Messrs. Berkeley and Broome on British Fungi. 17 been already furnislied by the genus Phalansterium, Cien-kowski, as reported by Prof. Clark* ; but a reference to the original description and illustration in Schultze's ' Arcliiv/ Bd. vi. S. 4, 1870, has elicited that this colony form is com-posed of the more simple flagellate Holostomatous monads, and not of the collar-bearing or Discostomatous varieties. Should this missing link be discovered, it will, while closely related to and forming a natural group of the true sponges, occupy the same relation towards the Gymnozoidal or free and indepen-dent Discostomatous types as the social and slime-immersed genus Oj>hrydium does to Vorttcella, Vaginicola, or other naked and solitary representatives of the higher ciliate order of the Infusoria. 4 Marine Terrace, St. Helier's, Jersey, Oct. 12, 1877. II. — Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berke-ley, M.A., F.L.S., and C. E. Become, Esq., F.L.S. [Continued from ser. 4. vol. xvii. p. 145.] [Plates III. & IV.] 1631. Agaricus (Amanita) magnijicus, Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 25; Fl. Dan. t. 2146. In fir-woods. Glamis, Rev. J. Stevenson, no. 707. Our plant differs from the figure quoted above in having a bulbous base. Pileus campanulate, even, with scattered mealy patches ; stem attenuated upwards, transversely scaly. Whole plant dark liver-red, with the exception of the white adnexed gills. Allied to A. rubescens, but quite distinct, though variable. Fl. Dan. tab. 2148. fig. 2, which is referred by Fries to this species, has, like the agaric before us, a bulbous base. The wartless variety of A. muscarius occurred last autumn more than once at Coed Coch, and was very beautiful. 1632. A. (Lepiota) rhacodes^ subsp. puellaris, Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 29. In woods. Coed Coch. Not uncommon. 1633. A. (Lepiota) hiornatus, B. & Br., Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 502. In great abundance in a melon-frame, Arthingworth, * Silliman's ' American .Journal,' Feb. 1871 : Ann. & Map;. Nat. Hist. March 1871. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 5. Vol i. 2
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