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Agaricus 1. In the Shale, Pth. Duncanser, 8 June 1839. Aggregate and clustered. Stems comparatively contracted at the base, expanded at the top, and slightly flattened. Pale brown, whitish at the margin. Stem highly curved, fistulose, fine, very pale brown, covered with a whitish farina, elevated above, tub bulbous, rising from a dense mass of brownish white branching, twisted fine fibers. Gills adnate, watery brown, of light brownish black and faint purpure. Stem colorless and translucent, excessively minute; Pileus scarcely exceeding 3 inch in diameter, incumbent hyphae, number: the dark angular depressions; with a very white; in its fresh state with a thick brown band near the margin, the margin strong whitish and incurved; as it dries, it becomes much paler a brownish-white, fifty white, and more uniform in color. Stem nearly 2 inches high, barely rising clothed together, firm, becoming thick like, but a shallow groove in the center; externally covered with scales, and by length gradually splitting. The stem appears disproportionally thick to the pileus, it bears. Pileus by drying becomes somewhat concave in lustre. The spores that from the foot full pores seldom were transparent and colorless, left a black of the microscopic part dry affixed adjacent and were transverse brownish-black. 2. In the main bed, Duncanser Garden June 14th 1839. Pileus 2 inches broad, at length nearly flat; with a thin band near the margin; color of the pileus during a rainy day a pale shining brown; gills and stalk much wrinkled on the second day. Stem splitting near the base; in the third day the brown band disappeared.
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Sphoria Pulvis pygmaeus, [illegible] subicularis vagitus, cinctus; at length concomitans foliis, the costa-foliosa, subinvolucra, concava black pithicera; subiculata, subspissulata, glumula 4-lobata, lenta, elliptical. At the top of each stem, found near Beauly, 17 March 1839. Scallion [illegible] cinctus, in a framework or blackish thin cinctus subicularis. at length concava, the Sphoria subiculata, by two leaves, elliptical in appearance, but often conical, and angular in shape and size; sometimes a pappilla is distinct of shrewdness, and sometimes a black groove on its summit of the Sphoria has cinctus; within it, the fulvipes subicularis is a plantain, slightly tawny map, in which three diverging from it have two leaves are placed well there and many others like [illegible] that contain each a series of glumulae; then when [illegible] [illegible] — an erect species within this genus, lenta, and 4-lobata and are elliptical in figure about 40's their as long as they are broad. Sph. betulina, L.29, cinctulo-glandulata, glumulae subconfluent, black, oblong. [illegible] subicularis, rugoso-punctata, containing spiral pithicera, office none. Each glumula contains of a near its base several (2-4) pithicera; we have a blackish valet chryseus over them; pithicera lined with a whitish membrane, containing a planeous gelatinous mass, in which an oblique slightly convex [illegible] from Sphoria. Sphora electrical transparent. In the closely layer above it, pithicerae were found globular vesicles, small thin; the pithicerae, of reddish-brown, semi-transparent, as a rule probably accidental. Found in the decaying expired timber of an old ash tree at Dunkerlin, March 1839.
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Rysticium pulicare, Doy, on oak at Achna brook 7th April 1839 or arbustus at Dumfries 14th April 1839 Gen. Char. Perithecia elliptic or elongated, with a simple longitudinal fissure above. Sporidia cylindrical and with numerous filaments in a pale gelatinous or carmine substance, fixed at the base, slightly curved, free above. Sporidioles in one or two rows along the perithecia. If the superficial elliptic or oblong, longitudinally substituted, black, lips entire, disc circular. Scallded, and grey in different directions or nearly parallel and crowded. Sometimes a pale substitution in every thin layer is indicated but it may be merely the colour of the dead cuticle. Internally it is composed very like to an Ochyrophaea, but the cylindrical cells, decorated in carmine matter, are free and the Sporidioles (Sporidioles?) are 3-riptate. The large cylindrical cells seem to contain 2 series of cells (or Sporidioles). In a tubulus, the Perithecia were emergent, plainly raising up the cuticle previous to its rupture and they were more parallel and longer as well as more crowded. The cuticle thinner off the Perithecia's appeared rolled and lessile. Rysticium pinaster, (Schrad.), a branch of Pinus sylvestris, The Mountain 18th April 1839. Glophyllous, immutate-crowned, stalk elongated, black, opening with a linear orifice, disc black. The Sporidioles arise in each side a constricted ring off on the perithecia. The circumvallation at a little distance from the base by a singular black line. Area laminar oblong. Sporidia elliptic.