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 TAB. CCCLXXXV.

Bull. 560. t. 3.

great width of the lamellæ where fixed to the stipes is the great characteristic of this Fungus, and I am apt to think it a variety of the two following.

Bull. 560. fig. 2 & 3.

THESE seem to have no specific difference, and are like the last, except the lamellæ and colour.

Bull. 260.

THIS agrees with Bulliard's figures, except that the stipes of ours is much longer, and the lamellæ somewhat darker in colour.

Bull.

BESIDES the attenuated length of the stipes, the lamellæ are mostly narrow, and attenuated, and scarcely touch the upper part of the stipes. The first four of these I have occasionally found to have milky stipes: they are probably only varieties. The fifth is certainly only a variety of A. varius figured in our tab. 222. under the name of A. polygrammus. I have seen specimens near a foot long in the stipes, with every appearance the same except size, and sometimes with a root of five or six inches in addition. TAB. CCCLXXXVI.

Bull.

find this curious Sphæria growing in a remarkable manner on Lichen pertusus, sent by Mr. Brunton jun. of Rippon in Yorkshire; and by Mr. Borrer from near Brighton in Sussex. It is parasitic in the substance of the crust of the Lichen, and protrudes from it, resembling the natural frutification so much that it might be easily mistaken for it in a Lichen less known. The hairs surrounding the mouth sometimes are whitish.