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blunt, knobbed fegments, often as thick as a 

 man's finger, but moft: ufually of the fize and 

 figure of a Spadix or catkin of Long Pepper. 



The outer coat of it is black and granulated 

 being coinpos'd of numerous perforated hol- 

 low fpherules, full of a charcoal-like powder. 



The internal fubftance is white, of the denfity of 

 foft wood or cork. 



Haller ranks it under a new genus, which he 

 terms Spharia. Hehet. hiji, n. 2193. and Sco- 

 poll, under another, denominated Valfa. Seep. 

 Flor. Carniol. n. 14 14. 



C. ramofo-cornuta comprefTa. Sp. pi. 1652, Mi' 

 chel. gen. tab. 55. fg. C. C. C. Ord. 1. ban. et 

 ejus radices, fecundum Hallerum et alios. Michel. 

 gen. tab. 66. f. 3. Plante nouvelle Dodart. 

 Journal des S avail s ann. 1675. Anc. Mem. T. 



X- ^ 557' i'^'fiS' 3-) 

 Flat horned Clavaria. Anglis. 

 Upon rotten trunks and ftumps of trees frequent. 



XL— III. 

 The fubftance mentioned by Ray, under the 



name of Fungus niger compreffus^ varie divari- 



catus et implexus inter lignum et cor tic em. R. Syn. 



pag. 15. n. 9. and figured by Micheli, tab. 66. 



f. 3. is fuppofed by Haller to be the roots of 



this plant. See Hehet. hiji. n. 2194, 



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