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 TAB. CXXIV.

Bull. Pl. 522. fig. 2.

Bull. Pl. 524 fig. 2.

in colour; the pileus is sometimes brown all over, and more or less scaly, the boss generally darkest, and mostly brown, though the rest of the pileus may happen to be purple or lilac. The gills vary from nearly white to a dark brown. Is this A. umbonatus of Dr. Withering? and may not the gills be sometimes quite white, as he describes them? It is not uncommon in September and October. TAB. CXXV.

Batsch. tab. 23. fig. 116. a. b. c.

a distinict species, this is a very pretty one. I have found it three or four times in different places in October and November very plentifully, but not always with purple on the stem; in other respects it seems very constant. TAB. CXXVI.

uncommon in autumn in most woods, although it should seem to have hitherto escaped notice. This kind commonly grows to a large size. The pileus is of a dirtyish yellow, or nearly white, the gills whitish, and thickest near the stipes, somewhat flattened, as it were, by separating from it in a peculiar manner, and partly adhering to each other. This is constant in the many individuals I have seen.