OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



31. Fttid, /now-white, IIorn-Mtifhroms (t). This was for fome 

 yeirs an annual production at the foot of my own garden, at 

 the fouth-eaft end, at Simonburn, and was with difficulty rooted 

 out ; its ftringy fibres, and globular buttons, appearing in dig- 

 ging three feet under the furface. It annually grows in great 

 plenty at the eaft end of a plantation of firs, beach, and Scotch 

 elms, on the other fide of the brook by the road to Hall-Barns 

 from Simonburn, naufeous to the traveller by its foetid fmell. It 

 comes up in April and May, in mild fhowery weather. The 

 root is a round bulb, with bulbous fibres, from which rifes a 

 thick, tall, cylindric pedicle, with a conic head, at firft covered 

 with a reticular film, like a mantle of the fineft wrought-work, 

 mow-white, fplendidly gay, and gradually opens, and (hews re- 

 ticular cells of the fame brightnefs. At firft fight one cannot 

 help admiring its beautiful form, but a near approach fenfibly 

 convinces us of its interior qualities, and that, like fome other 

 objects of outward elegance, it is better feen at a diftance than 

 near. After it is arrived at its maturity, it quickly languishes 

 and melts away into a gelatinous fubftance. 



32. Aflj- coloured, crifp, laciniated Mujhrome, or CURLED ELVELA, 

 with a thick, "wrinkled or finuofe, fjluhus pedicle (u). In damp 



woods. 



-(t) Fungus Phalloidcs. /. B, iii. p. 843. Boletus Phalloicles. Tourn. Inft. p. 562. 

 Raj. Syn. iii. Phallus HOLLANDICUS. Park. Theatr. p. 1322. Fungus Phalloides BA- 

 TAVICUS, pileo laciniato, & veluti crifpo. Raj. Hift. iii. p. 25. Phallus vulgaris, totus 

 albus, volva rotunda, pileolo cellulate, ac fumma parte umbilico pervio, ornato. Michel. 

 Gen, PI. p. 201. t. 83. Vulgo. Stink-born. MARTYN. Tourn. ii. p. 174. 



(u) Firngoides fungiforme crifpum laciniatum & varie complicatum, pediculo craffo 

 ftr'ato rlmofo & fiftulofo. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 204. t. 86. f. 7. egregie. Pierxquefortt 

 Spfdes MiCHEHl ibi recenfttee hue pertinent. Fungus pro capitulo laminas aliquot laciniatas 



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