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MUCOR fiipitatus fugex, fttpite fupern ventricofo pellucido rorrido CLXX. 

 capitulo [ubrotundo -elaftico nigro, Dick/on, Crypt, faf. 1, p. 25, urceo i atus 

 t. 3, fig. 1. Hydrogera cryfiallina. Wiggers Fl. Holfat. p. 100. 

 Relhan, Flor. Append. 35, No. 1062. 



PITCHER-SHAPED 



MUCOR. 



TAB. CXXXIII. 



F I G. 



THIS is about two lines in height ; the ftalk or afcending part is 

 of a dufky yellowifh hue, and contracted near the bale, but 

 towards the top is fwelled, fo as to give the ftem a lengthened urn 

 fhape. This upper part is pellucid, and feems as if filled with dew. 

 The head is globular, fometimes a little deprefied, fometimes com- 

 prefied •, it is of a dark finning olive colour, furrounded with a 

 membrane at firft, but which breaks, and the head afterwards is of a 

 greenifh hue, and appears downy. The feeds adhere to elaftic fila- 

 ments, as at a. The natural fize of the plant is feen at b. The head 

 uncovered at d. covered at c. A downright fection at e. The plant 

 more highly magnified at/. 



Found in horfes or cows' dung, early in the morning. This figure 

 and defcription was taken in October, 1784. 



MUCOR feffdis fubalbidis rnagnis, pulvere fufcis. Lycogala grifeum CLXXL 

 majus. Mich. Gen. t. 95, fig. 1. Scbaf. Fung. t. 195. lycogalus. 



G E L L Y 



TAB. CXXXIII. 



MUCOR. 



F I G. II. 



THE fubftance of the plant, while immature, is like a ftiff gelly 5 

 it is of a brown colour, and enclofed in a brown foft bag or 

 cover. It adheres to decaying wood, by a central umbilicus, but has 

 no apparent root. As the plant advances in growth it becomes more 

 convex, approaching to a globular figure, but comprtfied at the bafe ; 

 the cover becomes more firm and dry, and changes to a fair white, is 

 fmooth to the eye, but has a gentle afperity to the touch. When full 

 grown it breaks, in various irregular gafhes, and difcharges brown 

 globular feeds adhering to elaftic filaments, a. the young plant ; b. the 

 perfect one •, c. is a lpecimen cut perpendicularly •, d. the feeds. 



This grew in a brew-houfe in Halifax, on an old beam, over the 

 pan where the worts are boild, April 21, 1788. 



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