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base of an ash, St. John’s, Worcester, 30th Oct., 1901. Mr 
Carleton Rea. Intermediate in character between P. squarrosa an 
P. spectabilis, from which it is distinguished by its very large size 
which is always constant, by the scales of the pileus being less 
squarrose than the former but much more revolute than the latter 
by the flesh of the stem being ferruginous, by the deeply strane 
apex of the stem and the tawny colour of the base, by the very 
broad sinuato-decurrent gills, by the almost fugacious ring, and by 
the size and shape of the spores. I have observed this species at 
Murthley Castle, Killerton, near Exeter, and other stations. 
Galera spicula Lasch, n. 580. Fr. Hym. Eur., p. 268. 
Pileus membranaceous, 5-15 mm. across, conico-campanulate then 
expanded, brown ochre, smooth, hygrophanous, striate when moist, 
flocculose when dry and atomate. Stem 2-3 cm. high by 2-3 mm, 
thick, hollow, thickened at the base, firm, white and densely covered 
with white flocci. Gills adnate, ventricose 1*5-2 mm. wide, ochraceous 
then cinnamon. Spores 6-8 x 44 smooth, cinnamon. 
On cocoa-nut fibre. Oakden, Kidderminster, 22nd Nov., 1902. 
Mr. D. P. Goodwin. 
Easily distinguished from its allies by its smaller size and white 
floccose stem. 
Coprinus Bresadole Schulz. Hedwigia Vol. 24 (1885), p. 136. 
Yorkshire. Naturalist, Nov., 1902, p. 355. 
Coprinus velox Godey. Gilléts Champ. France. Hym., p. 614, 
with fig. 
On horse dung, Kew. Massee and Salmon, l.c., p. 61. 
Hygrophorous bicolor B. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. XI. p. 565. 
Yorkshire. Naturalist, Nov., 1902, p. 356. 
Merulius Guillemoti Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. de Fr., Vol. X., p. 63. 
Pileus 18 cm. wide, g cm. deep, and 4-5 cm. thick, white, 
dimidiate, imbricated, smooth, becoming greyish with age. Flesh 
cinereous white, with fuscous zones. Hymenium gyrose, subgela- 
tinous, fulvous, pulverulent with the spores. Spores oblong-ovate, 
ferruginous, 2-3 guttulate 10-11 x 5-6. 
On a post of stand, Cricket Ground, Worcester, 6th June, 1902. 
Mr. Carleton Rea. 
It is probable that this species has been overlooked and has been 
referred to /achrymans; it, however, is distinguished from the latter 
by the thick, well developed imbricate and dimidiate pileus, and by 
the larger spores containing 2-3 gutte. 
