THE HISTORY OF MYCOLOGY IN ESSEX. 171 esculentus 13. sive pileolo lato & rotundo livido C.B. esculentus 12. Park. The most common esculent field Mushrome or Champignon. [Psalliota campestris]. Fungi albi venenati viscidi J.B. The white poisonous Mushrome. [Amanita phalloides.] Fungi longissimo pediculo candicantes, sed maculati, esculenti, J.B. . . . The (all navel Mushrome. [Lepiota procera]. Fungus pediculo in bulbi formam excrescente C.B. [Amanita rubescens]. Fungus parvus, ex albido subluteus, pileolo hemisphaerico. Fungus parvus albus cum luteola parte in summitate capituli, visco nitente resplendens J.B. Small yellowish Mushrome, with an hemispherical head. [Stropharia semiglobata.] Fungus parvus galericulatus striis lividis aut nigris, The most common dangerous small Mushrome. [Panaeolus papilio- naceus]. Fungi pratenses minores, externe viscidi, albi lutei vel rubentes." [Hygrophorus coccineus.] In the second edition (1696) there are three Essex localities:— "Fungus parvus luteus ad ophioglossoiden nigrum accedens. Yellow Adders-tongue Mushrome. In vivario Middletoniano D. Fr. Willughby, & alibi in pascuis copiose. D. Dale in pascuis glareosis circa Bocking vicum in Essexia observavit. [Clavaria inaequalis]. Fungi calyciformes seminiferi Mentzel pugil. An Fungus minimus άνωνυμ Clus? minimus, ligneis tabellis areolarum hortorum adnascens C.B. Seeding Cup-mushromc. Observavit & ad me transmisit D. Sloane; ejusdam meminit D. Merrett in Pinace. Mr. Dale observed it in a Barley eddish near Braintree in Essex, growing to the Stalks of Barley, trodden into the ground, plentifully. Ab aliis omnibus nobis cognitis Fungis abunde distinguitur, quod semine praegnans sit. Descriptionem vide in Hist. Nost. p. 105. [Cyathus vernicosus.] Fungi Pezicae Plinii Col. F. noxius V. seu acetabulorum modo cavus, radice carens C.B. Cup-mushromc. This Sprang out of the clefts of the ground in that dry Year of the Sickness continued in Cambridge 1666. in the wood ridings at Burwell in Lancashire. Dr. Lister. Found also in a shady Lanc near Belchamp S. Paul in Essex, by Mr. Dale. Mr. Doody shewed