102 8 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



The ftalk is generally a little crooked ; of the Cu.^ 

 of a pin, fiftular, brittle, and either whitifli or 

 ftraw-color'd. 



The Pikus is about the fize of a pin's head, 

 fometimes a little bigger, convex, the rim 

 contrafled around the ftalk, and either of a 

 yellow or orange color. 



The gills are but very few in number ; and either 

 white or yellow. 



** Para/tiici^ acaules, dimidiati. 



q.mrc'inus A. acaulis, lamellis labyrinthtformibus, Sp. pi, 



^'•' 164. (Buxhawm. Cent. 5. t, \. f. i. mala. Valll. 



par if. p. 3. tab. i. fig. i. 2. Batarra. p. yz, 



tab. ^S.fig. A. Sck>(£ffer.fung. tab. ^y. opt.) 



Oak Agaric. Anglis. 



Upon the trunks of various trees and dry decay'd 



wood frequent, all the year round. 

 The fubftance of this is dry, tough, and coria- 

 ceous ; the color throughout a pale yellowifh' 

 brown, like that of a cork, which it alfo greatly 

 refembles in its internal fubftance. 

 It is of a femicircular figure, fix or eight inches 

 Wide, one or two thick, and grows on to the 

 trunks of trees feffile and horizontal. 

 The upper furface is uneven, being imbricated 

 with tough fcales lying over one another, fo 



as- 



