G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 103
PEZIZA infundibuliformis, difco palenteJinuato punSiato. Sp.
Pi. 1650. Ehella cornucopia. Schcef. Fung. t. 165,
166. Vaill- Paris, i. 13, Jig. 2, 3. Var.punSlata. Relhan
Flor. 465., No. 965. Iludfon Angl. 634, 5. Lighfoot
Scot. 1050» 5.
C O R N U C O P I A PEZIZA.
t A B. qrfi.
' " p A E root is hard, tough, and furniihed with a great number
of" black, ihort, capillary fibres .H
The tubular part is narrow at the bafe, and expands
gradually, upwards. The margin is very elegantly lobed and
fmuated; fometimes gaihed and plaited, and fometimes nearly
plain. .
The outiide of the plant is decorated with riiing, branchy
veins, and is covered with a bloomy down or powder. The iniide
is of a dark fordid brown, nearly approaching to black. The
furface fmooth, and like vellum to the touch. The fubftance
tough and elaftic. The plant fometimes grows fingle, but
more frequently in clufters or bundles, five or fix from the
fame root; in this laft ftate, the plants commonly prefs upon
one another, and thereby become diftorted, and their ihape
disfigured.
Grows in the ihady parts of woods, where -the foil is dry,
in the Shroggs, North-Dean, &c. about Halifax.
There is a variety, in whion the furface of the limb is
covered with a kind of fmall grains, as figured by V A I L L A N T ,
on the plate above cited; and by SCHAEFFER, t- i66.
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