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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Mr.Krurs 
dry soil towards the outside of the woods or where the trees are thin. 
(Brislington wood, above the Avon, near Bristol. Aug. E.) 
July—Sept. 
Var. 2. Gills branched, but not anastomosing : pileus nearly flat. 
Bull. 505. 1 —Batsch. 37. 
Grows with the preceding. The whole plant more regular in growth. 
Mr. Bulliard has figured another variety with a black stem, pi. 505. f. 2. 
but I have not yet heard of its being found here. Ag. pseudo-unctuosus. 
Batsch.* 
M. tub^efoii'mis. Stem cylindrical: pileus funnel-shaped. 
Bolt. 106. 
Stem cylindrical, half an inch high, thickness of a pin, yellow. Pileus 
funnel-shaped, yellow, one-tenth to one-eighth of an inch over. Gills 
but little branched. Mr. Bolton says so little about this fungus in his 
description, that I have been obliged to give the preceding circumstances 
chiefly from his figures, but the appearance of the middlemost of the 
larger drawings makes me doubtful, whether what I have taken for veins, 
be not intended as shading. If so, the plant is really a Peziza. 
(Yellow Dwarf Funnel-shaped Merulius. E.) Peziza tuba. Bolt. 
Moist places, and near rills of water, fixed to the putrid stems of decayed 
plants. 
M. fce'tidus. Gills yellow : pileus brown, convex, scored : stem dark 
brown. 
Sowerby 21. 
Gills in pairs, shallow. 
Pileus nearly semi-globular, about three-quarters of an inch over. 
Stem hollow, cylindrical, hairy ; one inch high, thick as a swallow’s quill. 
(Semi-globular Hairy-stemmed Merulius. E.) First found by Mr. 
Relhan, in Madingly Wood, Cambridge. Aug. 
M. squam'ula. Stem bristle-shaped: pileus whitish, gently convex: 
gills a few plaits. 
(Sowerby 93. E.)— Batsch. 84. 
Stem reddish brown, slender as a bristle, very tender. Pileus dirty yellow 
white, gently convex. Gills a few imperfect plaits. Hardly one-tenth 
of an inch in height, and slender in proportion. Batsch. From half to 
one inch high. Gills four or five. Relhan. 
(Minute Bristle-stemmed Merulius. E.) Ag. sqamula. Batsch. 
Found by Batsch in the Autumn, affixed to the dead leaf of a poplar. 
Communicated to me by Mr. Relhan, who found it in Madingly Wood. 
(On decayed leaves, in February. Mr. Brown. E.) 
M. cornucopioi'des. (Bolt.) Stem twisted: pileus lobed: gills de- 
current, distant, three or four in a set. 
Bolt. 8— (Not Schaff. 9. nor yet 243. though that seems to be a Merulius. Not 
Battar 18. H. nor 20. B.)— (Purt. 12. E.) 
* The lovers of mushrooms may eat this with safety, but it is more tough and less 
highly flavoured than either Ag. or cades , or Ag- campestris. 
(This plant broiled with salt and pepper has much the flavour of a roasted coclde, 
and is esteemed a delicacy by the French, Encyc. Brit. E.) 
