verted cones and other fhapes. The porous furface is 

 very unequal, forming various reticulations and finufes. 

 Their colour varies from yellow to orange, or a bright 

 red brown. The whole fru£lification often forms a 

 circle from one to fix or eight inches in diameter, fur- 

 rounded with an outer fubfi:ance, tender, and pithy or 

 cottony, of a pale brown. 1 he upper part is commonly 

 clothed with a white mucor. 1 his pithy fubftance, 

 without fru6lification, is often found by itfelf, and is 

 very dry ; whence the Englifli name of dry rot : yet as 

 the fructification is feldom without drops of water re- 

 fembling tears, the Latin n-Sivne lachrymans^ or weeping, 

 has been given. Dr. Withering's reference to Bolton 

 makes it appear he never faw the plant. The latter 

 feems unwilling to perfuade himfelf that his figure, 

 tab. 167, was B. lachrynians, and could only reconcile it 

 ■by the pores " having fomewhat the appearance of 

 falling tears." It is certainly a very different fpecies, 

 and, as he fays, agrees well with his B. obliquus^ tab. 74. 



TAB. CXIV. 



PEZIZA RADICULATA. 



Found in Wanfted Garden, EfTex, OcSt. 13th, 1794, 

 and in the autumn of 1795, rooted up to the cup in lit- 

 ter and earth. The infide is a thin lining of nearly an 

 uniform yellow. The outer fide and the radicle are 

 white, a little woolly ; the bottom of the cup being 

 fomewhat corrugated with irregular reticulations 

 or veins. This fungus fhrinks much in drying, and 

 becomes leathery. May the figure in Ray's Synopfis, 

 ed. 3. t. 24. f. 4. have been taken from a bad fpecimen 

 of this fpecies ^ 



TAB. CXV. 

 PEZIZA OCHROLEUCA. Btill. 1. 105./. I. IFith. ed. 3. 349. 



JN OT uncommon in the damp recefTes of moift woods. 

 It varies a little in the proportion of the pileus and 

 ftipes. The Rev. Mr. Abbott, of Bedford, fent me fpeci- 

 mens of this, among which one or two had a lliipes full 

 an inch long. It is fomewhat leathery and elaftic, 

 when frefh, but in drying flirinks much, and becomes 

 hardifh and horny. 



