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 TAB. LXXVI.

With. v. 3. 311.

a very common plant, particularly in pine groves, clustering and often forming very large circles. Sometimes it grows erect, and the whole surface is smooth; more generally cracked and distorted, or assuming variety of appearances. See Schæffer's A. multiformis, tab. 14. undoubtedly a sportive variety. TAB. LXXVII. Bull. t. 92.

Schæff. t. 209.

stumps of hornbeam, &c. not very common, sometimes 24 inches in circumference. I have generally found it in September, varying but little in colour or other respects. I believe it but little known in the perfect state, and perhaps a variety of this may be the A. pilosus of Withering, 295, confounded with A. floccosus, which I can shew by specimens to be a diftinct plant. May not this be Schæffer's A. obscurus also? TAB. LXXVIII.

Huds. 636. Bull. t. 474. Schæff. t. 148.

many dried specimens of this plant, and cannot agree with Dr. Withering, that it is the same species with P. epidendra.