148 
* tubefor’s 
mis. 
foe’tidus. 
4d 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Merulius. 
edge; stem short, solid; gills thick, branching. It is remark 
able in every respect; its bright yellow colour, venose gills, 
and particularly for its grateful smell, like ripe apricots, which 
it preserves in decay. Mr. SrackHousE.—The reticulation of 
the gills not represented in Scheff, 82 and 206, to which plates 
our authors refer. Major. Vettey.—Let me observe here once 
for all, that the plates of Schaffer seldom give an accurate re. 
presentation of the gills. 
Agaricus Cantharellus. Linn. Ray. Syn. p. 2. 2 5. Age 
chantarellus and alectorolophoides. Scheff. Ag. cantharellus. Bull. 
Ag. chantarellus. Bolt, Ag. luteolus. Batsch. Ag. cantharellus. 
fEarsham Wood, Suffolk. Mr. Woopwarp.—Woolhope 
Woods, and Caplar Hill, Herefordshire. Mr. Sracxnousz.— 
Single or in clusters: Red#Rock plantation, and on the south- 
west side of the large pool, Edgbaston, in dry soil towards 
the outside of the woods or where the trees are ~ 
uly—Sept. 
= Var. 2. Gills branched, but not anastomosing : pileus nearly 
thx) 
Bull. 505. 1—Batsch. 37. 
_ Grows with the preceding. The whole plant more regular in 
the growth, Mr, Bulliard te figured poner variety Sith. a 
black stem, pl. 505. f. 2; but I have not yet heard of its being 
found here. Ag. pseudo unctuosus. Batsch. 
The lovers of mushrooms may eat this with safety, but it is 
“more tough and less highly flavoured than either the Ag. orcades, 
or Ag. campestris. 
M. Stem cylindrical: pileus funnel-shaped. 
: Bolt. 106... a 
__ Stem cylindrical, 2 inch high, thickness of a pin, yellow. 
Pileus erg ery ie be sase 1-10th to 1-8th of an inch over. 
Gills but little ed. Mr. Bolton says so little about this 
in his description, that I have been obliged to give the preceding 
circumstances chiefly from his figures, but the appearance of the 
middlemost of the larger drawings makes me doubtful, whether 
what I have taken for veins, be not only intended as shading. 
If so, the plant is really a Peziza. oe 
Peziza tuba. Botton, Moist » and near rills of water, 
fixed to the putrid stems of decayed plants. 
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M.- Gills yellow: pileus brown, convex, scored: stem 
3 dark brown, Bee 
apekal Sowerby 21. 
Giits in pairs, shallow. — . 
Piceus nearly semi-globular, about 3 of an inchover. 
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