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250 NKW AND KARK BRITISH HYMENOMYCKTOUS FUNGI,
In terra humosa subnuda ; in aggeribus Scanise vulgaris, Upsalia? in
hortis passim, at in silvaticoimontanis nunquam vidimus. Stipes
solidus, admodum rigidus, demum fibrosus, apice pruinatus, extus
intusque fuscus. Ceterum admodum variabilis ; interdum brevissimus,
3-3 lin. tantum altus et crassus, deorsum attenuatus ; vulgo uncialis,
}uiiic bulbosus, nunc seqnalis, gracilior, ut inicone citata videre licet.
Pileus carnosus, mollis, e convexo applanatus, Isevis, glaber, udus
(siccus opacus), 2 unc. circiter latus, ex nmbrino expallens ; ssepe
glebis inquinatus. Caro pilei uda fuscescens, sicca albescens. Lamellae
emarginato-liberse, confertae, ventricosse, ante marginem evanescentes,
integerrimse, albidae. Mihi A. arcuato propior, quam sequenti. Affi-
nitas inter A. arcnatum, panaolum, grammopodium., melalencum,
Jnimilem (licet omnes antiquitus distinctae sint) major est, quam inter
alias Tricholomatum species ; etiam A. humilis et exscissus ex liorum
foedere. Omnes iuodori.— Fries' ' Monograpliia Hymenomycetum
Suecise.'
In June last the Rev. H. H. Gillett, of Waltham, Melton Mowbray,
sent me a few specimens of the true A. brevipes of Bulliard, a species
Avliich he had found growing in abundance the previous October on an
old heap of leaf-mould in a plantation, and in hedgerows by plantations.
It is a most interesting addition to our flora, its place being near A.
humilis, Fr. (the A. blandus of Berkeley in Eng. Fl.) and A. subpulveru-
lentus, P. ; it is, however, different from either, and, except in size, some-
what resembles A. grammopodius, Bull. Mr. Gillett informs me that last
autumn he cooked and ate many specimens, and that he found them
quite equal in flavour to A. gambosus, Fr. : to procure a spring crop
he treated the heap of leaf-mould to a dressing of salt water in the
way it is applied by Mr. Ingram (head gardener at Belvoir Castle)
after his first crop of mushrooms is over, viz. a handful of salt to
three gallons of water. This had the desired efi'ect, and it gave me
the opportunity of shovving three or four specimens at one of the
spring meetings of the Linncan Society.
The following species, some of which are very rare, have been met
with during the last twelve months, and are worthy of record :
A. (Omphalia) spJiagnicolu, Berk. ; parasitic on sphagnum. Very
wet places in bog ;
Wimbledon Common.
A. (Plenrotm) corticnlns, Fr. Very large specimen on a branch of
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