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 TAB. CCCCXII.

Fig. 1.

I HAVE gathered this species several times, and was favoured in the spring of 1809 with some specimens from the New Forest, by my friend Charles Lyell, Esq. The present very elegant specimen, with which I was favoured in May last, from near Alcester, by Thomas Purton, Esq. corresponds with all the others, and seems to confirm its title to being considered a new species. It divaricates more or less from a centre in larger or smaller segments of circles, with occasional elevations, having a very white, fine woolly or cottony surface, neatly bordered near the extremity, with generally one, sometimes two black lines. The under side is brownish, covered with a greyish bloom, corrugated nearly like the upper side, as it is rather thin. It is sometimes imbricated in much larger dusters than this figure, and is often more confused.

Fig. 2.

This Lycopcrdon with which I was favoured by Dr. Smith, was gathered by him, among moss, on the stem of a beech in Bisham Wood, Berkshire.

It is remarkable for bursting extremely raggedly, and having a number of holes in it, at first sight looking very much like insects holes; it is also generally so weak, that it becomes almost pendant by the root.