TAB. XCIX. 



AGARICUS ECHiNATirs. 



1 HIS is of an elaftic jelly-like fubftance, fimilar 

 to Agaricus mollis. The gills divaricate from a little 

 eccentric button of a white downy fubftance oppofite to 

 the attachment by ^:he pileus, which is rough with 

 hairs and rigid points intermixed. Mr. Pitchford firft 

 lliewed me fpecimens of this plant at Norwich. I have 

 fince found it in abundance on a decaying maple in 

 Greenwich-park. 



TAB. C. 



CLAVARIA PHOSPHOREA. 



RHIZOMORPHA fragilis. Roth. Crypt, minus nota^j. 

 HIMANTIA UMBR I N A. Perfoon Dijf. metb.fung.gen. 73. 



AGARICUM NIGRUM RETICULATUM COMPRESSUM, 



&c. Michel. Gen. 125. t. 66. /. 3. 



FUNGUS NIGER COMPRESSUS, VARIE DIVARICATUS 

 ET IMPLEXUS INTER LIGNUM ET CORTICEM. 



Raii Syn. 15. 



Found in a wine cellar in Little St. Helens, London, 

 creeping among faw-duft and bottles in the autumn of 

 1796, communicated by Mr. B. M. Forfter. It is re- 

 markable for being luminous in the dark, when frefli, 

 at the ends of the fhoots. Mr. Forfter has doubted 

 whether this phofphoric appearance may not be 

 owing to fome vinous moifture imbibed, rather than 

 a natural property of the fungus. 



