OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



1 1. Reddi/fj-brown Alu/hrome, with red zones -or circles round an Um- 

 bilicus in the center, and fiejh-coloured gills and pedicle (x). In alpine 

 woods. In the rectory-wood at Simonbitrn, frequent, in Auguft 

 and September, under oak-trees. The pedicle is ihort, thick, 

 and cylindric, an inch or an inch and a half long, of a pale red 

 or flelh-colour. The head turns in at the edges, regularly deep- 

 ening from the rim to the center, forming a concave or Umbilicus, 

 with beautiful zones or circles round it, of a pale red, on a red- 

 dim-brown ground, from two to four inches in diameter. The 

 gills arc clofe fet, of a pale red or flefli colour, and turn white 

 by age. It is beautiful in its younger ftate, and keeps its colours 

 a long time in drying. 



12. Vijcid deep green Mii/Jjrome, 'with a "white circle round the eJ^s, 

 and white ^'//jy and a white anulated pedicle (y). In the bank of 

 wood oppofite to the upper end of the rectory-den at Simonburn, not 

 unfrequent in September among moiles, and on rotten flicks, 

 with the fmall violet or amethyftine Muflirome. The pedicle is 

 white, {lender and tubulous, an inch and a half or two inches 

 long, with an anular permanent membrane toward the top. The 

 head is hemifph^rical, of a deep green, with a circle of bright 

 white at the edges, a little vifcid andglofly, an inch in diameter. 

 The gills are thick and not very clofe, of a bright white. It 



(x) Fungus pileo ex fufco rubens, in medio umbilicatus, zonis rubeUis cinftus, margine 



inflexo, lamellis carneis, ftipite cameo cylindrico . . 



Fungus la&efcens, acris, pileolo ampliore, centro cavo, & fubfufco, reliqua parte zonuiis 

 circularibus lateritii coloris dilutis, & faturis aheniatun pofuis veluti fafctata, lamellis, & 

 pediculo albis. Micbe:. Gen. PI. p. 143. Amanita major ru'-efcens, aut fubfulva, pediculo 

 brcvi, lamellis crebtis, albentibus. Dill. Gill. p. 181. /L 'eutjn. Toum. i. p. 45. 



(y) Fungus pileolo vifcido, intcnfe viiidi, margine, lamellis, & ftipite rnalato albis. 



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