readily be distinguished by the narrow bright fox-coloured gills. Among the longer grass, refused by cattle, it is drawn up, as in our tallest figure. When gathered in perfection it dries well. Is the A. Colus, With. 383, distinct from this?
TAB. XXXIV.
BOLETUS piperatus. Bulliard t. 451.
We believe this Boletus has appeared only in Bulliard's admirable work. It grows in tolerable plenty on Hainault Forest, towards Chigwell Row, Essex, though not hitherto mentioned as a native of this island, but we have reason to think it is not uncommon. The pores are very open and irregular, and sometimes so shallow as to be mere reticulations, as in some foreign Boleti. Its colour varies a little. The name expresses its pungent effect on the tongue and throat, like that of the Capsicum.
TAB. XXXV.
HELVELLA spatulata.
CLAVARIA Spathula. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 1. 21. With. V. 3. 450.
I gathered this fungus, in the autumn of 1794, in the plantations at Costesy near Norwich, in company with its original discoverer James Crowe, Esq. of Lakenham. It is to be found there every year in great abundance. As a species it is sufficiently distinct, though as to its genus, according to our present systems, somewhat obscure, being nearly equally allied to Peziza, Helvella, Lycoperdon, and Clavaria. The feeds are discharged in the form of smoke, from pores in the edges, and may perhaps be imbedded in the substance, as has been observed in Peziza vesiculosa.
