Drawings of fungi
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Aquatics, under the Pinaster; plantations, Tunkhorn, 16 Oct. 1835. aggregate. Leaves widely campanulate, at length expanded, striated, pale watery brown, margin thin whitish: Gills adnexed, obtuse, acute, the margin undulate, very pale watery brown, nearly white; Stem fistulose, smooth, shining. Capitula half elevated nearly equal. Leaves 1-1½ inches broad, the sinuosity remaining sharp often in the expanded state succeeded by a depression and a shrivelling subtending calyces; watery brown, but whitish when dry, striated especially at the margin, the surface often uneven. Gills with an incurved margin, adnexed but leaning a rarely broad half of the stem. Spores pale acolorless. Stem 1-2 inches, thick, smooth and without thick stone, equal, when moist having an amethystine hue, Tibetan conditions. Odour faint, not agreeable. Husk little. In a very wet state the spores appear almost gelatinous.