272 FUNGI OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BIRMINGHAM. 
some species and confirming others. It is difficult to draw up such a 
list as this without remarking how utterly incongruous are the 
various species included under the so-called “ Coniomycetes.” The 
Sphaeronemei and Melanconiei should form a group apart, placed near 
to the Pyrenomycetes. The last three orders, constituting the leaf- 
fungi proper, the Hypodermiece, should be distinct from these ; while 
the Torulacei are nothing more than the simplest type of the Hypho- 
mycetes, and are in fact absolutely undistinguishable from some of 
the genera which are ranked with the latter. It is to be hoped a list 
of British Fungi (a “ London Catalogue ” in fact) will soon be pub¬ 
lished, by which British Mycologists may become more generally 
acquainted with the modern systematic arrangements, in place of the 
obsolete and unscientific one to which we are at prese:it condemned. 
I may add to this list that I have eaten this year Ag. nebularis, 
Ag. rhacodes, Coprinus comatus, C. atravientarius, Hygrophoms pratensis, 
and Helvella crispa, all of which are delicious ; Ag. ulmariiis I have 
tried, but would not touch it again ; it resembles underdone pork fat, 
if my specimens were characteristic of the species. 
AGAEICINI. 
Agaricus (Amanita) mappa, Batsch. Sutton Park ; Trickley Coppice. 
Sept., Oct. 
Ag. (Am.) muscarius, Linn. Sutton Park ; Edgbaston Park; Trickley 
Coppice. Forma “ minor, sine verrucis ” occurs occasionally. 
Sept., Oct. 
Ag. (Am.) nitidus, Fr. Coleshill Pool. I find forms of this which it 
is difficult to distinguish from Ag. mappa. Sept. 
Ag. (Lepiota) procerus. Scop. Edgbaston Park. Oct. 
Ag. (Lep.) carcharias, Pers. Water Orton; Trickley Coppice; New 
Park, Middleton. Oct. 
Ag. (Tricholoma) stans, Fr. Edgbaston Park, amongst trees. Agreeing 
with Cooke’s Illustrations, pi. 198. The two forms mentioned by 
Fries occurred together. Oct. 
Ag. (Trich.) virgatus, Fr. Coleshill Pool; Edgbaston Park. Sept., Oct. 
Ag. (Clitocybe) opacus. With. Sutton Park. Besembling Ag. ceriis- 
satus, but differing in the presence of an umbo, and in the pileus 
being covered with a shining floccose film. Oct. 
Ag. (Clitoc.) inversus. Scop. This is the species recorded as Ag. Jlac- 
cidus, Sow., in the “ Midland Naturalist,” Vol. V., p. 234 (and 
repeated, by a clerical error, on page 250), from Sutton Park. 
, Sept., Oct. 
Ag. (Clitoc.) metachrous, Fr. Trickley Coppice. Oct. 
Ag. (Clitoc.) ditopus, Fr. Edgbaston Park. Oct. 
Ag. (Clitoc.) fragrans. Sow. Hints Wood. Sept. 
Ag. (Collybia) dryophilus. Bull. Sutton Park; Coleshill Pool; Four 
Oaks Park ; New Park, Middleton. Sept., Oct. 
Ag. (Myc.) purus, Pers. Kenilworth, in a copse. Sept. 
Ag. (Myc.) pseudopurus, Cooke. Illustrations, pi. 158. Edgbaston 
Park ; Trickley Coppice. Oct. 
Ag. (Myc.) pullatus, Cooke. Illustrations, pi. 237. Coleshill Pool. 
Remarkable for the contrast between the pure-white gills and 
purple-black pileus. Sept. 
Ag. (Omphalia) muralis, Sow. On a wall amongst moss, Edgbaston. 
Nov. 
Ag. (Omph.) fibula. Bull. Amongst moss, Warley Woods. Aug. 
Ag. (Pleurotus) fimbriatus. Bolt. In a garden, Ilandsworth. Oct. 
Ag. (Pluteus) nanus, Pers. On stumps, Four Oaks Park, Sutton. Sept. 
