GROWING about HALIFAX. 99 



* acaulis. 



HELVE LL A acaulis turbinata cochleata. Peziza turbinata ;XIX * 

 cochleata. Sp> PI. 1651. Relhan Flor. 466, No. 970. «*«■ 

 Hudfon Angl. 637. Hall, Hiji. 2245. Schaef. Fung. 

 t. 150, 155, 156, 274, 280, et forteJJ'e 158. Piz///. Paris, 

 t. 11. jig. 8. 



WREATHED HELVELLA. 



TAB. XCIX. 



T 



HE root confifts of a fmall central tuft of fhort 

 fibres. 



The plant is of a femi-tranfparent brittle fubftance, of a 

 yellowifh ftraw colour when it grows on dunghills, as at b. of 

 a brownifh dull purple when in garden-walks upon gravel, &c. 

 on old wood often black, particularly on the infide, as at a. 

 The diameter from half an inch to two inches ; fometimes 

 it grows fingle, fometimes in bundles, in both ftates its fhape 

 is extremely various, The margin is frequently waved, un- 

 dulated, and rolled inward ; fometimes with rents or gafhes, 

 particularly in old plants ; it is hollow on the upper fide, and 

 imitates the fhape of an ear, a faucer, a fhell of a patella, a 

 muiclc, or a cockle, a thimble, a fpoon, or the palm of a 

 child's hand, with many other fhapes, as may be feen in 

 Schjeffer's Hijlory of FungnJJ'es, on the plates above cited. 

 When inaftate of perfecl growth it emits a copious fmoke, on 

 being irritated ; a circumftance not attended to by thofe au- 

 thors who have placed it among the Peziza. Light foot, in his 

 Flora Scotica, page 1052, has taken notice of this property, 

 but did not make a proper ufe of the remark. 



Grows about Halifax in autumn, plentifully. 



