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NEW OR CRITICAL BRITISH FUNGI. 
ANNULARIA, Schulz. 
Pileus regular, fleshy ; gills free from the stem, and with the 
spores flesh-coloured at maturity ; stem central, furnished with a 
persistent ring ; volva absent. 
Known at once among the Bhodosporas by the ringed stem. 
Annularia levis ( Krorrib .), Schulz. 
Pileus about 2 in. across, convex, thin, expanded, very obtuse, 
pure white or the disc with a brownish tinge, even, either per- 
fectly glabrous or broken up into very minute squamules ; flesh 
2-3 lines thick, rather firm, white ; gills free and distant from the 
stem, 2-3 lines broad in front, thin, margin entire, rather crowded, 
for a long time white, then salmon-colour ; spores broadly elliptical, 
with a basal apiculus, smooth, 1-guttulate, salmon-colour, 6-7x4 
P ; stem about 2 in. long, base clavate, attenuated upwards, 3-4 
lines thick at the apex, often incurved, hollow, even, smooth, silky, 
pure white, ring rather distant, persistent, becoming loose, white, 
the erect margin rather timid. 
Annularia levis , Schulzer, Verb. (Ester. Zool. Bot. Gesell., 
1868, p. 49. 
Agaricus levis , Krombh., pt. iv., p. 16, tab. 26, f. 16-17. 
The species described above agrees with Krombholz’s figure and 
description in every respect, except that the surface of the pileus 
was in some specimens broken up into minute, more or less, 
squarrose squamules. In other specimens, however, it was 
absolutely glabrous, hence the remark by Fries that the present 
differs from Agaricus cretaceus in the absolutely glabrous pileus 
requires qualification; the spores of A. cretaceus are, however, 
smaller, of a different shape and colour, the gills also become brown. 
The figure of Lepiota Schulzeri , Fries, in Kalchbrenner’s “ Icon. 
Sel. Hym. Hung./’ Tab. 2, Fig. 2, corresponded so accurately with 
my specimens when the gills were white, as did also the ac- 
companying text, that I had no hesitation in referring my specimens 
to that species, and was very much astonished to find two days 
afterwards that the gills in my specimens had become pink, and 
that a copious mass of salmon-coloured spores had been shed. The 
gills in the above quoted figure are of a decided yellowish pink, but 
this point is not noted by Fries, although this specific character 
was drawn up from those figures. The spores in S. Schulzeri also 
agree with those of S. levis according to the measurements given 
by Kalchbrenner. Certainly quite distinct from A. cretaceus. 
On the ground among shrubs. Kew Gardens. 
Agaricus (Flammula) rubicundula, Rea. 
Pileus 4-6 cm. broad, fleshy, convex, then plane, often splitting 
at the margin, viscid at first and innately fibrillose, soon becoming 
smooth, yellow, then tinged with red and at length tawny orange ; 
margin at first veiled, veil white then yellowish, finally reddening 
like the rest of the pileus ; stem 5-6 cm. long, 1|-2J cm. thick, 
