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H I S T O R Y OF" FUNGUSSES,
G R O W I i ; G about HALIFAX.
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H E L V E L L A.
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HELVELLA fiifitata, filed deflexo adnata lobato deformi. Sp. CXIV.
PI. 1649. Schaf. Fung. t. 159, 160, 161, 162, 282, 320, mitra.
322. Ball. Hiß. 2246. Mich. Gen. f . 204, t. 86, fig. 7,
8, 9. Ray Syii. 8. Relhan Fior. 436* No. 959.
M I T R E D H E L V E L L A .
T ABI.;, XCV.
r n p H E root confiits of a few fibres, adhering to the bafe of 1' BBS^^HHBHI N • ..
The item is four or five inches high, of a white colour,
h o l l o w within, and of an- irregular fürface; being much
twilled', and fünk in furrows between fwelling ridges ; frequently
gaihed or-rent in feyeral places,,lìÌfot. " f* parti"c ularly nearn the t
The pileus or hat, when thè plant is in its common itate,
is mitre-ihaped, as inflate 95—of a duiky kind of pale olive
colour, the thicknefs' of glove leather, of a brittle fubftance,
and feels like, velvet between the" fingers :—It is, however,
lubject to vary greatly in ihape and colour, as may be feen in
SCHJEFFER'S Hiftory of Fungiffis, in the .plates above cited;
where he figures many elegant varieties,,'Which I have not
obferved to grow in this neighbourhood.
Grows in the ihady parts of moift woods, and is a rare
plant about Halifax—except in the year 1777, when it
abounded in many woods, hedges, &c. as is mentioned m the
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