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 the stipes, were plainly the effects of the situation; but a more curious circumstance is, that the confined place of growth seemed to prevent the pollen or white dull from spreading, so that it lay on the upper half of the stipes like white-wash; which gave the plant quite a new aspect. I went to Kensington Gardens the same day, and found specimens of almost all the various appearances growing about one old stump. Those situated underneath the others most nearly resembled these. I have more than once found the sftipes branching. TAB. CCLXIV. Curt. F.L. fasc. 5. t. 70. With. ed. 3. 259. very beautifully varied in its colours, but easily to be distinguished by the general habit, except a fasciculated variety from which the upper specimen in the plate was taken, and which is mostly destitute of an annulus. TAB. CCLXV.

Linn. Schæff. 114.

Bull. 332.

THIS is so variable a plant under different circumstances, that its varieties might very easily be supposed to constitute different species. Certainly that here represented is the same with B. flavus of With. 320. It is sometimes quite yellow all over, at others so full of fine brown powder and so covered with gluten, as to give it another appearance. The pores are sometimes decurrent. The annulus is constantly present, and is often very large. I know no other English species with an annulus.