CRYPTOGAMIA. gee 
sented in pl. 1. at H. to shew (a) the Rinc; (2) th 
SteM 3 (c/ the Przeus, ; Pegs 
The following are the principal discoveries of | Hepwie 
on the subject of Fungi. 
AGA’RICUS (Amanita) arborea mollis, coloris exacte 
crocei, Dill, Giss. p. 182. 
On dividing a plant of this species longitudinally 
through the middle, before the curtain had began to sepa- 
tate from the edge of the Pileus, the whole inner surface 
appeared white; but whilst my attention had been arrested 
by some still whiter lines observable in the flesh of the 
Pileus and. of the stem, the upper and inner surface of the 
curtain changed to a violet, and in a short time to a 
brownish colour, On nicely raising a small portion of 
this surface, and viewing it under high magnifiers, I dis- 
covered pellucid succulent vessels, and innumerable oval 
globules connected therewith, of a dilute brown colour. 
The part from which this portion had been taken away 
did not change colour again. 
I next examined a portion taken from one of the gills, 
whilst it was yet white. It was divisible, though not rea- 
dily, into twojlamine. The lower edge was thickly set 
with tender cylindrical substances, some of which had a 
lobule at their extremities, but others not. The gill | 
itself appeared of a reticulated structure, with larger and 
more distinct spots, a little raised. : ae 
In another older plant of the same species, wherein the 
curtain was torn, the pileus pretty fully expanded, and the 
gills turned yellow, the upper part of the stem began to be 
tinged by a brown powder shed from the gills. It was 
evident, on examination, that this brown powder was the 
seeds, and that it proceeded from the larger spots before 
observed in the gill, the two lamin of which now readily 
separated. =. : 
Pl. xvi. f. 88. A view of the plant cut down length- 
wise. 
f, 89. Strings of the Stamens ve 
f. 90. A portion of the Gill, to s 
fi-9¥.-The ripe-seeds. © 9° bed Bes 
There is therefore reason to believe that the stamens 
are the globules attached to the threads found within the 
much magnified. | 
ew the sitive seeds. 
