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FJG. I. AGARICOS TENTACULUM. Butt. 5 6 0 . 3 .
T H E great width of the lamelloe where fixed to the
Ibpes is the great charafteriftic of this Fungus, and I
am apt to thinlc it a variety of the two following.
FIG. 2 & 3. A. ADONIS. BUU. 5 6 0 . 2 GF 3.
THESE feem to have no fpecific difference, and are
like the laft, except the lamella: and colour.
FIG. 4. A. PUMILUS. BUU. 260.
THIS agrees with Bulliard's figures, except that the
flipes of ours is much longer, and the lamell® fomewhat
darker in colour.
FIG. 5. A. TENUIS. BUU.
BESIDES the attenuated length of the ftipes, the
lamellae are moftly narrow, and attenuated, and fcarcely
touch the upper part of the ftipes. The firft four of
thefe I have occafionally found to have milky flipes :
they are probably only varieties. The fifth is certainly
only a variety of A. varius figured in our tab. 222.
under the name of A. polygrammus. I have feen fpecimens
near a foot long in the flipes, with every appearance
the fame except fize, and fometimes with a root
of five or fix inches in addition.
T A B . CCCLXXXVI.
FIG. I. SPH.^RIA SPHINCTERICA. BuU.
Vl^E find this curious Sphceria growing in a remarkable
manner on Lichen pertufus, fent by Mr. Brunton
jun. of Rippon in Yorkfliire; and by Mr. Borrer from
near Brighton in Suflex. It is parafitic in the fubflance
of the crufl of the Lichen, and protrudes from it, refembling
the natural fruaification fo much that it
might be eafily miflaken for it in a Lichen lefs known.
The hairs furrounding the mouth fometimes are
whitifh.
FIG. 2. S. PARASITICA.
THIS little Spharia grows on the fruaification and
cruft oiLichen vernalis. It was fent by the Rev. Mr.
Harriman from Durham.
FIG. 3. S. HIRSUTA.
WAS found by the Rev. W. Kirby between the
plafter walls of his houfe, while repairing. It grows
in little bundles, each tubercled and covered with fine
hairs. The outfide is blackiih, the infide fometimes has
a border of white.
FIG. 4. S. scopuLA.
FOUND on rotting baikets of wicker, and on old
hoops, at Mead Place. At firfl the Fungi feem only
little tufts of fine black hairs; but fome more advanced
contain a little black fpha;rule: the hairs are feathered,
or furniflied with little hairs upon them.
FIG. 5. CLAVARIA TENUIS.
FOUND on bits of rotting wood at Mead Place in the
coal cellar, in damp weather. It refembles a little black
hair thickening upwards.
T A B . CCCLXXXVII.
FIG. I. FIBRILLARIA STELLATA.
I THOUGHT it neceffary to figure this, and another
or two of the imperfea Fungi, that they might be
the better underftood when found.
Moft Fungi, apparently when feedlings, produce
fmall cottony fibres, and fome affume a more determinate
form, without coming to their full growth or
figure. If reprefented, and for the prefent named, in
fuch a flate, they can be hereafter traced to their proper
genera, when they happen to unfold their fruaification.
This figure is not uncommon, and on examination
feems compofed of fmall white fibres, branching,
and fpreading flat on bits of flick in a flellated
manner.