The fibrous root in A. latus is often remarkable and 

 confpicuous ; tafte infipid, leaving an unpleafant fen- 

 fation in the throat. I fufpedt this to be A. cervinus, 

 SchasfF. t. lo, and leoninus, t. 48, of the fame author. 



TAB. CIX. 



AGARICUS FLABELLiFORMis. With. ed. yv. 4. 302. 



SEMIPETIOLATUS. Lightf. IO30. 



sTYPTicus. BulL t. 140. &: t. SSJ^f- ^' 



V ERY frequent on cut ftumps of oaks, &;c. in the 

 beginning of the autumnal feafon, refembling lightifli 

 tanned leather. If dry weather continually occurs it 

 will become very dry, white, and fcurfy ; if wet, com- 

 monly of a deep tan colour all over. The autumnal 

 plants may be found in the following fpring, in their 

 latter Hate, giving it fomewhat a new appearance ; but 

 the ftipes is fo ftrongly charadterifed by fpreading to- 

 wards the lamellae, it can never be miftaken when 

 once known ; not to mention the beautiful ramifying 

 of the lamellae, which feems to have been overlooked. 

 Is not this A. lateralis of Hudfon ? 



TAB. ex. 



BOLETUS AURANTiAcus. Bull. t. 236 &: /. 489. With, 

 ed, 3. v'. 4. 312. 



In woods not unfrequent, generally growing fepa- 

 rately, and often very large. I found fome in Peck- 

 ham Wood in the autumn of 1795, eight inches high, 

 and the pileus nearly as much in diameter ; the latter 

 being fomewhat conical, and in colour giving an idea 

 of the red calx of iron, or crocus martis. Its furface is 

 a little rough, and the margin hangs a little over the 

 edges below the pores, which are always pale brown, 

 not attached, but rounded off at the bafe from the 

 ftipes, which is roughly covered with dark brown 

 powder in irregular reticulations. It is cylindrical, but 

 fmalleft at the top. May not Boletus procerus of fome 

 authors belong to this in a young ftate ? I have fome 

 models of varieties which .feem to confirm fuch an 

 idea. 



