530 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. wysimooMS- 



The flesh coloured dctria, with a strong sincll, is a curious mushroom, found some- 

 times iti Jamaica ;" it is of a iax spongy texture when fresh, hollow within, and fui- 

 nisiied with large rhomboidal apertures, disposed in an oblicjue direction iii jwery part. 

 It is of a. rosy colour and rank smell. Brinenc. 



IV. CLAVARIA. 



Gen. chau. ^This genus is one of the lowest order in the scale of vegetation, and in 

 substance is sometimes like a piece of rotten wood, it can no otherwise be char,ac- 

 terised than as an oblong fungus, simple, or branched, with the seeds dispersed . 

 over the whole surface, or collect-d in tubercles opening at the top. One species 

 has been.found in Jamaica by Swartz. 



rUSCA. ERO-VVN. 



Turfy, brown; stem simple, compressed, united at the base, hairy; apeX 

 sometimes forked. 



V. HELVELLA. 



Gkn. char. Inflated, deformeil, or concave, smooth, cTastically ejecting the seeds 

 from the upper surface. Swartz describes foar species as natives of Jamaica. 



1. VERSICOLOR. CHAyOEABLE. 



Stemlcssj^ membranaceous ; florescence two-coloured, below smooth and white; 



2. TEFMELLINA. 



Stemless, coriaceous, undulate, smooth, lead like ; below rough, hairy. 



3. ATRA,TA.. BLACK. 



Stemless, membranaceous, brittle, smooth on both sides, black.. 



4. PALLIDA. PALE. 



Stemless, coriaceous,, brittle, smooth on both sides, brown above,, whitish 

 below. 



VI. HYDNUM. 



Gen. CIL\R. Horizontal, echinated beneath with awl-shaped fibresi Swartz ha* 

 three species of this genus he found in Jamaica. 



1. AC-.iRlGOlDE3. AGaRICUJI-LIKH'. - 



Convex, smooth, pale, ferruginous below. 



2. RESUFI-VATUM. RESUPINATE. 



Plain, imbricated, below scabrous, <above covered withbristly ferruginous. dots; 



3. SERICEUM. SILKY. 



Plain, imbricate, below scabrous, of a woolly tpxture, silky on both sideSy 



ivhitish greeu.- . 



VU. PEZIZAs 



