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6 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



flumps of fallen oaks. I never met with it on the flumps of any 

 other trees. It is three quarters of an inch in diameter, and in 

 its mature flate covered with a white powder. The gills are fine 

 and clofe. It is foft, pellucid, and nutant on the leaft motion. 

 It is fometimes deformed, by growing in groups one over 

 another. 



1 8. Small, yello'wiJJj-'white Auriculate-MaJl^rome^ ivith gills of the 

 fame colour (}. On the trunks of old elms, by waters, in hori- 

 zontal groups. It is frequent in the rectory- wood at Simonburn; 

 alfo at the bottom of the adjoining wood at Tecket, in autumn, by 

 the brook. It is fometimes disfigured, by its numbers grow- 

 ing over one another, horizontally. 



19. There is a VARIETY of it on the fame trees in autumn with 

 large laciniated lobes (gj t very beautiful. 



20. There is another Variety refembling a fmall Piften (h). 



2 1 . Small, 'white, Auriculate-MuJhrome, "with 'white Gilts (i). On 

 the decayed flalks of plants in wood-bottoms, frequent. It is 



(f) Agaricum auriculas, vel flabelli forma, fuperne fubobfcurum, inferne album, & la- 

 mel'a'um. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 123. n. 4. t. 65. f. I. 



(g) Agarico-fungus-carnofua ex albo flavefcens ad ora lobis laciniatis, fubtus lamellatus. 



(b) Agaricus parvus lamellatus p?tunculi forma elegans. Dill. Gift. p. 192. Raj. Syn. 

 Hi. p. 21. n. 23. Fungus parvus lamellatus peftunculi forma alno adnafcens. Vaill. Bot. 

 P<iris. p. 70. n. 63. t. 10. f. i. 



(i) A garico-fungus minimus, tencr, albus. Hall. Kelv. p. 58. Agaricus lamellatus mi- 

 nimus albus. Buxlaum. Cent, v. t. 7. f. 3. 



very 



