TAB. LXVIII.
AGARICUS tigrinus. Bull t. 70.
I have been favoured with recent specimens of this pretty species by Thomas Walford, Esq. of Birdbrook in Essex, who gathered them from an ash in his plantations in September last. Some were found growing from the sides, somewhat horizontally, others near the root, upright, in clusters or single. When fresh they are very tender and easily lacerated; when dry coriaceous, and the stipes is of a very solid and firm texture. I have specimens which accord so well with Schæffer's Agaricus tuboæformis, tab. 248 and 249, that I think them varieties of this species. The tigrinus in the latter state has serrated gills, and much resembles A. squamosus.
TAB. LXIX.
CLAVARIA digitata. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1652.
SPHÆRIA digitata. Bull. t. 220.
Found frequently near the roots of old or decaying poplars in Kensington Gardens, and at Lambeth. I once found some at the root of an elder at Battersea. They commence growing very early in the spring, and continue through the summer, ripening their capsules in autumn annually. Though at first somewhat pointed, and covered with a whitish dull or farina, as it advances this fungus assumes a more conical form, and the farina is more on the top. It finally becomes blunter, and the head is covered with sphærules copiously discharging a dense black foot-like powder. The inner substance is very white and solid, the fibres diverging from the centre upwards: in breaking they form an inverted cone. This species is frequently very sportive.
TAB. LXX.
HELVELLA gelatinosa. Bull. tab. 473. fig. 2.
Nearly a gelly when fresh and young, but harder and somewhat compressed when at maturity. The largest was sent me from Bedford; the others I have found in different woods in autumn.
