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A 



N D I X. 



B 



O 



E 



I. 



CLXXVI. 



rengiferinus. 



BOLETUS. 



Agaric us ramo/us cornu reniferi refer ens. 

 hypoxylon <var. B. 



Blacks. Spec. Bot. p. 2, 

 Hud/on, -Angl. 639. 



/. I. 



Clavaria 



RAIN- DEER 



BOLETUS. 



TAB. 



CXXXVIII. 



IT has a bafe or pedeltal, confiding of brown fungous tubercles, the fize of hazel 

 nuts, adhering together by their fides, and forming an irregular knotty furface on 

 the upper fide ; on the under fide, where it adhered to the wood, it is fmooth and a little 

 hollow. The general ihape of the bafe is rcundifh ; but on one fide is an additional 

 piece of the fame fubltance, adhering to the reft by a narrow neck, producing a fingle 

 horn, which is curved, and throughout of the general footy colour of the plant. 



From near the centre of the bafe arifes, fingly, the principal item ; it emits near its 

 bottom ; a fmall horn growing horizontally, but curving upwards at the point. The 

 item above emits two branches, which diverge very little from its direction, as it were 

 embracing it their whole length. Thefe branches terminate in fingered divifions, which 

 are of a pale ochre colour. At the height where thefe branches terminate, the item 

 emits a fingle comprefled horn, an inch long, the upper part ochre coloured. About 

 three inches above this, the item begins to fpread out, and forms itfelf into a large open 

 expanfion, rudely refembling a fpatha of the Calla Indica, but is broader at both ex- 

 tremities; the margins are rolled back, and gently waved and lafciniated ; on the upper 

 fide, near the middle of the expanfion, is a projecting line, which feems to confiit of a 

 wrinkled membrane, hard and dry ; on the under fide, all round, the margin is of a 

 pale ochre colour, and full of angular pores, which have no proper tubes; all the reit 

 of the under fide is befet with tubes, placed in an oblique direction, their mouths torn 

 and lafciniated, but their lower parts cylindrical. Thefe tubes are largelt in the centre, 

 diminiihing gradually towards each fide, and they run a little way down the item, below 

 the bafe of the fpatha, the whole of which is of a pale yellow or ochre colour, except a 

 few clouds and ihades of a duiky brown, on the upper furface. A fide view is feen at a. 

 a front view at b. 



Befides this branch, the bafe produces three others ; one, which is the innermolt, is 

 nearly upright ; the other two grow at firit horizontally, and then curve gradually up- 

 wards. The firit of thefe has three principal divifions, each of which is fubdivided into 

 three or four white fingers. Another of the three emits branches from its fides, and 

 fuitains, at top, a lump or ball, of a fungous fubiiance, rudely refembling a human 

 head ; and in the direction that I placed the plant, to take its figure, this head was in 

 profile : On the neck is a yellow triangular fpot. The other branch is the ihorteft, and 

 terminates in feven white fingers. 



The colour of the bark is a dark fufcous brown, with a call of foot; the furface in 

 fome parts marked with longitudinal furrows, in others reticulated with rifing wrinkles ; 

 the internal fubltance white, dry, and elaitic. The height of the plant,- when freih, 

 near fourteen inches ; my figure is reduced by a fcale of twelve inches, on fix inches 

 ftandard. A fight of this curious Fungus was procured me by Mr. Thorsb y, of Leeds. 

 It grew on an old log of wood in a cellar, in that town. A. D. 1788. 



