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verted cones and other iliapes. The porous furface is
very unequal, forming various reticulations and finufes.
Their colour varies from yellow to orange, or a bright
red brown. The whole fruitification often forms a
circle from one to fix or eight inches in diameter, furrounded
with an outer fubftance, tender, and pithy or
cottony, of a pale brown. The upper part is commonly
clothed with a white mucor. I'his pithy fubftance,
without fruitification, is often found by itfelf, and is
very dry ; whence the Englifli name of dry rot: yet as
the fructification is feldom without drops of water refembling
tears, the Latin name lacbrymans, or weeping,
has been given. Dr. Withering's reference to Bolton
makes it appear he never faw the plant. The latter
feems unwilling to perfuade himfelf that his figure,
tab. 167, was B. lacbrymans, and could only reconcile it
by the pores " having fomewhat the appearance of
falling tears." It is certainly a very different fpecies,
and, as he fays, agrees well with his B. obliquus, tab. 74.
T A B. CXIV.
P E Z I Z A RADICULATA.
FOUND in Wanfted Garden, Effex, OA. 13th, 1794,
and in the autumn of 1795, rooted up to the cup in litter
and earth. The infide is a thin lining of nearly an
uniform yellow. The outer fide and the radicle are
white, a little woolly; the bottom of the cup being
fomewhat corrugated with irregular reticulations
or veins. This fungus ihrinks much in drying, and
becomes leathery. May the figure in Ray's Synopfis,
ed. 3. t. 24. f. 4. have been taken from a bad fpecimen
of this fpecies ?
T A B . CXV.
PEZIZA OCHROLEUCA. Bull. 1.105./. I. with. ed. 3. 349.
N O T uncommon in the damp receifes of moift woods.
It varies a little in the proportion of the pileus and
ftipes. The Rev. Mr. Abbott, of Bedford, fent me fpecimens
of this, among which one or two had a ftipes full
an inch long. It is fomewhat leathery and elaftic,
when frefh, but in drying fnrinks much, and becomes
hardiflr and horny.
T A B . CXVI.
PEZIZA CALYCULUS. £«//. i. 416./3.
T H IS differs but little from P. ochroleuca, except in
proportion and colour, and in having the ñipes fhorter
with refpe£l to the cup. It does not ihrink much in
decay.
T A B . CXVII.
PEZIZA FRUCTIGENA. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 350.
T H IS feems to want more than a defcription to diftinguifli
it from P. calyculus. It is however more
waxy, uniformly lighter in colour, and when on the
fides of the fruit, See. on which it grows, the ftem is
lengthened, weak and flexuofe. It flrrinks much in
drying, and becomes yellower.
T A B . CXVIII.
PEZIZA COMITIALIS. Batfcb. Jig. 151.
I WAS favoured with thefe fpecimens by the Rev.
Mr. Relhan, who gathered them in Madingley Plantations.
This is in appearance a very near approach
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