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turns rose-colour or crimson on being cut or broken; to this 
owerby has appended the remark,—‘‘ changes very red in cutting 
—fine mushroom tast,” and ‘ soft i in middle of stipes as a kind of 
pith liable to slip out in cutting.” There are he a in all, 
one represents a fine large specimen, with a sectio 
1. Sou A veRRUCOsUM Pers. The cial of this is a 
rough eneoloret panel sketch. 
813. Gra coL s Pers. The original of this is a very 
slight uneoloused penell pine the * ails on the plate do not 
ith 
quite agree wi rawing re is a water-colour drawing of 
this species in the "Dicks Sowerby Collection a agreeing with 
Dickson, f. 4, which is obviously ta ro ifferent 
ihe ace he Dickson-Sowerby drawing clearly represents the two 
plants on Sowerby’s plate; the unnatural cloud of sp seen 
issuing tae the smaller example on the plate is only Sa aie 
by a faint stain on the original drawing; the rays of the ou 
y 
peridium differ. Of the larger example the interior peridium e 
the drawing differs in shape from the plate, and many more orifices 
are shown. The rays of the outer peridium also differ, yet the 
Be example is meant to be represented in both drawing and plate. 
822. Agaricus (OmpuHatia) MuRALIS Sow. The upper figure, the 
middle and lower figures on the plate are only faint outlines on the 
original; the section is coloured in the drawing, but is not much 
like the plate. There are twelve other figures, all coloured on the 
original, large, small, and unengraved. There is a second drawing, 
made on parchment, of ten examples growing on two tufts of moss. 
A note says, ‘‘ var. of eburneus ?”’ 
323 aricus (Inocyse) rmwosus Bull. The stems in the 
original are darker in colour than on the plate, me there is a half- 
section of a stem and pileus. There is a seco rawing, un- 
engraved, of two examples and a complete iets 
324. Agaricus (Hypnotoma) aprenpicuLatus Bull. The original 
sketch of the — example is } in. more in diameter than the 
figure on the plate. The group on the left is uncoloured in the 
original, and there is a pencil group of six specimens. The colours 
on the drawing are less brassy ae on the plate. 
826. Potyrorus Vamtantu Fr. There is no original of this. 
827. Hypnum mempranaceum Bull. The original of this is an 
extremely slight uncoloured sketch with but little resemblance to 
the plate. On the drawing there is a small additional figure, not 
on the plate. The details “of spines are different in form on the 
drawing, and the example on the left of the plate is not on the 
original. 
828. Opontia Barpa-Jovis Fr. The original is a slight un- 
coloured pencil sketch without the grass of the plate. 
329. IraypHattus impupicus Fisch. There is no original of 
this. 
vista pLuMBEA Pers. ‘The original consists of four 
ian of which three are reproduced on the plate. They are not 
