396 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Funyi. XXXV. — Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J, Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S., and C. E. Broome, Esq. [With two Plates.] [Continued from vol. ix. p. 387-] 662. Agaricus (Amanita) strobiliformis, Fr. Ep. p. 5 ; Bull, t. 593. On the ground on the grassy borders of woods. Laxton Park, Norths., Sept. 1852. Abundant. Pileus when young subglobose, bulb of the stem conical below, rooting, its border sometimes incised all round, sometimes even, floccose above to the edge of the pileus ; scales of pileus large, wart-like, with a brown disc and white floccose border, at length falling off. Pileus when expanded 8 or 9 inches across, at length quite smooth ; margin extending beyond the gills. Stem 6-7 inches high, 1^ inch thick, firm, solid; bulb not properly scaly ; veil large ; gills rounded behind, the shorter ones denticulate at the base. Smell and taste at first slight, at length disagreeable. This is undoubtedly the species of Vittadini and Bulliard. Too much stress must not be laid upon the incision of the bulb or its scales, for neither character is constant. 663. A. (Amanita) Ceciliae, n. s. Pileo primum semielliptico, volva murina crassiuscula rimosa, demum basi irregulariter cir-cumscissa marginata operto, dein campanulato ; margine sulcato ; stipite sursum attenuato spongioso farcto ; annulo nullo. On the ground in woods, King^s Cliffe, Aug. Sept. Pileus at first semielliptic, densely and uniformly clothed with the thick mouse-coloured volva which at length splits irregularly below from a slight prominence at the base of the stem, but by no means vaginate ; then campanulate, obtuse, 3-4 inches across, margin sulcate, dingy yellow, either quite smooth or more or less clothed with the depressed or even acutely warty remains of the volva. Stem 4 inches or more high, I of an inch thick, attenuated upwards, above silky, trans-versely or obliquely rimose, below squamulose from fragments of the volva, spongy within with occasional cavities, but by no means filled with floccose down, not truly bulbous ; ring none. Gills thick, sometimes forked or anastomosing, the shorter ones abruptly truncate behind, quite free, at length remote ; inter-stices venous. Smell none. Taste sweet. Allied to A. vaginatus, but without a distinct sheathing volva, and with the stem merely spongy within and not filled with deli-
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