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NEW AND RARE BRITISH HYMENOMYCETOtIS FUNGI. 251
an Apple-tree, branch 9 ft. from the ground, fungus 4 ft. 6 in. from
the trunk. Staplehurst, Kent.
A. (Pleurotm) euosmus, Berk. This curious and little-known
species has been most abundant about London aiul elsewhere this
s[)ring ; in every instance that has come to my knowledge it has been
found upon Elm. I saw it near Tottenham and other places, growing
in abundance with A. ostreatus, Jacq., from which it is quite distinct.
Its cartilaginous stem, tinted spores, and powerful aromatic odour,
point rather to the genus Lent'mm than Agaricus. On elm stumps,
Mr. Broome's garden, Batheaston. Elm stumps, Street, Somerset,
Mr. J. A. Clarke, who writes me to say it is esculent, and that he has
repeatedly eaten it. In the account given of this plant by Dr. Bad-
ham, it is said to be dangerous.
A. (Pleurotus) salignus, Hoffm. Infesting dead Willow- trees side
of New Kiver, Stoke Newington, 1868, 1869.
A. (Pleurotus) atro-caruleus, Fr. On a rotten stump. Bilton
Wood, near Teignmouth, Devon ;
Mrs. Gulson.
A. (Panfeolus) retirugh, Batsch. Common on cow-dung. Epping
Forest, Feb. 1869. Pileus marked with prominent veins, very dif-
ferent from any other PancEolus.
Coprinus radians, Fr. This species I found growing luxuriantly
May 22, 1869, on the damp, sloping ceiling in the scullery of the
residence of my friend, G, Manville Fenn, Esq., Fyfield, near Ongar.
Lentinus tigrinus, Fr. I gathered several specimens of this rare
plant, in company with my friend Mr. Broome, from a rotten, mossy
trunk (probably Ash) in a pond at Fyfield, near Ongar, Essex. Spores
white; smell disagreeable. May 22, 1869.
L. lepideus, Fr. This rare species of which I once found a single
specimen near Tottenham, has appeared in several places this summer,
and, witb one exception, always under railway bridges. Dr. Chapman,
of Abergavenny, found it growing on a railway bridge at that place in
July ; it came up through the roadway and its origin could not be
ascertained from above. On Dr. M'CuUough examining the under side
of the bridge he found thirty or forty specimens, all old and black
from the smoke from the engines, growing from between the fir plank-
ing. Shortly after, the same species was found under four or five
bridges about Abergavenny by Dr. Steele. On July 29, Dr. Bull
found it growing at Hereford, "from between the timbers under-
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