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holds its colour a long time in drying, except the gills, which 

 turn brownifh. 



13. Glojjy, dark-grey, conic Muforome, with ivhitt gills, and a -white, 

 bulbous, fall, emulated pedicle (z). In dry fhady paftures, in au- 

 tumn, not un frequent. The pedicle is four inches long, with 

 brown dots on a white ground, of a fine ihape, tapering from 

 the bafe to an anular permanent membrane, which in its younger 

 ilate clofes the mouth of the gills, like an opercnlum, and opens 

 on its farther expanfion, mewing their delicate whitenefs. The 

 head is of the fhape of a large obtufe cone, of a dark grey, or 

 afti-colour, of a'filky luftre, which it retains in drying. 



14. The great, ttihite funnel-like Mitfirome, -with white gills, and a 

 J/jort, "whfte, cylindric pedicle (a), is not uncommon in the openings, 



and on the borders, of alpine woods. I have obferved it with 

 the fmall fcarlet and gold-yellow mumrome in the rectory-wood 

 at Simonburn ; alfo on the borders of Ramjhoiv- wood, by the road- 

 fide, above the mill, near Work, in Tynedale, in autumn. The 

 pedicle is an inch long, and about as much in thicknefs. The 

 head is at firfl reflex at the edges, which afterwards gradually 

 rife upwards, and form a great hollow, like a funnel, fomc- 

 times five inches deep, and twelve inches over at the brims. The 

 gills are very clofe, with intermediate fhorter ones, or a kind of 



fzj Fungus pilco conico cinereo laete nigrefcens, lamellis albis, ftipite procero albo bul- 

 bofo, anulo non fugaci cinlo. 



(a) Fungus lu&eus, maximus, infundibuli forma. VallL Bot. Par. p. 61. Amanita 

 major lafte&ens, pileo rx albo purpurafcenie, Samellis crcbris, caulebrevi. Martjn. Tourn. 

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