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in diameter. The gills are of various orders, and moderately 

 clofe fct. It is entirely of a beautiful purple or violet colour, 

 but of fhort duration, foon changing to a pale dull purple, or 

 dufky yellow. 



6. Small violet, or amethyftine MuJJjrome (s). In the bank of wood 

 oppofite to the upper end of the rectory den at Simonburn, plenti- 

 fully in September, among mofTes, and on rotten flicks under 

 the deciduous putrid leaves. It is of a firm texture. The ftalk 

 or pedicle is flender, tubulous, and thickeft at the bottom. The 

 head is convex, and final 1, for the length of the ftalk, which is 

 from an inch to two inches and a half. The gills are thick, and 

 thin fet. It is all over of a beautiful violet or amathyftine colour, 

 with a farina on the head, like what we fee on floes. The gills 

 hold their colour a long time, but the head foon lofes its bloom, 

 changing to a pale bluifh-grey. 



7. Small blue and green Mujhrome, <with blue and rofe-coloured gills (t). 

 Among the mofs on the trunks of old trees in thick woods. I ob- 

 ferved it on the lower part of the mofly trunk of a Scotch elm in 

 the bank of wood by the brook below Teckct, plentifully, in Octo- 

 ber. The pedicle is an inch long, and flender, of a fine blue 

 with an admixture of green. The head is hasmifphccrical, and of 



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(s) Fungus dilute violaceus, pileolo parvo, pediculo gracili, pnealto, fiftulofj. Michel. 

 Gen. PI. p. 150. n. 8. Fungus durior totus amethyftinus, lamellis craffioribus. Hall. 

 Helv. p. 52. n. 87. Fungus minor amethyftinus. Vaill. Bot. Paris, p. 67. n, 43. Fun- 

 gus czruleus minor pediculo gracili. Buxbaum. Cent. 4. t. 12. f. i. 



(t) Fungus parvus elegans, Cantharidum colorem, fplendorem & odorem aemulans, pile- 

 olo cum veriice laevi, reliqua parte pulchre ftriato, lamellis carnei;, pediculo cylindrico 

 fiftulofo. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 168. Striis Ji/iert % cilore adetdit. Fungus ex cxruleo viridis, 

 lamellis ca:ruleo-rofvis. Hull. Helv. p. 51. n. 83. 



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