98 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 

 CXVII. HELVELLA ftipitata, Jiipite cylindrico, pileo hcmifphcerico 



agarici- Cllbido. 



fermia. 



AGARIC-SHAPED HELVELLA. 



TAB. XCVI1I. FIG. I. 



nr^HE whole plant is white. The ftem filiform, half an inch 

 ■"■ in length. The pileus hemifpherical, and about the 

 diameter of a rape feed. They often grow in clufters ; fome- 

 times fingle. The plant is reprefented of its natural fize at a. 

 when magnified it appeared as at b. 



Grows about the roots of trees, under the hypnums and 

 other molfes, in the moift and fhady parts of woods about 

 Halifax. 



CXVIII. 

 awea. HELVELLA ftipitata, Jiipite brevi, pileo umbellijero aurio. 



GOLDEN HELVELLA. 



TAB. XCVIIJ. F I G. H. 



npHE item is fhort, largeft above, tapering towards the bafe, 

 ■*■ where it adheres to fmall rotten fticks, &c. by a narrow 

 claw, without any vifible fibres. 



The pileus is cufhion-fhaped on the upper fide, thin at the 

 margin, when full grown a quarter of an inch in diameter, of 

 a golden colour above, paler underneath. The fubfiance 

 brittle, watery, and femi-peliucid. 



Grows on flicks, {talks of plants, &c. in moift and watery 

 places in woods. I find no figure or delcription which well 

 agrees with either of thefe plants. 



