G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX.
CLAVARIA fubramofa ereSla alba.
E L E G A N T CLAVARIA.
T A B. • >CXV.
/ - p H I S plant, from an hard, brown, fibrous root, rifes per-
•*• pendicularly to the.height of four or five inches. Sometimes
it is fimple and undivided, the furface wrinkled tranfverily,
and funk in, longitudinal furrows, with alternate: ridges;
the whole of an elegant club-fhape, as in the two middle
figures. Sometimes it is branched in a beautiful manner, in
.imitation of an hand, a flower, the horn of a rein deer, &c.
Sec. all the divifions terminating obtufely.
In both ftates, while freih and. growing, it is of a pure
filvery white; and, when viewed between the eye' and the
-light,Books like, in fubftance ani l texture, the fineft virgin
wax. Iri decay it changes to a pale brown colour, withers,
and foon difappears.
Grows in plenty, under the fir trees about Fixby-IIall, in
Septemberj, I have not found it elfewhere.
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elegant.
