T A B . CXLIV. T A B. CXLVI.
AGARICUS AROMATICUS.
GLUTINOSUS.
M I M 111
! W I
F i i
Bull t. 258. 8c 539.
[RST fent me by Mr. B. M. Foriler. Found at
Waltliamftow. The agreeable fpicy odour fuggefted
its name. It appears to be A. glutinofus of Bulliard,
though his gills are colourlefs; a name applicable to
many of the fungi, (and would do for this were it not
previouily engaged,) as it is fometimes altogether a
gluten, or jelly. The pileus has generally a thick glutinous
Ikin of a cinnamon colour: the gills are fomewhat
pinky; they appear to be decurrent in the young
ftate, but when advanced they feparate, fo as to appear
naturally loofe or feparate from the ftipes, which is
fomewhat hollow and pithy. The who e plant when
frefli is often fo tender, I have not been able to gather
it whole ; in bruifing it becomes blackifli. As the plant
dries, the fkin corrugates, and often becomes very
prettily reticulated ; (may not this be A. reticulatus of
Dr. Withering, ed. 3. 289 ?) The tafte is watery, with a
peppermint-like coolnefs in the mouth, and a lafting
roughnefs in the throat.
perhaps
;long to
T A B. CXLV.
LYCOPERDON RADIATUM.
T H I S remarkably curious and new fpecies, _
a new genus, (which, however, feems to belong
the Ly coper don phalloides of Philofophical Tranfadtions,
«y.74. 473.1.16. and Spidlegium botanicum, 1.12.) was fent
me from Holt in Norfolk by the Rev. R. B. Francis,
who found it on a plaftered wall of a ball-room. The
rays appear to be the root by which it is attached to
the wall, and are compofed of an infinite number of
fine woolly filaments nearly white. The little ball in
the centre is nearly folid, and finely tomentofe on the
outfide. Under a magnifier we can difcover a fine
duft or feed, clofely reiembling that of the Lycoperdon
phalloides, biat much lefs copious.
LYCOPERDON ACARIFORME,
A L S O a new fpecies, found at Walthamftow by Mr.
B. M. Forfter. The little radiate roots are compofed of
fimilar fibres to the preceding, fpreading in a much
fmaller proportion, fomewhat knee'd, and divided into
irregular lobes bearing fome refemblance to claws,
giving it altogether the appearance of an animal. The
ball is fcarcely tomentofe, nor can we be pofitive that
it is a Lycoperdon.
T A B. CXLVII.
PEZIZA HISPIDA. Rel. Sup. 1051.
LANUGINOSA. Bull. 204.
^^ ALBIDA. Schaff. t. 151.
T H E Rev. Charles Abbot favored me with the larger
fpecimens of this plant from White wood, Bedfordihire.
Bulliard has fome figures much larger, fpreading and
recurved, in a campanulate form, nearly half an inch
beyond the hifpid part. The fmall figures were from
Effex, gathered by Thomas Walford, Efq. and differ in
fize only.
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