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YlELV'ElJLAJ'ub/eJ/i/is, coriacco ccfpitofa pileo fubinfundibuliformi CCXXII. 

 fufca radiatim fioccofujiriata, margine incijfo cihato. Dickfon caryophylUa. 

 Crypt. Faf. 1. P. 20. Schcef. Fung. P. 115. No. 246. 



CLOVE HELVELLA. 



TAB. CLXXIIJ. 



'"T^HIS Helvella has a hard root, variable in fhape ; it grows 

 -*■ on various fub fiances. I have gathered it on fmall flicks, 

 on herbs, and grafs in a putrid flate, and alfo on the ground ; it 

 is of a very dark clove colour. The furface flocky or fhaggy, 

 and marked with concentric circles of a darker colour. The 

 margin dented, curled, and waved ; the dents and waves ftronglv 

 and elegantly ciliated, with hairs of unequal length. 



The underfide is of a paler colour, having fwelling veins, 

 ftrongeft near the centre, divided and fubdivided towards the 

 margin, and feem as if dufted over with a brown bloom or down. 



The fubftancc of the plant is foft, flexible, and tough; it foon 

 turns black and perifhes. 



Grows in damp and moifl fituations, particularly under clofe 

 plantations of larch and fir trees. Thefe fpecimens I gathered in 

 a little plantation near Lce-Bridgc, February, 1790. 



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