Mr. Abbot for some uncommonly large plants gathered early in Oct. of the same year. Lord Visc. Lewisham brought me others late in Oct. and having also observed it myself, I judge it to have been that year rather plentiful. I have specimens from Wales, communicated by the Rev. Mr. Hugh Davies. I could not positively detect sphæaerules, although the velvety hairs which clothe the head appear, when strongly magnified, thickest towards the base. This species seems the connecting link between Sphæaria and Clavaria.
TAB. LXXXIV.
CLAVARIA ferruginea.
Found great quantities of this under the close shade of firs on a rising ground in Sir Wm. Jerningham's plantations near Norwich, Oct. 1794. The inside of the head is some what pithy; stipes a little rough on the upper part. It might easily be passed over as a small Agaric.
TAB. LXXXV.
TRICHIA turbinata. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 400.
CLATHRUS turbinatus. Huds. 632.
Very frequent on rotten stumps, &:c. in damp places either out of doors or in cellars. It may be found early in the morning, whitish, and resembling cream. At noon of the same day it becomes of a drier texture, with an outward skin, and is then yellow. The skin will often begin to separate, and the feeds to ripen the same evening, next morning leaving only the minute saucer-formed empty bases. If the fun shines upon them, they may happen to dry into a little horny substance.
