226 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
turning blue. The Rev. Mr. Hemsted has sent it me several
times from the neighbourhood of Newmarket, and I have found
it on the Croydon road, and at Hainault forest. It seldom
produces good specimens, and is frequently indistinct, as
exhibited in Schaeffer's figures. The pores are small, and
sometimes irregular.
TAB. CCXXXIII.
Clavaria phacorhiza. Dicks. fasc. 2. 25. [Typhula.]
First found in a garden at Walthamstow. I have gathered
it since in Kensington-gardens. The plant is a slender simple
undulating thread, terminating rather bluntly at the apex.
The substance at the base somewhat resembles a bean or seed
splitting to protrude a young plant. Sometimes the head is
straighter, and resembles a bodkin or netting-needle.
TAB. CCL.
Boletus rubeolarius. Bull. 100 and 490. fig. I. With. ed.
3. v. 4. 315.
--------- luridus. Schaeff. 117. [Boletus luridus.]
Not very rare. I have found it at Homsey-wood, and at
Hainault forest, Essex. My friend, the Rev. Mr. Charles
Abbot, sent me a specimen from Bedfordshire. The fine carmine,
cinnabar, or vermillion-coloured powder or seed, is often so
copiously shed as to stain everything that touches it, and is
so thick under the pores as almost to obscure them.
TAB. CCLXXVIII.
Clavaria coralloides. Huds. 640. With. ed. 3. 367.
A Very common fungus. It is equally variable in form and
colour, but mostly white. The substance is brittle, dense,
nearly solid. The taste is agreeable, resembling that of the
common Mushroom, Agaricus campestris. Found in great
plenty in the shrubbery at Wanstead House, Essex, by Mr.
B. M. Forster.
TAB. CCXCVII.
Sphaeria floriformis. [? Anthostoma decipiens.]
I Found this curious Sphaeria on a hornbeam on Hainault
forest. It is most readily distinguished by the plaited and
flower-like appearance at the mouth.
TAB. CCCIV.
Agaricus Georgii. Linn. With. v. 4. 226. [Psalliota
arvensis.]
This plant differs very little from the common Mushroom,