GROWING about HALIFAX. 



IOI 



HELVELLA acaulis, pileo pulvineo coccineo glabro. 

 GRISTLY HELVELLA. 



TAB. CI. 



FIG. 1. 



THIS Helvetia is of a firm, griftly, femi-pellucid fubftance, 

 convex on the upper fide, where it is fmooth and rather 

 llippery to the touch. The margin is acute and fmooth, being 

 quite deftitute of hairs. The colour is an high orange or 

 fcarlet. The perpendicular fection at a. fhews the thicknefs 

 of the plant. 



Grows upon old walls and rocks amongft mofs, particularly 

 the Polytrichum minus. Dell. mufc. t. 54, Jig. 2. This is a plant 

 altogether diftinct from the Peziza fcutellata of Linnaeus, 

 Ray, &c. &x. 



CXXI. 



cartilagnia. 



HELVELLA (Purpurea) fejjilis, pileo vario hemifpherico, in- CXXII. 

 fundibu'iformi jloriformi, lobato, plicato, crijpo purpureo. farcoides. 

 Schaf. Fung. ^. 333. Dick/on, faf. 1.2.1. Peziza gelatinofo, 

 coccinea cyphis conicis, Jimplicibus tt gregariis. Hall. 

 Hiji. 2221. 



PURPLE 



HELVELLA. 



TAB. CJ. 



F I G. II. 



x ; 



V HIS is of a femi-pellucid fubftance when frefti, and, on 

 being prefled between the fingers, feels like a itirF elaftic 

 welly. Its figure is extremely various, it being, in its feveral 

 ilages, formed like a club, a cone, a turban, an agaric, a 

 flower, a ruffle, an inteftine, and many other fhapes, peculiar 

 to itfelf. Its firft appearance is very often club-fhaped, as at a. 

 The colour, while the plant is frelh, is conftantly a dull 

 reddifh purple, turning black in. decay. 



Grows between the bark and the wood, on the flumps 

 of oak trees, the firft winter after their fall, and is pretty 

 common about Halifax. 



