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 TAB. CCCCXIII.

THERE seemed a necessity for figuring this perhaps unfavourable variety of Agaricus cantharelhis. It seems to possess most of the characters belonging to that Fungus, yet few persons recognize it; first, because it is always poor and thin, and next, because it has rather an unpleasant odour; whereas Ag. cantharellus is thick and fleshy, generally whiter within, and of a pleasant odour; see Description and Tab. 46. It is not uncommon in our woods in Autumn.

TAB. CCCCXIV.

THIS elegant Fungus was sent me by Miss Rackett from Keynston wood, near Spetisbury, Dorsetshire, in the autumn of 1808. It does not agree with any species I remember to have seen. The stipes is cracked, showing its fibrous texture; the pileus is somewhat fibrously striated on the upper margin; it rises to an umbo, where it is a little cracked into small tessera; the umbo is of a full fox colour, and becomes delicately lighter towards the edge; it is internally whiter. The lamella are rather deep, partly fixed by a kind of claw, in three or four sets, deep fox colour; stipes pale, whitest at the top and bottom, inclining to bulbous. The blush-colour in the crack is the commencement of decay. The specimens soon became covered with Mucor, which spread over the gills and pileus very full and finely thready, sometimes branching, and with little ovate vesicles, all of a light fawn colour. TAB. CCCCXV. I RECEIVED this and others of a similar description by the same favour as the last, August 16, 1810. The stipes is ruggedly hollow, and in some more swoln than in the figure; the lamella rather broad and thin, and in three or four sets. Pileus thin, more or less of a pale fawn colour. TAB. CCCCXVI. MISS RACKETT gathered this in Keynston wood, Aug. 22, 1810. It seems to me distinct from every species I can