I02S CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



The ftalk is generally a little crooked ; of the flze 

 of a pin, nftular, brittle, and either whicifh or 

 ftraw-color'd. 



The Pilcus is about the fize of a pin's head, 

 fometimes a little bigger, convex, the rim 

 eontradied around the italk, and either of a 

 yellow or orange color. 



The gills are but very few in number •, and either 

 white or yellow. 



** ParaJItici, acaules^ dimidiati. 



quercims A. acaulis, lamellis labyrinthiformibuj, Sp. pL 



^^' 164. (Buxbaum. Cent. 5. t. \. f. i. mala. Vaill. 



par if. p. 3. tab. 1. fig. i. 2. Batarra. p. 72. 



tab. 0,%. fig. h. Schceffer. fung.tab. ^y. opt.) 



■:■ Oak Agaric. Anglis. 



i Upon the trunks of various trees and dry decay'd 



wood frequent, all the year round. 

 - . The fubftance of this is dry, tough, and coria- 



ceous •, the color throughout a pale yellowifli 

 brown, like that of a cork, which it alfo greatly 

 '-■ ■ refembles in its internal fubftance. 



It is of a femicircular figure, fix or eight inches 



- Vvfide, one or two thick, and grows on to the 



trunks of trees feffile and horizontal. 



The upper furface is uneven, being imbricated 



with tough fcales lying over one another, fo 



