find described, I therefore take upon me to distinguish it 

 by a trivial name. The present figure is of the middle size, 

 and has the general character of the species; some of the 

 specimens were smaller, and some nearly twice the size. 

 Stem cylindrical, nearly solid and central, about half the 

 width of the pileus, and about twice as long as it is thick, 

 flecked with a warm brown as far as to where the pileus 

 was attached, then whiter; white and blush-coloured with- 

 in, probably it has sometimes a rugged or cobwebby annulus. 

 A few obscure brown radicles. Gills about three in the set, 

 scarcely fixed, pale bufi*, with a blush shade more or less 

 conspicuous, curving with the pileus at the margin. Pileus 

 bluntly bossed curving inwards at the margin, flecked with 

 a fine warm brown and somewhat viscous, white within, 

 and rather thick. 



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TAB. CCCCXVII. 



AGARICUS LANATUS. 



I GATHERED these on the delightful Mount Edgecumbe 

 in August, IS 12, where I had the most elevated pleasure 

 I ever felt in this life, in contemplating the sublime ways of 

 Providence, every aspect, hill and dale, bespoke its con- 

 trivance, a charming lesson for mortals, that 



" Nought was made in Tain, or not for admirable ends'." 



It was perhaps the more felt from the chance that brought 

 me to Plymouth, (viz.) to inspect H. M. S. the Queen 

 Charlotte, with a view to ascertain, if possible, what might 

 be adviseable to prevent the spreading of the Fungi, &c.* 

 I was thus brought to ascertain a new species of t!ie Fungus 

 tribe; it grew on a few dead branches of a hard or rough 

 grown Sloe-bush, evidently roughened by its peculiar aspect 

 at certain seasons, and liable occasionally to premature 

 decay, thus becoming food for a parasite, a pretty little 

 Agaric with a rather solid cylindrical pithy stipes thinnest 

 at the top, broAvn outside with woolly fibres, lighter within: 

 lamella in threes, partly fixed, broadish for the size, Avhitish 

 brown: pileus rather thin, involute at the edges, semi- 

 orbicular, and thickly covered with brown tufted or pointed 

 bundled woolly fibres. 



* I presume tliis was the era of tlie worst examples of the want of due and proper 

 atlention to tlie manasjement of wood: the Ship was saved by my advice, i think 

 much pains has since been taken by indiTiduals, I hope according with my theory, 

 without mistaking the principles. 



