Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms (1797) - Page 16

T A B. VI.

RETICULARIA SINUOSA Wavy net-fungus Bulliard t.

FOUND in woods and under damp hedges, growing parasitically on various decayed herbage. Bulliard's name is very apt.

T A B. VII.

AGARICUS GLUTINOSUS Glutinous mushroom Schæff. t. 26. f. 1, 2, 3, 4.
A. LIMACINUS Slug-like mushroom Dickf. fasc. 1. t. 15.
— VELATUS Veiled mushroom With. vol. 3. 290.

GATHERED in a fir wood near Bungay, Suffolk, in company with Mr. Woodward, to whose accuracy the botany of England is so much indebted. I have also found it in Essex.

The gluten gluten: sticky, mucilaginous substance which envelops this plant is of a very singular nature, being extended from the edge of the pileus pileus: the cap of a mushroom to the stipes stipes: the stalk of a mushroom, and passing the gills without touching them. As it recedes or dissolves, it leaves a portion of a cobweb substance, accompanied by a fine powder. If this powder be the seed, may the gluten contain anything analogous to pollen?

T A B. VIII.

AGARICUS LIMACINUS.
A. LIMACINUS Schæff. t. 312?

FOUND very abundantly in an airy, hilly aspect among firs in Sir William Jerningham's plantations at Coffey near Norwich, Oct. 1794. It agrees with Schæffer's limacinus in the yellowness of the gills, but