GROWING about HALIFAX. 



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PEZIZA infundibuliformis, difco patent e Jinuato punctata. Sp. CXXV. 

 PI. 1650. Eh'ella cornucopia?. Scbcef. Fung. t. 165', cornunpeUes. 

 166. Vaill- Paris, t. 13, fig. 2, 3. Var.punblata. Relhan 

 Flor. 465, No. 965. Hudfon Angl. 634, 5. Lightfoot 

 Scot. 1050, 5. 



CORNUCOPIA PEZIZA. 



TAB. CIII. 



npHE root is hard, tough, and furnifhed with a great num- 

 A ber of black, fhort, capillary fibres. 



The tubular part is narrow at the bafe, and expands 

 gradually upwards. The margin is very elegantly lobed and 

 finuated; fometimes galhed and plaited, and fometimes nearly 

 plain. 



The outfide of the plant is decorated with rifing, 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 lingle, but 

 more frequently in clufters or bundles, five or fix from the 

 fame root; in this lait ftate, the plants commonly prefs upon 

 one another, and thereby become difiorted, and their fhape 

 disfigured. 



Grows in the fhady parts of woods, where the foil is dry, 

 in the Sbroggs, North-Dean, &c. about Halifax. 



There is a variety, in which the furface of the limb is 

 covered with a kind of fmall grains, as figured by Vaillant, 

 on the plate above cited; and by Schaeffer, /• 166. 



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