argument, that thofe gathered in wet places or bad 

 weather are unwholefome. The varieties i, 2 and 3, 

 with the pileus acuminated, are moft certainly of this 

 defcription, and nearly proved fatal to a poor family 

 in Piccadilly, London, who were fo indifcreet as to 

 ftew a quantity (found in St. James's Green Park) for 

 breakfaft. See Mr. Everand Brande's account in Dr. 

 Bradley's Medical and Phy Ileal Journal of this month, 

 p. 41. Mr. Curtis did not conceive it had any bad qua- 

 lities, and called it A. glutinofus^ becaufe it is fre- 

 quently covered with a glutinous matter. 



TAB. CCXLIX. 

 AGARICUS PiLiPEs. 



This Agaric grew on a whitifli variety of A. pluni- 

 beus or A. Li/ieri mentioned tab. 245. It came to me 

 in a phial of Hungary water, and feemed all of one 

 colour, which it ftill retains. 



TAB. CCL. 



BOLETUS RUBEOLARius. Bull. 100 and 490. Jig. i. 



With. ed. 3. V. 4. 315. 

 LURiDUS. Scha-ff. 117. 



IN OT very rare. I have found it at Hornfey-wood, 

 and at Hainault foreft, Effex. My friend, the Rev. Mr. 

 Charles Abbot, fent me a fpecimen from Bedfordfliire. 

 The fine carmine, cinnabar, or vermillion-coloured 

 powder or feed, is often fo copioufly flied as to (lain 

 every thing that touches it, and is fo thick under the 

 pores as almoft to obfcure them. 



