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another. Their furfacc is of a pale green gloffy 

 colour, curioufly teflelated with rhomboidal and 

 hexagonal tubercles, each having a white veficlc, 

 or wart, in the centre, with a pundure on its 

 head, much more diftind and vifible than in 

 the firft fpecies. The under fide is green, fur- 

 irifhed with numerous downy radicles. 

 The male irudlification arifes fro.m the nerve out 

 of the difc of the leaf, having a fufcous cavity 

 or ^'ai^tjia at the bafe. 1 he pedicle is fmooth, 

 white, fucculent, pellucid, and, when full grown 

 three inches high. The pileus, or head, is co- 

 nical, refembling one of .^he leaft agarics. It 

 is at firft of a pale green, afterwards yellow, and 

 hftly, brown, containing generally five, but 

 fometimes fix or eight cells, open at the bafe, 

 in each of which cells is a pendulous, conicaly 

 fioret, having an anlheray which burfts with five' 

 fegments at the rim, and cafts out a dark, fuf- 

 cous powder, according to Alicheli, Haller^ and 

 others ; but DilUnius fays, he never could dif- 

 cover any thing more in the cells than an oval, 

 comprefs'd grain, obfcured at one end with a footy 

 powder. He could difcern no pendulous floret, 

 or fegments to the cmthera. The Inletis appears 

 firft in the Autumn, and continues felTile all the 

 Winter, but begins to be elevated on a pedicle 

 in March or April, 

 The female fruflifications appear upon the difc di 

 dlftindl plants of the fame fpecies, in the form 

 of fcfTilc hcmifphicrical fpongy warts, flat at 



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