OF TREES AND PLANTS, 



4. Purple efculent MuJJjrome, ivitb -white gills, and a ivbits pedicle (<}). 

 In dry fhady places. I obfcrved it in a lane at the north end of a 

 fmall village called Donkley-Wood, near Hordke, upon North Tyne y 

 near Bellingham, in September, plentifully. The pedicle is fliort, 

 thick, and not bulbous. The head is a little deprefled in the 

 center, rough at the edges, and ftriated ; fometimes of a beauti- 

 ful purplifli-red, and fometiraes of a rofe-colour, with an ad- 

 mixture of white. The gills are thick, and thin fet, with inter- 

 mediate rugae, or a kind of half gills. They are white, and in 

 their older flate yellowifh. 



5. Efculent purple Mufhrome, with a bulbous pedicle (r). In Woods, 

 in October and November, frequent. The pedicle on its firft 

 rifing is a thick bulb, protected from the chilling night-dews 

 and cold air by a clofe filky film, up to the very edges of its little 

 head. It rifes gradually higher ; but in its higheft ftate is very 

 fhort and thick, carrying a head of a vaft fize, fometimes a foot 



(q) Fungus major rubefcens pediculo brevi craflb lamellis crebris albentibus. Raj. Syn. 

 iii. p. 4. n. 1 6. Fungus efculentus albus & fubpurpureus varius, lamellis prorfus albis. 

 Michel, Gen. PI. p. 155. n. 9. Fungus fubtus niveus, brevi petiolo, pileo ad oras rugofo, 

 varii colons. Hall. Helv. p. 39. n. 27. 



(r) Fungus efculentus bulbofus dilute purpureus. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 149. n. i. t. 74. 

 f. I. Hall. Helv. p. 52. n. 88. Fungus totus violaceus exitialis. Boccon. Mus. Fifi- 

 ca. t. ad p. 301. f. 5. Fungus major violaceus. Vaill. Bot. Paris, p. 67. n. 45. Fungus 

 caeruleus major. Buxbaum. Cent. 4. t. 9. Et, Fungus eleganter cseruleus pediculo bulbofo. 

 Ejufd. Plant, circa HAL. p. 121. Et, Fungus lividus pediculo bulbofo. Ejufd. Cent. 4. 

 t. 22. Agaricus caulefcens, pilei margine violaceo tomentofo, ftipite cserulefcentc lana 

 ferruginea. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 1066. 



@ Amanita pediculo bulbiformi, pileo fufco, lamellis, & pediculo brevi bulbiformi. Dill. 

 GUT. p. 184. 



y. Fungus pileo magno orbiculari fublivido, lamellis albis, pediculo brevi bulbiformi vio- 

 laceo. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 3. n. 13. 



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