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 TAB. CCCCIV.

Rev. H. Davies of Beaumares gathered this Fungus on bean-stalks in autumn. Stem simple, soon spreading into irregular claviform divisions, ending obtusely or furcated, the whole covered with brown scales, whitish within, which, when magnified, appear irregularly margined and cellular, perhaps containing the rudiments of brown seeds. TAB. CCCCV.

in spring, in chilly damp places, on the leaves of Runiex acutus. The specimen figured was gathered between Battersea meadows and the hilly rise towards the Wandsworth road. The beauty if it. once attracts the attention, is indisputable; but red and yellow in low leaves are so usually blended with the decayed parts of plants, that it is liable to confound usual observation. It is often very conspicuous, and when examined closely will be found to have a border commencing from the vivid green of the leaf from pale to deeper yellow passing to full red. In the more central parts of the rather blotched rising circles are the little cups of fructification in circular clusters sunk in the red substance, having a somewhat regularly lacerated spreading border, whitish, with, darker granulæ in orderly arrangement.