80 FUNGI OF EXETER. 



A. papilionaceus. Two specimens only have come under my notice ; those 

 were found on the lawn, at Coaver. May 19th, 1853. 



A. striatus. Rather rare. Three or four only in a field at Matford, near 

 Exeter. 1851. 



A. Boltonii. This is a very pretty and delicate Agaric; in Avet weather it 

 is beautiful, but in diy weather it sometimes dries up before the pileus 

 expands, when it closes or falls down round the stem, in folds, precisely like 

 a closed umbrella in miniature. The description in English Flora being so 

 brief, I Avill add a little more to it, so as to enable any one interested in 

 these matters to distinguish this plant from its allies. Stem hollow, brittle; 

 fibrillose, when young, very finely striated, the striae scattered over with very 

 minute scales, particularly the upper half, at length nearly smooth. Gills, 

 cinnamon, or reddish yellow coloured, very thin ; ventricose in front, free, 

 the margins finely serrated; Pileus membranaceous, viscid, when young, 

 soft to the touch, smooth, and shining at the apex ; margin striated, appa- 

 rently from the pressure of the gills ; ochraceus, the pileus at length 

 becomes concave, slightly umbonate, the umbo at length clothed in a beauti- 

 ful white web-like down. It is a veiy beautiful and graceful little Agaric, 

 not uncommon in rich, dungy pastures, round Exeter, in July. My figure 

 and Sowerby's A. Jlavidus, agree exactly. 



A. disseminatus. This is a delicate and beautiful plant, but very common, 

 on the ground over buried wood, &c. 



A. comatus. A fine and beautiful fungus, in a young state, when it is also 

 good as an article for food ; but it soon dissolves into a nasty black fluid, 

 which fluid may be made use of by the artist. 



A. picaeeus. Very rare, but curious and beautiful. I met with two of this 

 species, in a pasture at Matford, in Oct. 1851, but have not seen a single one 

 since. Those I took home and figured ; but while busy painting them, one 

 of them melted away, into a black, inky mass as if he had not the face to sit 

 to have his likeness taken; but it was no use, the thing was done ; for you 

 must recollect whoever takes up the study of this interesting branch of 

 Botany, when you get a subject, you must either make a drawing directly, or 

 a clear written note of the species under consideration, some of them being 

 so fugacious and fragile that almost the least breath of air destroys them. 



A. atramentarius. Common about the roots of old trees, &c. 



A. micaceus. Also common at the roots and stumps of trees, sometimes in 

 prodigious numbers. 



A. cinereus. Not very plentiful ; though I have met with many, in Coaver 

 garden, in rich soil. April 13tli, 1853. 



A. niveus. This is a veiy pretty Agaric, when young; rather common in 

 rich meadows, on horse dung. Oct. 1851. 



A. plicatilis. Common on dung in pastures ; very delicate and fragile. 



A. Henderionii. This is the most delicate, fragile, and fugacious fungus I 



