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 TAB. CLXXIV.

in damp places on very rotten wood. These specimens were found in a grove under poplar-trees in Lambeth-marsh, August 27th, 1795. I have seen it since there, and in other places, strictly agreeing with what are here delineated. TAB. CLXXV. Bull. t. 489, & 132, var.

Schæff. tab. 104.?

frequent in woods, &c. It varies much in size and length of stipes, but less in the colour and general shape of the pileus and gills; the pileus has something of a dull leathery appearance, and is of a dirty greyish crimson. Its shape is hemisphærical, somewhat flattened. The pores are a dirty or greyish green, sometimce nearly white; their tubes very short towards the stipes, longer in the middle, and shortening again at the edge of the pileus; their diameter always small, but they seem when magnified regularly shaped. This I am told is a favourite food among the Russians and Poles, who have many ways of cooking and pickling it. Mr. Frazier was so kind as to bring me some from thence pickled, very rich in spices. Insects soon breed in this fungus.