Fis. 3. 



"a 



TRICHIA. 



This Trichia-like parasite grew from a decaying bulb in the 

 parlour of Richard Cotton, Esq. in Duke Street, St. James's 

 Square. Perhaps its construction might warrant its being made 

 into a new genus. The top is a nearly crustaceous, orbicular, 

 dark grey envelopement, open at the under side round the 

 stipes ; it is lined with a softer substance inside opposite to a 

 ball attached to the simple dark stipes, and to which are 

 attached hairs in clusters, with a little swelling to cacli, 

 which seem to hold the seeds in the form of a black powder. 

 The heads are sometimes upright, and sometimes nodding. 



I think it is figured by some old Author, but I cannot 

 recollect where. 



