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 TAB. CXCVI.

gathered in Stone-Park, Withiham, Sussex, on a decaying stump, perhaps an oak. It grows radiating from a centre, or shall woolly beginning, bursting through the bark. The pores are nearly equal and small; pileus at its attachment ferruginous, browner in the middle, zoned and yellower towards the edges; texture woody. Perhaps this may be B. versicolor Schæff. tab. 136.—but surely not of Linn. TAB. CXCVII.

Rev. Mr. Hemsted of Newmarket sent me this pretty Agaric. I do not know that it is any where noticed. The stipes is woolly at the base, solid, and nearly of equal thickness; the long gills fixed to the stipes; the pileus thin and somewhat conical. Although a tender plant, it does not change colour in drying, but shrivels much. It grows parasitically on pine cones, &c. TAB. CXCVIII.

Huds. very singular plant has been frequently found in Norfolk and Suffolk. My specimen was met with in Kent. So strange a vegetable has surprised many; and in the year 1695 it was published under the name of Fungus Anthropomorphus, and figured with