TAB. LXVIII. 



AGARICUS TiGRiNus. Bull t. 70. 



1 HAVE been favoured with recent fpecimens of this 

 pretty fpecies by Thomas Walford, Efq. of Birdbrook 

 in Ellex, who gathered them from an aih in his planta- 

 tions in September laft. Some were found growing 

 from the fides, fomewhat horizontally, others near the 

 root, upright, in clufters or fmgle. When frefli they are 

 very tender and eafily lacerated; when dry coriaceous, 

 and the ftipes is of a very folid and firm texture. I have 

 fpecimens which accord fo well with Schaeffer's Aga- 

 ricus tubo'formis^ tab. 248 and 249, that I think them va- 

 rieties of this fpecies. The tigrinus in the latter flate 

 has ferrated gills, and much refembles K.fquamofus. 



TAB. LXIX. 



CLAVARIA DiGiTATA. Linn. Sp. PI. 1652. 

 SPH^RIA DIGITATA. Bull. t. 220. 



Jr OUND frequently near the roots of old or decaying 

 poplars in Kenfington Gardens, and at Lambeth. I once 

 found fome at the root of an elder at Batterfea. They 

 commence growing very early in the fpring, and conti- 

 nue through the mmmer, ripening their capfules in 

 autumn annually. Though at firfl fomewhat pointed, 

 and covered with a whitilh dull or farina, as it advances 

 this fungus alTumes a more conical form, and the farina 

 is more on the top. It finally becomes blunter, and the 

 head is covered with fphaerules copioufly difcharging 

 a denfe black foot-like powder. The inner fubflance 

 is very white and folid, the fibres diverging from the 

 centre upwards: in breaking they form an inverted 

 cone. This fpecies is frequently very fportive. 



TAB. LXX. 



HELVELLA gelatinosa. Bull. tab. ^-ji,. Jig. ^. 



JN EARLY a gelly when frefh and young, but harder 

 and fomewhat compreffed when at maturity. The 

 largeft was fent me from Bedford ; the others I have 

 found in different woods in autumn. 



