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APPENDIX. 



CCXXT. 

 wjent erica. 



HELVELLA. 



HELVELLA acaulis, gelatinofo-coriaee fug&fa refupinata, fufra 



jpongiojo-villofo cineria, infra Levis violucca. Dick/on C ypt. 



Faf. 1 . P. 20. Auricularia tramelloides. Bulliard Texie. 



P. 278. No. 1. Mich. Gen. 124. Agaricus mcfentericus 



violaceo color is. Ray Syn. 22. 



MESENTERIC HELVELLA. 



TAB. CLXXII. 



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HE fpecimens now before me, I have gathered from the 

 fmooth furface of an a(h tree flump, from which the tree 

 had been fawn off the preceding year. 



The plant makes its firft appearance in clufters, or fingle 

 pieces, of a gelatinous half-tranfparant fubftance, and a dull dark 

 violet colour, as at A. B. C. Thefe, in time, open at the top or 

 fide, unfold, and turn in fide out. In the progrefs of growth it 

 increafes, expands, and affumes various ihapes ; it becomes ear- 

 fhaped, cupped, halved, imbricated, lobed, or irregularly gafhed 

 in at the margin. 



The inner furface, now become the outer,- is thickly covered 

 with an hairy fhag, of an ochre colour, or gray, and marked 

 with concentric circles of a darker colour. The outfide ftill re- 

 mains fmooth, and of the fame violet colour; it is a little wrin- 

 kled, but wants the cells, which diilmguiih Bulliard's fpe- 

 cimens. 



