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 cones and other shapes. The porous surface is very unequal, forming various reticulations and sinuses. Their colour varies from yellow to orange, or a bright red brown. The whole fructification often forms a circle from one to fix or eight inches in diameter, surrounded with an outer substance, tender, and pithy or cottony, of a pale brown. The upper part is commonly clothed with a white mucor. This pithy substance, without fructification, is often found by itself, and is very dry; whence the English name of dry rot: yet as the fructification is seldom without drops of water resembling tears, the Latin name lachrymans, or weeping, has been given. Dr. Withering's reference to Bolton makes it appear he never saw the plant. The latter seems unwilling to persuade himself that his figure, tab. 167, was B. lachrymans, and could only reconcile it by the pores "having somewhat the appearance of falling tears." It is certainly a very different species, and, as he says, agrees well with his B. obliquus, tab. 74.

TAB. CXIV.

Found in Wansted Garden, Essex, Oct. 13th, 1794, and in the autumn of 1795, rooted up to the cup in litter and earth. The inside is a thin lining of nearly an uniform yellow. The outer side and the radicle are white, a little woolly; the bottom of the cup being somewhat corrugated with irregular reticulations or veins. This fungus shrinks much in drying, and becomes leathery. May the figure in Ray's Synopsis, ed. 3. t. 24. f. 4. have been taken from a bad specimen of this species? TAB. CXV.

Bull. t. 105. f.' 1. With. ed. 3. 349.

uncommon in the damp recesses of moist woods. It varies a little in the proportion of the pileus and stipes. The Rev. Mr. Abbott, of Bedford, sent me specimens of this, among which one or two had a stipes full an inch long. It is somewhat leathery and elastic, when fresh, but in drying shrinks much, and becomes hardish and horny.