CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1045 



In woods and on banks, bnc not common. In 

 the woods at Blair in Athol. In the fands by 

 the fea-fide on both fides of the Forth^ and at 

 Carubber bank, among Planting. Sibbald. 

 VIII. 

 It arifes from the earth under a veil or volva^ 

 fhap'd exaflly like a hen's egg, and of the 

 fame color, having a long fibrous radicle at its 

 bafe. 

 This egg-like P^^ha is compofed of two coats or 

 membranes, the fpace between which is full of 

 a thick, vifcid, tranfparent matter, which, when 

 dry, glues the coats together, and fhines like 

 varniih. 

 In the next llage of growth, the Folva fuddenly 

 burfls into feveral lacerated permanent feg- 

 ments, from the centre of which arifes an erect, 

 white, cellular, hollow ftalk, about five or fix 

 inches high, and one thick, of a wax-like fri- 

 able fubftance, and mod foetid cadaverous 

 fmell, conic at each end, the bafe inferted 

 in a white, concave, membranaceous turbi» 

 nated cup, and the fummit capp'd with a hol- 

 low, conical Piieus, an inch long, having a 

 reticulated cellular furface, its bafe detach'd 

 from the ftalk, and its fummit umbilicated, 

 the umbilicus fometimes perforated and lome- 

 times clofed. The under fide of this Piieus 

 X X X 3 is 



