After more than one careful search through the works of
P e r s o o n , F r i e s , and other mycological writers, I cannot find
any description answerable to the present magnificent specimens.
It is now nearly a twelvemonth since I received them
from my friend Captain W a u c h , and made my drawing and
description : tbe subsequent interval has not furnished me any
information calculated to render it less interesting as a well
characterised species. A t first sight it seems to be nearly related
to some of the section Cochleatoe ; but the pileus, when
split, has not the slightest tendency to become twisted or convolute
where the laceration takes place, but, on the contrary, the
substance has a different inclination, and is more or less involute
from the margin.
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Figs. 1, 1. Plants, nat. size,
tubes and sporidia.
Fig. 2. A young plant. Fig. 3. Sporuliferous
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