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 TAB. CCVI. by favour of the Rev. Mr. Hemsted from the neighbourhood of Newmarket, Cambridgshire. It appears an undescribed species, and is parasitical on pine cones, sticks, &c. The stipes is clothed at the base with a rigid woolly substance like spurs, above it is downy. The gills partly rounding from the stipes or pileus nearly white. The pileus almost regularly convex, of a dusky brown. TAB. CCVII.

F. Dan. t. 832. very numerous in the shady parts of woods, and what I have found keep a constant uniformity. The stipes in breaking seems encrusted with a bark. The edge of the pileus in the younger state is attached to the stem with woolly threads. TAB. CCVIII. Huds. 616.

Schæff. t. 12. With. v. 4. p. 236. , swelling in wet, twisting and distorting in dry weather. The lamallæ are straight from the edge of the pileus to the stem, or decurrent, always copioustly covered with a farinaceous pinky powder, most conspicuous when the fungus is drying. It often resembles the bleached varieties of A. amethystinus, which has occasioned some confusion.