c.m. broad) ; stem solid, ventrieose, 
fibrously scaly, white, then yellowish , base distinctly rooting (8 c.m. 
long, 2 c.m. thick) ; gills adnate, rather distant, white, then clay- 
coloured. Spores 14-16 x 9 /x. 
On the ground. Alresford, Hants. 
Forothelium Friesii, Mont. 
The only British specimen in Herb. Berk, is evidently not that 
species, but Gorticium porosum, B. & C., from Wothorpe. Hence 
the species cannot be retained as British unless another locality for 
it can be authenticated. 
Clavaria rufescens, Schceff. Icon. t. 288. Fr. Hym. Fur. 670. 
Trunk thick, elastic, tan-coloured, very much branched, branches 
multifid, crowded, somewhat fastigiate, even, tan-colour, with red 
tips. 
On the ground. New Forest. 
