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_\: Moist woods and-bogs: [Thorpe neat Norwich. Dri Ji E. 
Smitu.] q sifot fis 3! Aste oe49 
Cx. Unbranched: head oval, supported on astem. 
’This' sin wrt is always fixed toa Lycoperdon. It 
is very like iF Cl. ophioglossoides, but differs in being softer in 
its substance, and sooner decaying... The head is never com- 
pressed, as in that species; and is: always coated with minute 
papillz, When old-it is hollow at: the tops Wi.up. p. 405 ; 
who gives its specific character thus: ; 
CL. parasitica, clavatay nigra, simplicissima, stipite tereti, 
corpore oblongo tereti, obtuso papilloso—but I have preferred 
that of Mr. Woodward as being shorter, but yet sufficient,. He 
ranks it as a Splieria, with the following characters" ~~ 
SPH. parasitica simplex, stipitata, capitulo ovali. 
I am indebted for the knowledge of this:plant, to Mr. Wood- 
ward, and also for the following observations :—Willdenow 
_ calls the Lycoperdon on which this grows, L. scabrum, and. says 
it differs from the Tuber cibarium} which it certainly does, but 
I do not see that it differs in any respect from our T. cervi- 
“num. ‘This plant 'is-never brariched,’ though frequently growing _ 
-in ‘dlusters,. in .one»instance. ‘as many. as seven together. Root 
consisting of many long, wiry, ..brown fibres, with which it en- 
twines and covers the surface of the Tuber. but never penetrates 
its substarice. Szem slender, about 1inch long. Head oval, 
about 4 inch high, covered with minute Sphzriz. It differs 
from Cl. digitata, in size area the stem, and in being 
unbranched ; and from Cl. cupressiformis in having a longer 
stem, an oval head, and thespherules much more minute ; and 
from both in its peculiar habit, and the long fibres which form 
‘the root: Found on a heath near Norwich some years since, 
and sent me by Mr. Pitchford. Mr. Woopwarn. 
(2) Stem without a head; mostly undivided. 
_ Sept. Oct. 
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parasit'ica, 
Cx. Undivided, solid, not granulated. hercula ‘nea, 
Var. 1. Club-shaped, ‘depressed at the top, solid, surface 
uneven, dirty yellow or orange. 
Bull, 244-Schefr. 160-Schmidel 4.1-Buxb. bal. row 2. 1 
p> 132-Batsch. 46-Mich. 87. 1. 2. 3-Gleds 1. Cla. 
- waria f. 4. ie ; 
A CL. pistillaris, B Fi. suec. n. 1266. 2 Huns. 
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» This is the largest of the Gemus; it is firm, undivided, — 
Sreatly thickening upwards, solid, smooth, about 3 inches high, 
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