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detachment of the gills shown on the plate is not on the original 
drawing. 
188. Coprinus aTramMEeNntaRIus Fr. The original is partially 
coloured and much larger than the plate. Sowerby calls his 
plant fimetarius. Fries, from an examination of the plate only, 
makes it C. atramentarius; but both drawing and plate are more 
like the form soboliferus Fr., now usually regarded as a species. 
The following note is on the original: «A great quantity of burnt 
coffee that was brought from the fire at Walbrook produced this 
fungus in abundance, the pileus somewhat pinky and a great deal 
of farinaceous roughness on the pileus like the sugary appearance 
on A. congregatus the top of the gills pinky.” 
89. Coprinus comatus Fr. This is made up from three draw- 
ings, all in outline except a shaded section. 
Ponyrorus rurescens Fr. There is a coloured original of 
one colour e other not. The lower figure on the plate is not 
on the original. The proof-plate in the museum is uncoloured. 
OLYPORUS PERENNIS riginal is an uncoloured 
through the pileus on the plate. On the back of the drawing are 
three other pencil sketches of the same species. There is one 
id.” 
193. Dxpatxa conrracosa Pers. The original is an uncoloured 
pencil sketch without notes. 
pileus is carmine or scarlet-rose. The plate has the pilei claret- 
colour; this is not like the original with its accompanying note 
or like nature. 
198. GxasreR rornicatus Fr. The original is an uncoloured 
pencil sketch of the slightest possible character, and only slightly 
agreeing with the plate. On the drawing is a sketch of threads 
spores, with an asterisk ; a duplicate asterisk is on the profuse 
cloud of spores seen issuing from the osteolum. 
BEROSA Sow. The original, with the exception 
of part of the supporting branch, is wholly coloured. The plate is 
_ reversed. There are four groups of clubs on the plate, but only 
section on the drawing is twice the diameter of the figure on the 
P and nearly twice the height; it is labelled ‘‘hollow ” *sollid” 
se. 
te, 
_ In reference to the hollow apex and solid ba 
