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TAB. LXXVI.

AGARICUS terreus. With. v. 3. 311.

Occasionally a very common plant, particularly in pine groves, clustering and often forming very large circles. Sometimes it grows erect, and the whole surface is smooth; more generally cracked and distorted, or assuming variety of appearances. See Schæffer's A. multiformis, tab. 14. undoubtedly a sportive variety.

TAB. LXXVII.

AGARICUS aureus. Bull. t. 92.
AGARICUS  filamentosus. Schæff. t. 209.

On stumps of hornbeam, &c. not very common, sometimes 24 inches in circumference. I have generally found it in September, varying but little in colour or other respects. I believe it but little known in the perfect state, and perhaps a variety of this may be the A. pilosus of Withering, 295, confounded with A. floccosus, which I can shew by specimens to be a diftinct plant. May not this be Schæffer's A. obscurus also?

TAB. LXXVIII.

PEZIZA coccinea. Huds. 636. Bull. t. 474. Schæff. t. 148.

I have many dried specimens of this plant, and cannot agree with Dr. Withering, that it is the same species with P. epidendra.