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 find described, I therefore take upon me to distinguish it by a trivial name. The present figure is of the middle size, and has the general character of the species; some of the specimens were smaller, and some nearly twice the size. Stem cylindrical, nearly solid and central, about half the width of the pileus, and about twice as long as it is thick, flecked with a warm brown as far as to where the pileus was attached, then whiter; white and blush-coloured within, probably it has sometimes a rugged or cobwebby annulus. A few obscure brown radicles. Gills about three in the set, scarcely fixed, pale bufi*, with a blush shade more or less conspicuous, curving with the pileus at the margin. Pileus bluntly bossed curving inwards at the margin, flecked with a fine warm brown and somewhat viscous, white within, and rather thick. TAB. CCCCXVII.

I GATHERED these on the delightful Mount Edgecumbe in August, 1812, where I had the most elevated pleasure I ever felt in this life, in contemplating the sublime ways of Providence, every aspect, hill and dale, bespoke its contrivance, a charming lesson for mortals, that

It was perhaps the more felt from the chance that brought me to Plymouth, (viz.) to inspect H. M. S. the Queen Charlotte, with a view to ascertain, if possible, what might be adviseable to prevent the spreading of the Fungi, &c. I was thus brought to ascertain a new species of thie Fungus tribe; it grew on a few dead branches of a hard or rough grown Sloe-bush, evidently roughened by its peculiar aspect at certain seasons, and liable occasionally to premature decay, thus becoming food for a parasite, a pretty little Agaric with a rather solid cylindrical pithy stipes thinnest at the top, brown outside with woolly fibres, lighter within: lamella in threes, partly fixed, broadish for the size, whitish brown: pileus rather thin, involute at the edges, semi-orbicular, and thickly covered with brown tufted or pointed bundled woolly fibres.