the upper ones lofe their form. At length the under
furface becomes covered with diftinft and feparate
tubes, entire at their orifice {Jig. 3), turning brown and
emitting feeds at their edges, which often hang in feftoons
on little cobwebs formed by fome infeft of the
fpider kind. The fvuigus afterwards either rots or
turns black in decay.
It varies in fliape and fize, but commonly refembles
liver, being faturated with a blood-coloui'ed fluid, which
adds to the refemblance. Its tafte is like that of the
common muiliroom, Jg. campeJJris, and fome perfons
reckon it nearly as good.
T A B . LIX.
P E Z I Z A ACETABULUM. ?rith. 436. Bull. t. 485. f . 4.
I HAVE been favoured with recent fpecimens of this
Peziza by the Rev. Mr. Budftone, who found them at
Sand Hutton near York, growing in the earth at the
bottom of a lhady hedge, not, as ufually reported, on
rotten wood.
T A B . LX.
S P H J E R I A MILITARIS.
C L A V A R I A MILITARIS. Linn. Sp. PI. 1652. Hudf.
638. With. 450.
F O U N D in Kenfington gardens in autumn, moft
frequently among mofs {Bryum undulatum), growing
from a periihed chryfalis, or the unquickened remains
of a fpider's neft. It varies in form and fize.
T A B . LXI.
AGARICOS PILEOLARIUS. Bull. t. 400.
CASEUS. With. V. 3. 287.
SUBIMVOLUTUS. Butfch. t.
I T feems by Bulliard and other writers, that this plant
has not been obferved by them in the later or advanced
ftate, when it becomes remarkably cupped. Lady
Arden favoured me with fpecimens from Nork-
Park, near Epfom, Surry, and I have found others in
moft of the woods about London in Oftober and November.
Dr. Withering's reference to Bulliard and
Bolton may be right; but I cannot agree with him in
quoting Schaeffer t. 78 for this fpecies. It varies a little
in colour, the pileus being often greyifii. The ftipes
has long pale blotches of a reddifli brown.
T A B . LXIL
AGARICUS PALMATUS. '. t. 216. With. V. 3. 341.
T n E f t a t i o n o f t h i s plant is well defcribed by Bulliard
in Withering " growing on the fquared fides of timber,"
&c. It appears to be a conftant annual. I found
it on the fide of an elm that had been fawed down, three
5'ears together, in November, in the decaying ftate. It
feems allied to Withering's A-fxfidus.