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on healthy grasses, &c. and not oozing out, or in the least degree appearing to grow from them. Sometimes it runs over dead leaves, &c. in woods and other places. It decays like the last, varying according to the weather, and is often smpother coated, in some parts occasionally whiter, as if bleached. It occurs after rain in autumn.

Fig. 3. R. carnosa. Bull. 424. fig. 1.

THIS casually falls (if I may so say) on thriving grasses, &c. It is very nearly allied to R. alba., being cottony, like that, on the outside, but more condensed within, holding a black powder in somewhat labyrinthiform cells, like the two former.

Fig. 4. R. cerea.

PERHAPS a variety of the last dried somewhat waxy before it was quite ripe, as sometimes happens to some of the Fungus tribe.


TAB. CD.

Fig. I. LYCOPERDON echiniformis.

This may possibly be a variety of L. smiplex, t. 272? The cracks in the skin are perhaps caused by drying suddenly.

Fig. 2. L. Epidendrum.

A VARIETY in a very luxurious and most state, as I have often dete6led it in Kensington Gardens, though in smaller quantities.

Fig. 3. The same in a later state.

THESE two figures are taken from drawings made by Miss Browne, of Netherset, near Norwich.

Fig. 4. Mucor fulva.

THIS grew on rats' dung. The stipes is of a transparent white, tapering upwards; the head round, composed of a yellow powder, with a few pellucid drops of moisture attached to it in different parts.