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attached to the lower part of the half-rotten stems of mosses;
bnt the finest specimens I have yet seen, were collected by Mr
W. C. T r e v e l y a n on the very summit of one of tbe Highland
mountains, amidst the thick masses of Trichostomum lanuginosum,
with which such localities so frequently abound.
The white variety I have never observed in this country.
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Fig. 1. Sclerotium subterraneum, nat. size, on Trichostomum lanuginosum.
Fig. 2. Plants magnijied. Fig. 8. A plant divided; and. Fig. 4. A thin
slice, both also magnified.
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