Coloured Figures of English Fungi Or Mushrooms, Volume 1

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J. Davis, 1797
 

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Page 113 - ... shapes. The sinuses vary from yellow to orange, or a bright red brown. The whole fructification often forms a circle from one to six or eight inches in diameter, surrounded with an outer substance tender and pithy or cottony, of a pale brown. The upper part is commonly clothed with a white mucor. This pithy substance, without fructification, is often found by itself, and is very dry ; whence the English name of Dry Rot ; yet, as the fructification is seldom without drops of water resembling tears,...
Page 113 - In damp places the fructification is very frequent, and has often an ex* tremely elegant appearance, hanging in inverted cones and other shapes. The sinuses vary from yellow to orange, or a bright red brown. The whole fructification often forms a circle from one to six or eight inches in diameter, surrounded with an outer substance tender and pithy or cottony, of a pale brown. The upper part is commonly clothed with a white mucor. This pithy substance, without fructification, is often found by itself,...
Page 113 - I3th, 1794, and in the autumn of 1795, rooted up to the cup in litter and earth. The infide is a thin lining of nearly an uniform yellow.
Page 5 - When young it is enveloped in a veil of gluten, which is durable on the dried fpecimen, and has a beautiful tranfparent appearance like ifinglafs.
Page 106 - When young the gills are moftly white, changing to pink in a few hours after gathering, or as it advances in age, till it fheds a muff-coloured powder, the gills then being brownim.
Page 48 - Morel, and much eileemed as an ingredient in fauces and foups, for which purpofe it may be preferved dried for many months or even years. The people employed in gathering Morels in Germany, having...
Page 95 - FoUND in a wine cellar in Little St. Helens, London, creeping among faw-duft and bottles in the autumn of 1796, communicated by Mr.

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