-CRYPTOGAMIA! FUNGI: Mérulius. (9° 
Bolt. 177-Bull. 498, 1—Fl. dan. 1077. 1. 
» > Root longish, slender; fibrous, Plant { to 1 inch overs flat, 
thin, flexible, tough, red brown above;:yellow brown beneath ; 
veins branched and-anastomosing. . Lobes broad, deep, Bout. 
Helvella membranacea, of Mr. Dicksony who refers to Acta 
danica,.. 1..p.'250,.f. 15,a work not within my reach, but in;his 
second fasciculus. he. cités -Bulliard. pls 28%, which has a thick 
lateral stem, sufficiently long.in proportion:to the size of the 
plant, but Mr. Dickson has described his plantas being without 
a stem ;. I should therefore suppose that his and Mr. Bolton’s 
plant cited above are the same, and that Mr. Bulliard’s, pl. 282, 
is.a different species. peatacsiimeiét al) ao bog tase At} 
fi een retiruga. Bulliard. Helvella membranacea. Bolt. 
icks. 7 , 
Mossy soil ; thatched houses ;_ bogs. 
M. sitting, concave, shaggy, scolloped and waved at the 
edge: veins on the under side branched. 
«Scheff. 325—~Bolt.173-Batsch. 121. me: 
Upper surface flocky or shaggy, dark clove colour, marked 
with concentric lines of a darker shade; border curled and scol- 
loped, the edge fringed. Under side paler, veins branched ; 
seems dusted over with a brown ‘bloom, or down. Substance, 
softy tough, soon turning black and perishing; 1 to 1 + inch 
over. Bort. * a 
151 
earyophyl 
lee’us. 
* Helvella caryophyllea. Dicks. Elvela caryophyllea. Schaef. : 
Ag. tristis, Batsch. Helvella caryophyllea. Bolt. 
On the ground, in pine plantations near Bungay, Suffolk. 
Mr. Woopwarp, © ees oa ee a 
ces“ AGRRICUS. >= 
Ess. Cuar. Prreus with gills underneath. 
~Gitts differing in substance from the rest 
of the plant; composed of two lamina, 
Seeps in the gills, 
oe 8 Sreat central. 
~ IsSOLID and DECURRENT. ~ 
220 doi yedix 17> Gambswhiteds. 
AG. Gills white, 4 in a set? pileus brownish white, con- 
vex, concave when old: stem white. 
rent, white... 
Grits de 
ramea‘lis. 
