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RECENT BRITISH FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
WITH PLATE I. 
Amanita cariosa Fries. Hym. Eur. p. 24. 
Pileus convex, then plane, soft, even, unequally clad with mealy 
patches (35-44 in.), flesh white, stem stuffed. then hollow (4-5 in. 
long, ? in. thick), fragile, nearly equal, smooth ; superior ring, at 
length falling away; gills adnate, then seceding, and free spores 10 
long. Sacc. Syll., 32. Gonn. and Rabh., t. 9, f. 3. 
In woods. Huddersfield, September, 1895. 
Fries places it near 4. spissa. 
Schulzeria lycoperdoides Cooke and Massee. 
Pileus convex, then expanded, soft, tan-coloured, beset with darker 
pyramidal warts, resembling those of some species of Lycoperdon, and 
often splitting at the base margin appendiculate, stem equal, solid, 
minutely fibrillose, whitish ; gills rather crowded, free, white. 
On the ground, under cedars. Kew. 
Pileus 14 in. broad. Stem 2 in. long. Spores oval. 5 x 4u. 
Armillaria caligata Viviani. F. Ital., t. 35. 
Smell strong. Pileus compact, convex, then plane, tawny, weasel- 
colour, spotted with adpressed silky squamules of the same colour ; 
stem solid, beneath the persistent membranaceous ring zoned with 
brown squamules; gills emarginate, white. Sacc. Syll., No. 266. 
Arm. focalis, minor. Cooke Illus., t. 245. 
On the ground, chiefly pine woods. 
Stem 3-4 in. long, nearly 1 in. thick. Pileus 3 in. Spores glo- 
bose 3-4u diam. Doubtless 4. causetta Barla. should be included in 
the same species. 
Collybia pulla Schaeff., t. 25. Fries Ep., p. 114. 
Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, even 
smooth, hygrophanous ; stem hollow, twisted, somewhat striate, soft, 
naked; gills adnexed, rather broad, transversely pellucid-striate. 
whitish. Sacc. Syll., 767. Bolton, t. 15. 
Under birch, &c. Highbeech, Epping. 
