Amanita cistetorum and Psathyrella liciosae, two new Mediterranean species

Amanita cistetorum and Psathyrella liciosae, two noteworthy Agaricales from southern Italy, are described as new. Amanita cistetorum is a greyish memb er of the subgenus Vaginaria, section Ovigerae, the distinctive characters of which are the subglobose spores and the structure mostly filamentous of its veil. Apparently a mycorrhizal symbiont of Cistus, the new species has so far been collected only in Sardinia. Psathyrella liciosas, a tiny, psamm ophilous species of the subsgenus Psathyra, is characterized by the spores lacking an evident germ-pore and is well distinct from the taxa of the sect ion Hydrophilae by the comparatively longer spores and the peculiar cystidi a the content of which is refringent when mounted in ammonium hydroxide.