494 Mas see, — A Monograph of the genus Inocybe , Kars ten, 
Berkeley considered it as a Lepiota , whereas Fries placed it in Psalliota, and Cooke 
in Inocybe. The spores appear to be yellowish-brown and, as it were, only stained 
by the red juice which permeates every part of the Fungus. I. echinata is probably 
an introduced species in Europe, never occurring in woods, &c., but only in con- 
servatories or botanical gardens. The occurrence of specimens from Cayenne and 
S. Carolina suggest that it may be indigenous to the New World. 
(Types of Berkeley and Klotzsch examined.) 
violacea, Massee, Kew Bull., 1899, p. 169; Sacc., Syll. xvi, p. 91. 
P. campanulate then expanded and broadly umbonate, squamulose, edge 
fimbriate, violet, paler towards the margin, 1-1*5 cm.; g. sinuato-adnate, crowded, 
narrow, white then tinged rosy flesh-colour, edge fimbriate ; s. solid, equal, sub- 
fibrillose, rosy flesh-colour, apex white-scurfy, 2-3 cm. ; sp. cylindric-ovate, apiculate, 
smooth, 6 x 3-3-5 c. absent. 
On a lawn. Perak. 
Allied to I. echinata. 
rhombospora, Massee (sp. nov.). 
P. campanulate, rather acutely umbonate, fibrillose, brown, edge paler, disc 
squamulose, 2-3 cm. ; g. adnexed, rather crowded, yellowish brown ; s. fibrillose, 
brown, with white silky fibres up to the imperfect annular zone, 3-4 cm. ; sp. rhom- 
boidal, sometimes with a marked apical point, 6x5/1, compressed laterally ; 
c. absent. 
On rotten wood. India (Nilghiris). 
The specimen was collected by Berkeley’s son, and placed under ‘ undetermined 
species.’ It is now in the Kew Herbarium. 
Readily distinguished by the peculiar spores. The basidia are also ex- 
ceptional in structure, measuring 20x9-10/11; the sterigmata are reduced to 
minute papillae. 
There is an American species included in c Rav., Fung. Amer., exs. 201, ad 
terram arenosam, Darien, Florida, 201/ called Ag. Ino. maritimus. The spores 
have a more or less rhomboidal form in outline, smooth, and 4-5-5 X 4 n ; c. absent. 
This species is certainly not I. maritima. , and does not accord with any described 
species. As no diagnosis can be drawn up from the imperfectly preserved specimens, 
which are not accompanied by notes or sketches, it remains for American mycologists 
to look to this interesting form. 
If the occurrence of I. maritima in the United States turns on this species, the 
name must be deleted from the list. 
tt Gills tinged olive. 
erythroxa, De Seynes, Rech. Champ. Congo Fr., i, p. 2, tab. 1, f. 1-5 (1897); 
Sacc., Syll. xiv, p. 133. 
P. plane or subdepressed, subumbonate, margin at length irregularly reflexed, 
rusty, ornamented with pyramidal reddish spines, 1*5-2 cm. ; flesh yellowish, tough ; 
g. ventricose, free or slightly adnexed, distant, deep olive, edge paler ; s. smooth, 
yellowish, base paler, becoming hollow, 1*5 cm.; sp. elliptical, smooth, 7 X 3-4 P > 
c. absent. 
On the ground. French Congo State. 
