Coloured Figures of English Fungi Or Mushrooms, Volume 2

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J. Davis, 1799
 

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Page 182 - 12 to 18 inches in length, and from a quarter of an inch to an inch " or more in diameter. Combined with the usual sweetness of " liquurice root, this variety has a feebly bitter taste.
Page 143 - Fung.,"' t. 148; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 66 ; " Eng. Flo.," vp 190 ; Cooke's " Handbk," 1992. On modelling clay. Occasionally on. common black modelling clay, where, to the artist, it is a troublesome intruder, it being generally necessary to work the part again, to get rid of it. It is held to the clay by very fine attenuated cobweblike fibres from the sides, as it were, to assist the little knotty root (Sowerby). The Rev. MJ Berkeley, in whose possession Sowerby's original specimens were, kindly...
Page 198 - I had one dressed ; it was very luscious eating, full of rich gravy, with a little of the flavour of mussels.
Page 123 - ... tan-coloured, black-streaked pileus, 10-12.5 cent. (4-5 in.) broad, which is perhaps a form of A. portentosus disguised by difference of colour. In woods, chiefly pine. Uncommon. Autumn. Pileus dirty yellow or nearly white ; gills whitish and thickest near the stem, somewhat flattened as it were by separating from it in a peculiar manner, and partly adhering to each other.
Page 143 - Spicilegium botanicum, 1. 12.) was fent me from Holt in Norfolk by the Rev. RB Francis, who found it on a plaftered wall of a ball-room.
Page 176 - FIRST found this in the outfide gallery above the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, April 5th, 1794, on a cindery fubftance.
Page 143 - ... altogether a gluten, or jelly. The pileus has generally a thick glutinous...

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