SOWERBY’S DRAWINGS OF FUNGI 261 
845. Ponyporus nispipus Fr. This plate r made up from tw 
very much larger coloured drawings. On the back of the diiallot 
drawing is written, ‘‘ on apple trees essex '’—** +1794,” and ‘in 
Kensington G® on an ash i in a young bud sisciid on the 6 but 14 inches 
eg Sept 20 1795. fine specimens more than 8 inches in semi 
diameter from the tree the sides and disc in proportion making an 
half circle atout .... inches = the thickest part but in that 
respect very irregular in portions.’’ There is also a slight pencil 
sketch. Of the three parts of the plate, the upper does not exist 
on the originals, the central projects 4 in. more than copy and the 
hei } in. more, the lower portion is 2} in g 
with the height the same portions are therefore very 
different in the plate and on the originals. drawi 
the coe of a third group of this species 8} in. Alecas and 64 in. 
in projec 
46. oa RULIUS TREMELLOsus Schrad. This plant, named o 
the plate Boletus arboreus, is placed by Fries under Borutek 
iowa ie e plate is wholly unlike the original drawing ; 
e no notes. In the letterpress description Sowerby says 
the plant grows on rotten willows and an old o 
In rainy weather it is of a jelly-like substance; in dry, horny.” 
i wing clearly represents erulius tremellosus, to 
r, ho 
M. gate at Fries, under the latter species, says, 
“DB. ar in Bee t. 846 hac forte pertinet.’’ In the British 
Museum ae? is a coloured ‘iaeink of M. treme/losus made for the 
Rev. M. J. Be agit and dated 1837. On this drawing is written, 
“certainly Bol. arboreus E. F. 846” and ‘the texture agrees 
i ‘J. D.C 
the flesh-coloured veins of the original are replaced by rusty-brown 
pores on the plate. In fact the plate only bears a remote resem- 
blance to the original. 
849. Merutius corrum Fr. On the Museum plate—not the 
drawing—of the las acne species there are two faint pencil 
outlines, which are apparently the sar of Sowerby’s i. 849— 
Fries Sanwoos this pla a under M. , p. 849. aplante 
ie Fries under M..corium, but at ss “492 a hs makes ie m to 
leas 
ae Corticrum caruteum Fr. This plate is made up from a 
coloured original. On the drawing is written, ‘“‘ embrio 
of auricularia. 
61. Lextinus vunpinus Fr. The original is an uncoloured 
pencil drawing. 
3. Agaricus (Currocyse) cyatnirormis Fr. The original is 
- much larger, the pileus being 44 in. Samat to the Bhi in. of the 
