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T A B . LXVIII.
AGARICUS TiGRiNUs. Bull. t. -jo.
I HAVE been favoured with recent fpecimens of this
pretty fpecies by Thomas Walford, Efq. of Birdbrook
in Eli ex,, who gatliered them from an afli in his plantations
in September lail. Some were found growing
from the fides, fomewhat horizontally, others near the
root, upright, in cluñers or fingle. When freilr they are
very tender and eafily lacerated; when dry coriaceous,
and the ñipes is of a very folid and firm texture. I have
Ipecimens which accord fo well with Scha:ffer's Agaricus
iubipformis, tab. 248 and 249, that I think them varieties
of this fpecies. The tigrinus in the latter ñate
has ferrated gills, and much reiembles K. fqumnofus.
T A B . LXÎX.
CLAVARIA DIGITATA. Linn. Sp. PI. 1652.
SPH^RIA DIGITATA. Bull. t. 220.
FOUND frequently near the roots of old or decaying
poplars in Kenfington Gardens, and at Lambeth. I once
found fome at the root of an elder at Batterfea. They
commence growing very early in the fpring, and continue
through the himmer, ripening their capfules in
autumn annually. Though at firft fomewhat pointed,
and covered with a whitiih duft or farina, as it advances
this fungus alTumes a more conical form, and the farina
is more on the top. It finally becomes blunter, and the
head is covered with fphsrules copioufly drfcharging
a denfe black foot-like powder. The inner fubftance
is very white and folid, the fibres divei-ging from the
centre upwards: in breaking they form an inverted
cone. This fpecies is frequently very fportive.
T A B. LXX.
HELVELLA GELATINOSA. Bull. tab. 473. fig. 2.
NEARLY a gelly when frefli and young, but harder
and fomewhat compreflTed when at maturity. The
largeft was fent me from Bedford; the others I have
found in diiFerent woods in autumn.
T A B . LXXI.
AGARICUS NITENS. Schaff. tab. 238.
L A D Y ARDEN feems the firñ difcoverer of this plant
in England. Her Ladyfliip gathered them in Nork-
Park, and favoured me with frefli fpecimens in Odober
and November laft. If Dr. Withering had feen this
plant, he would have eñeemed SchaefFer's tab. above
quoted one of his beft figures, not a bad figure of A.
eburneus. When freili this fungus is beautifully w^hite,
the -pileus glutinous and fhining: it is befpangled with
dew-drops on the upper part of the folid but pithy
ñipes: when advanced it becomes cupped, and in decaying
or when bruifed acquires patches of a bright
flame-coloured or fcorched appearance, finally turning
to a reddifli or foxy brown ; it has a faint pleafant
odour.
T A B . LXXII.
AGARICUS R o sEus . Bull. t. 162. 507. With. v. 3. 364.
THESE are abundant in mofl woods all the autumn,
either of a pale purple or rofe colour, in odour and taite
like cabbage: the purple are the mofl: common, and
generally fmalleft. May not this be purpurafcens of
Withering, and Janthinus of Batfch ?