INTRODUCTION 



CONTINUED. 



IT cannot be improper to add an obfervation or two, concerning fomc 

 of the plants published in the former parts of this work, as they tend 

 to convey a clearer understanding of the refpedtive fpecies. 



Tab.. 14, Agaricus ferratis. The prefent year, 1791 , this plant grows 

 in abundance in the plantations about Fixby-Hall ; where I have examined 

 it in all its ftages. The pileus, which is at firft fmooth and of a deep 

 crimfon colour, grows to a large fize; and, as it increafes and expands, 

 the crimfon furface does not remain entire and expand with it, but breaks 

 into innumerable fmall lines or points, which retain their colour, and ap- 

 pear like fo many touches of a pencil, on the furface of the pileus, now 

 become yellow. The plant abides for a week or more, grows large and 

 tall, and the pileus at laft becomes foft and flabby ; in which ftate it is 

 well figured by Schoeffer, Tab. 84. 



Tab. 33. Agaricus plumofus. Since the publication of my firft volume, 

 I have found this plant to be furnifhed with a curtain, which is white and 

 very delicate ; it breaks and vaniihes in the infancy of the plant, and by 

 that means efcaped my notice when I drew the figure. 



Tab. 51. Fig. 2. Agaricus croceus. I have lately feen this plant in a 

 more perfect ftate than my figure reprefents. The pileus three inches in 

 diameter, of a ftrong faffron colour ; it turns brown in decay. 



e 2 Tab. 



