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 TAB. CCCCXVIII.

THIS remarkable Fungus was found in great abundance in Nov. 1812, chiefly on unsquared deals in a Thames Dock, certainly unfit from its aspect for preserving wood, and I presume the wood had been unseasonably committed to the water? The Fungus is without stipes or sessile, attached somewhat centrically or by the back, governed by the circumstances of the position of the wood, and even becomes inverted when the wood gets turned up by the tide, as occasionally happens. The lamellæ spread from one or more centres, or from a centrical continviing line, often inosculating into labyrinthiform order; there are some pores like a Boletus, generally light or dark brown. The pileus is rather thin fibrous, corrugated or with varied segments of circles like plush, velvet, or tufty hairs, &c. deepest brown towards the centre, and lighter at the edges; sometimes the edge is bordered with nearly white. The inside leathery fibrous, of a fine Ochre or Rhubarb colour. TAB. CCCCXIX. STIPES solid, round, thickest at the base, white, partly reticulated with fine thready veining towards the upper part, and becoming finer and browner, with impressions of the pores at the top, whitish inside. Pores rounding from the stipes, or what is called loose, very deep, or thick and massive, rather angulated. Pileus thick, roundly imbossed, tapering at the edge, which is rather involute, somewhat largely undulating, light brown at the top, white within, sometimes changing to light brown the day after gathering, changes red when cut. Gathered in Hainault Forest, Essex, August 25, 1810. TAB. CCCCXX. , With. 320. var. Schæff. 133?

STIPES irregularly cylindrical, varying at the base, somewhat flecked with brown on the lower part, yellowish upwards, solid. Pores rather irregular, thinly placed and fixed to the stem, yellow or yellowish brown. Pileus broadly embossed, chesnut-brown, extremity incurved, thin, produced