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 the upper ones lose their form. At length the under surface becomes covered with distinct and separate tubes, entire at their orifice (fig. 3), turning brown and emitting feeds at their edges, which often hang in festoons on little cobwebs formed by some insect of the spider kind. The fungus afterwards either rots or turns black in decay.

It varies in shape and size, but commonly resembles liver, being saturated with a blood-coloured fluid, which adds to the resemblance. Its taste is like that of the common mushroom, ''Ag. campestris'', and some persons reckon it nearly as good. TAB. LIX. With. 436. Bull. t. 485. f. 4. been favoured with recent specimens of this Peziza by the Rev. Mr. Budstone, who found them at Sand Hutton near York, growing in the earth at the bottom of a shady hedge, not, as usually reported, on rotten wood. TAB. LX. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1652. Huds. 638. With. 450. in Kensington gardens in autumn, most frequently among moss (Bryum undulatum), growing from a perished chrysalis, or the unquickened re- mains of a spider's nest. It varies in form and size.