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 TAB. LVI.

With. 302. Bull. t. 240.

so common as some of the genus. The inosculating and branching of the gills, and the involuted woolly edge, easily distinguished this from most other species. TAB. LVII.

Bolt. t. 98. f. I. With. 430.

darkish damp holes in the stumps and rotten roots of trees very common. It varies a little in shape and colour, often turning quite black as it verges towards decay. TAB. LVIII. Huds. 625.

With. 405. Bull. t. 74, 464, & 497.

's figures of this, often elegant, species are excellent. It is very plentiful in autumn among oak-trees, growing on their trunks or spreading roots. Its vegetation is most rapid in wet weather. When very young it resembles a strawberry, and advancing in growth it becomes hispid with tubular protuberances, shaped like florets (fig. 1 ). By degrees it acquires a distinct under side of a pale yellow, with similar protuberances (fig. 2): and as these become more distinct,