96 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



CXV. HELVELLA Jlipitata, acetabulo extus fub afpero, piano aut 

 hifpida. concavo- Scbaf. Fung. t. 167. Hall, Hifl. 2227. ASt. 



Petrop. IV, 282, /. 29, Jig. 3. Hudfon Angl. 636, 9. 



HISPID HALVELLA. 



TAB. XCVII. 



HpHE root is hard and irregular, emitting a few white, 

 •*■ hard, crooked fibres. 



The ftem is hard, folid, fometimes comprefled or fulcated, 

 larger toward the root, and of a dufky kind of pale moufe- 

 colour; the height three or four inches. The colour, in mofr. 

 fpecimens which I examined, was darkeft near the pileus ; 

 near the root, paler. 



The pileus is hemifpherical or falver-fhaped, often a little 

 waved round the margin, where a whitifh ciliation is viiible 

 while the plant is frefh. On the under fide of the pileus, as 

 well as upon the Item, a kind of hairy granulation is per- 

 ceptible, but the upper fide is fmooth. The fize from one to 

 two inches diameter ; the fubftance rather brittle than other- 

 wife, the thicknefs of fine cloth, which it refembles in the 

 touch. It is a pale kind of moufe colour, turning darker in 

 decay. When the plant is at maturity, on being gently {truck, 

 ejedls its feeds in form of a fine fmoke, with a viiible elaftic 

 force. 



It is a rare plant here, I have only feen it in two places. 

 The fpecimens here figured, I gathered in a wood below 

 Highjield, three miles from Halifax, September 27, 1787. 



Hudson places this plant amongft his Peziza, but the 

 property of ejecting the feeds in form of fmoke, which it 

 vifibly potfefles, induces me to place it with the Helvetia, as 

 Sch^ffer has alio done. 



