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TAB. CXIV.
Peziza radiculata. [Geopyxis.]
Found in Wansted Garden, Essex, Oct. 13th, 1794, and in
the autumn of 1795, rotted up to the cup in litter and earth.
The inside is a thin lining of nearly an uniform yellow. The
outer side and the radicle are white, a little woolly; the bottom
of the cup being somewhat corrugated with irregular reticulations
or veins. This fungus shrinks much in drying, and becomes
leathery. May the figure in Ray's Synopsis ed. 3. t. 24. f. 4.
have been taken from a bad specimen of this species?
TAB. CXXXIV.
Boletus lucidus. Curt. F.L. 224. [Polyporus.]
--------- rugosus Jac. 169. With. 321.
--------- obliquatus. Bull. Pl. 459. ed. Pl. a.b.c.
This has some affinity to the last [B. fomentarius], is of a fibrous
texture, and sometimes sessile, but softer, and the generally richly
lacquered appearance of the pileus and stem makes it con-
spicuous. The varnish seems a coloured gum, similar to what
often issues in the autumn from the hornbeam, of a dark brown
or black, resembling bitumen. I have mostly found it on the
hornbeam, or Carpinus betulus Linn. It is seldom found in
the soft state, when the part growing is yellow or whitish, and
very tender, when it recedes from the least touch, so that grass,
&c., may easily be surrounded by it, and seem to grow through
it. I have found it two or three times so on Hainault Forest,
Essex, &c. Mr. Walford, of Birdbrook, Essex, favoured me with
the specimen here figured, from his plantation.
TAB. CXLIII.
Agaricus pallidus. Schaeff. tab. 50. [Clitopilus prunulus.]
Hainault Forest produces this plant plentifully in October.
It has some resemblance to the last species [Agaricus opacus].
The pileus is often opaque, but not silvery or shining. It has
a strong mealy smell, and disagreeable taste. The gills in-
variably produce on their outer surfaces a pinky powder, in the
advanced state, and in drying.
TAB. CXLIV.
Agaricus aromaticus. [Hygrophorus.]
--------- glutinosus. Bull. t. 258. & 539.
First sent me by Mr. B. M. Forster. Found at Waltham-
stow. The agreeable spicy odour suggested its name. It