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the fame colour, but changes by age to a pale whitiih-grey. The 

 gills are thick for its fize, and not clofe let, of a blui(h-rofe-co- 

 lour. It is pellucid, and held up by the (talk to the light, or ly- 

 ing frefli in its higheit bloom on a table, has the beauty and 

 luflre of a polifhed gem. 



8. Small fcarlet MitJJjrome, with yelloiu gilts and a yellow pedicle (u). 

 In the openings of woods. In an opening by a broad flcxuous path 

 towards the eaft end of the rectory-wood at Siminburn, frequent, 

 in autumn, in fmall groups. The pedicle is an inch long, and 

 thick, of a gold yellow. The gills are thick, moderately dole 

 fet, and of the fame colour. The head is convex, an inch and a 

 half in diameter, of as bright a fcarlet as can be imagined, on 

 its firft rifing from under the herbage and fallen leaves ; but va- 

 nities by degrees to a reddifh yellow, out of its fhady fituation, 

 and, on being brought into ahoufe, with the earth about it, lan- 

 guifhes in a night's time to the fame colour. It is flefhy and 

 very brittle. 



9. Scarlet Mujhrome, 'with 'white JiJ/ile conic rays, "white gills, and a 

 *white bulbous pedicle (v). Under fir-trees, not unfrequent. I ob- 

 ferved it in confiderable plenty in a fir-grove at Brandon-\\\\\tz- 

 houfe, by the rivulet of BramiJJj, in September. The bulb is 

 thick and round, from which rifes a pedicle of a bright white, 



(u) Fungus montanus pileo coccineo, lamellis aureis, (lipite btevi aureo ciafliufculo. Fun- 

 gus coccineus, inferne auran'it coloris. D. BREYNIUS. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 159. Fun- 

 gus parvus, pileolo hemifphserico, defuper coccineo, inferne lamcllis aureis, pediculo i'umma 

 parte plerumque coccinca, ima vero auren. Ibitl. n. 2. 



(v) Fungus pileo coccineo radiis multifidis conicis albis varius lamellis crebris albis, pe- 

 diculo albo ad bafin globofo, 



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