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 TAB. CCXXI.

on some parts of Epping-forest, in September and October: I have seen it but seldom elsewherw. It partakes a little of the charaders of some other Agarics; I have therefore called it hybridus. The pileus somewhat resembles A. glutinosus of Curtis, and, like most of the Fungi, is glutinous in wet weather. T A B. CCXXII.

Bull. t. 395.

ingenious author of the Herbier de la France, who so very aptly caught the different appearances of the Agarics, did not let the beautiful satiny striated appearance of this plant escape his notice. I follow his example in describing it as a species, and adopt his specific name, though I suspect it may be a variety of A. varius of Dr. Withering, clypeatus of Linnaeus, &c. of which I hope to enable the reader to form a general idea, when I figure the usual appearance of the plant.

Some individuals of the Agaric now before us have a very long extent of root or stem under ground. T A B. CCXXIII.

With. vol. 3. 206.

obliged from my own observation to say, I think this and A. violaceus Linn, see tab. 219, are varieties of A. araneosus., and A. nudus of Bulliard, and also A. subpurparoscens of Dr. Withering, which Batsch seems to have figured, tab. 74, from an half-dried specimen, under the name of A. obsoletus. These and other obvious varieties having been made species, I am afraid of being under the necessity of adding more figures in order to make all the varieties clearly understood.