TAB. xxr. 



MERULIUS FCETiDUs. 



L NDER the above name T was favovired with excel- 

 lent fpecimens of the fungus here dehneatcd, by the 

 Rev. Mr. Relhan, Augiill: lo, 1795, who found them in 

 Madingley wood near Cambridge ; nor has this fpecies, 

 to my knowledge, been before obferved. The fpeci- 

 mens changed but little in drying, except that they, 

 not unfortunately, lolf their original difagreeable gar- 

 lic-like odour. 



TAB. XXII. 



LYCOPERDON Carpobolus. Hudf.djifAf. IVitb.v.T,- aI^S- 



W E have feen this curious plant in many places. 

 The Rev. Mr. Abbot obligingly fent it from Lord 

 Oiror}''s fir plantation at Ampthill, gathered in 0£lober 

 1792. We had an opjX)rtunity of leeing it in a rather 

 remarkable fituation in May 1793, growing in the Duke 

 of Portland's hot-houfe at Bulftrode, on the edge of the 

 tub which contained that rare Eaft Indian aquatic the 

 Nymphcea Nelumbo. This was at the fame time a damp 

 and very hot ftation, the ftoves being at that time 

 heated to an unufual degree 



When youni^ thefe fungi are nearly covered with a 

 white cotton-like fubftance, fpreading down their fides, 

 and attaching them firmly to each other and to what- 

 ever they grow upon. This web ma)^ pollibly aifilt in 

 the expanlion of the yellow outer cafe when it throws 

 out the white globular part, which it does to the dilfance 

 of fix or eight inches, or more, making a fiight, but 

 diftindf, cracking found. At the fame time this outer 

 cafe burfis into {\\q. or feven rays or fegments, the cafe 

 immediately within pufliing itfelf forth, and adhering 

 to the ball ; which when fallen is an emj^ty tranfparcnt 

 veficle, with the inner cafe attached to its bottom, and 

 a hole through that cafe, by which probably the feeds 

 are difcharged. On difll-ifinj^ the ball previous to its 

 being thrown out, we find it i\\\\ of a whitilh fubllance. 

 When weak the i)lant only forces the ball to the points 

 of its rays, often drying with it in that pofition. 



