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that the lamellæ are seen through its substance, of a dull orange colour.
LameUce free, contiguous to each other, white, at length reddish-purple,
in decay changing to black, and deliquescing along with the pileus. Stipes
smooth, long, erect, cylindrical, white, with an annular moveable veil;
hollow, but with a cord of filaments in the cavity; somewhat bulbous at
the base, and terminating below the bulb in a short attenuated radicular
process.
A very handsome agaric, and very satisfactorily characterised
; indeed, I do not know any with which it can be confounded.
In decay, like all those of the division in which it is
placed, it melts into an inky black fluid. I f this fluid (according
to B u l l i a r d ) be boiled with a little water and a few
cloves, to prevent it becoming mouldy in keeping, and passed
through a filtre, we shall have an excellent bistre-coloured ink
for the use of the pencil. It may be procured in any quantity
by collecting the fungus, which discharges the fluid spontaneously.
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All the fg tire s are o f the natural size, and, except the htver one, represent the
fungus in different states.