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62 NEW AND RARE BRITISH HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI.
niny Park, in August 1807. It grew upon naked clay, and on rotten
wood in the last stage of decomposition, completely covering the four
sides of the pit. Mr. Broome found it the following November on a
wet bank in Epping Forest ; its duration was short in the sawpit, and
in neither locality has it since appeared.
Agaricus (Entoloma) jubatus, Tr. ; stem fleshy, glossy, striate,
and shilling, white at the base, stuffed or hollow, clothed with minute
sooty fibres; pileus fleshy, campauulate, at first acutely then obscurely
umbonate, clothed with fibres, glossy, not hygrophanous ; gills slightly
adnexed, inclined to be ventricose.
This species was also shown at Kensington last autumn by Dr. Bull
he found it growing in great abundance on Merryhill Common, and in
and near Haywood Forest, near Hereford, where I afterwards found it
myself. It grew in dense clusters, some of them taking a circular
form : young
specimens are acutely campauulate, and full-grown plants
attain a height of five or more inches, and a diameter of three or four
a small specimen is, however, selected for illustration to meet the re-
stricted size of the plate. The taste is watery, and like many other
pink-spored species, very disagreeable. I am not aware that this spe-
cies has been before published as Britisli, but I understand it was found
by the Kev. M. J. Berkeley at Ascot, a year or two ago, and Mr. Currey
informs me he found specimens on October 13, 1868, in a meadow
adjoining a house called Twisden, between Goudhurst and Kilndown,
in Sussex. Mr. Currey was kind enough to forward me several speci-
mens which precisely coiTespond with the Hereford plants.
Hygrophorus CALYPTRiT:roRMis, B. and Br. ; pileus thin, acutely
conical, lobed below, minutely inuato-fibrillose; stem white, smooth,
slightly striate, hollow ; gills rose-coloured, at length pallid, very nar-
row, acutely attenuated behind.— OutUues of Futujoloc/i/, p. 202.
This distinct and beautiful species occurred in abundance in Holme
Lacy Park last autumn^ when the first specimens were gathered by
J. Griflnth Morris, Esq., during the excursion of the Woolhope Club;
it grew amongst furze, and in open places bordering the plantations.
As it has not been figured before, our Plate may perhaps lead to its de-
tection elsewhere. It was first found, many years ago, by Mr. Broome,
on Hanham Common, near Bristol, but the habitat is now destroyed,
and the plant has disappeared from that district.
Explanations of Plate LXXXIX. :
Fig. 1, 2, 3, Lactarius coniroversus,
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