being always ereft. Lady Arden favoured me with
a fpecimen of a curious variety, with the ikin of the
pileus cracked into fquares, leaving white reticulations
between.
I cannot help fufi^efting that the following four
fpecies of Dr. Withering will, on mature examination,
prove varieties of that now before us, viz. Umbracuhim,
p. 289, agrejiis, ihlA. gracilis, p. 313, fpkndens,
p. 334.—For the ift fee his reference to Batfch, t. 4,
The 2d feems to defcribe imperfedl fpecimens gathered
late in the feafon and in wet weather. The third exprefles
the ftate of its maturity in fine weather ; and
the 4th as I have found it when the gluten is dried up
after a dewy morning. In the early part of the feafon,
about Auguft, I have obferved a thick gluten on the
pileus at 7 in the morning, changed by 11 into a varniih,
quite refplendent in the fun, the heat of which
hailening the progrefs of the fungus to maturity, the
gills become reddilh, and the feeds are found, as Dr.
Withering defcribes them, at their edges. Many Agarics,
efpecially the parafitic ones, are difpofed to have
long roots. 1 have found that of A, radicatus 12 inches
in length, and Mr. Relhan fent a ftill longer fpecimen
to the Linnsean Society.
T A B . XLIX.
TRICHIA DENCDATA. Bull. t. 502. With.
CLATHRUS DENUDATUS. Linn. Sp. PL 1649.
Hudf. 630.
POUND in the crevices of flumps of trees, and other
damp places, growing in all direftions. At firft it
might be taken for a group of fmall infefts' eggs
being white and nearly feflile, but it is of the confiftence
of cream. It next acquires a crimfon hue,
with a partial Ikin, which feparates at length, difclofing
a woolly texture replete with fine powder.
T A B . L.
TRICHIA NUBA. With. 477.
T. AXIFERA. Bull. t. 471. f . I,
T. TYPHOIDES. Ibid. f . a.
•CLATHRas NUDUS. Linn. Sp. PL 1649. 630.
T H E progrefs of growth in this fpecies is fimilar to
the laft; but the long form of its head, and the continuation
of the ftalk through its woolly fubllance, are
fufiicient marks of diilinftion,
T A B . LI.
HELVELLA ESCULENTA.
PHALLUS ESCULENTUS. Linn. Sp.PL 1648. Hudf.(,%i).
With. 447.
T H I S varies a little in fliape and colour. Mr. Jacob
Rayer found fomc bufF-coloured fpecimens on a bank
iu Kent. I have gathered plenty of the blackiili kind
at Newington, Surrey, on an old garden ground among
iligar-bakers rubbifli.
This fpecies furely belongs much more properly to
the genus of Helvella than to that of Phallus, efpecially
if we confider its texture, duration, or qualities.
It is well known by the name of Morel, and much
eftcemed as an ingredient in fauces and foups, for
which purpofe it may be preferved dried for many
months or even years. The people employed in gathering
Morels in Germany, having obferved that
they grew moil: plentifully where wood had been
burned, proceeded to promote their propagation by
fetting fire to the woods, till it was found necelTary
to forbid that pradtice by law.
T A B. LII.
LYCOPERDON EPIDENDRUM. Bull t. 503. With.
468. Linn. sp. PL 1654. Hudf. 645.
D I F F E R S from the generality of I.ycoperdons in
Iieing foft and pulpy when young, fomething like
Reticulana Jeptica, With. 470, defcribed by Mr. Woodward,
who has alfo obferved the plant now before us.
T A B . LIII.
ylLCIDIUM F u s c uM. Relh. ti. 1199. Linn. Syjl. Kat.
ed. GmeL 1473. Gent. Mag. for May 1793, 414.
LYCOPERDON ANEMONES. Pult. in Tr. of Linn. Soc.
v. 2. 311
I BEG leave to refer the reader to Dr. Pulteney's
learned obfervations on this ftmgus, or one at leaft
nearly related to it, in the Tranlaftions of the Lin