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HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 



GENUS VI. 



HELVELLA. 



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ftifritatce. 



HELVELLA Jlipitata, pilto deflexo adnato lobato defornri. Sp. CXIV. 

 PI. 1649. Scheef. Fung, t. 159, 160, 161, 162, 282, 320, mitra, 

 322. Hall. Hiji. 2246. Mich. Gen. p. 204, t.%6, jig. j, 

 8, 9. Ray Syn. 8. Rel/jan Flor. 436, No. 959. 



MITRED HELVELLA. 



TAB. XCV. 



THE root confifts of a few fibres, adhering to the bafe of 

 the item. 

 The item is four or five inches high, of a white colour, 

 hollow within, and of an irregular lurface; being much 

 twilled, and funk in furrows between fwelling ridges ; fre- 

 quently gafhed or rent in feveral places, particularly near the 

 root. 



The pileus or hat, when the plant is in its common ftate, 

 is mitre-fhaped, as in plate g-, — of a dulky kind of pale olive 

 colour, the thicknefs of glove leather, of a brittle lubitance, 

 and feels like velvet between the fingers : — it is, however, 

 fubject to vary greatly in fhape and colour, as may be feen in 

 Sch.-effer's Hijlory of FungnjJ'es, in the plates above cited ; 

 where he figures many elegant varieties, which I have not 

 oblerved to grow in this neighbourhood. 



Grows in the fhady parts of moifr. woods, and is a rare 

 plant about Halifax, — except in the year 1777, when it 

 abounded in many woods, hedges, &x. as is mentioned in the 

 Introduction. 



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