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FORMING mealy granular particles, scattered in fasciculi over large masses of stone, of a yellow colour, on the under-side of the Cromleigh, near Penzance in Cornwall. TAB. CCCLXXXI. Schæff t. 2. With. 261. ed. 3. Vol. 4.

Bull. 50 & 554. fig. 3.

Agaric is liable to many different appearances in form and colour, not however irreconcileable to the nature of the Fungus tribe. It is not uncommon on heaths and in meadows, Sec. growing to maturity in two or three days. It may be bleached, or lighter coloured, in dry or funny weather; in damp weather it becomes twisted and deformed; occasionally the moisture of the Fungus partly going off; the remainder becomes black, and like charcoal. This last change is very common, but does not always happen.

The yellowish figure, which is domewhat rugged, has been called A.fiammeus. Hudson called it A. dentatus, from Linnæus, I believe; but it is not at all a constant character for the lamellæ to be toothed. Their colour is sometimes pinky, and they are mostly loose. The stipes is either solid, pithy, or hollow. TAB. CCCLXXXII.

Schæff. 248 & 249. With. t. 177. ed. 3. vol. 4.

only a variety of A. tigrinus, tab. 68. of this work. It is strangely sportive, and liable to various appearances from not always producing the pileus and lamellæ. See fig. 249. Schæff. Thus Holmskiold in the Fungi Danici, thought it to be of the Clavaria tribe, calling it Ramaria ceratoides, tab. 9. and Mr.Dickson has figured a variety, as may be readily seen in Clavaria lignosa of his fasciculus 4. tab. 12. fig. 9. The woody