98 AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSSES,
CXVII. HELVELLA ftipitata, Jlipite cylindrico, piled hemifphcerico
agartciformia.
albido.
AGARIC-SHAPED HELVELLA.
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* j p H E whole plant is white. The item filiform, half an inch
in length. The pileus hemifpherical, " and about the
diameter of a rape feed. They often grow-in clufters; fometimes
fingle. The plant is reprefented of its natural fize at a.
when magnified it appeared as at b.
Grows about the roots of trees, und?r the hypnums and
other moires, in the moift and ihady parts of "woods about
Halifax.
CXVIII.
•urea. HELVELLA Jlipitata, Jlipite brevi, pileo umbellifero aurio.
- G O L D E N HELVELL a|J.
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^TPHE ftem is ihort, largeft above, tapering, towards the bafe,
where it adheres to fmall rotten flicks, &c. by a narrow
claw, without any vifible fibres. ,
The pileus is cuihion-ihaped on the upper fide, thin at the
margin, when full grown a quarter of an inch in diameter, of
a golden colour above, paler underneath. The fubftance
brittle, watery, and femi-pellucid.
Grpws on flicks, ftalks of plants, &c. in moift and watery
places in woods. I find no figure or defcription which well
agrees with either of thefe plants.