OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



military-road, a quarter of a mile weft from Carra*w t in the 

 fpring, plentifully, among other mo/Tes. 



38. Small, feffile, white, proliferous Cttp-MuJJjrome (a). About the 

 decayed roots of fir-trees, but not common. I obferved it on 

 thofe by the road in the rectory-den at Simonburn, in the fpring, 

 fparingly. It rifes in the form of a fmall globule, and after 

 fome time opens, and fliews a large cup, a quarter of an inch 

 in diameter, of a gloffy white. Other globules rife on the fides 

 and in the center of the cup, which give it the appearance of a 

 cup and balls in miniature. Thefe by degrees open, and aTume 

 the form of cups. It is a beautiful fpecies. Two or three com- 

 monly grow together, at fmall diftances. 



39. Tufted, yellow, clavated, coralline Mujbrome (b). In the open- 

 ings of thick woods, in autumn, fparingly. I met with it in 

 one of the walks in the vicarage- wood at Hartburn. It is flattifh 

 and fucculent, ilender at the bottom, tumid in the middle, gra- 

 dually tapering to an obtufe point, two inches long ; growing in 

 tufts, twenty or thirty, or more together, of a beautiful faffron- 

 yellow. 



40. Branched, tufted, yello-w, clavated, Coralline Mufhrome (cj. In 

 damp woods. At the weft end of the rectory-wood at Simonburn y 



not 



(a) Cyathoides, quod Fungus femnifer, minor, fere hemifphxricus. Raj. Syn. ii. 

 App. p. 333. & ed. iii. p. 20. n. 21. t. i. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 222. n. 5. 



(b) Clavaria cefpitofa, media, lutea. Michel. Gen. PI. p. 209. t. 87. f. II. Clavaria 

 cefpitofa mollior apice obtufo. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 60. cutn bona Icone. Digitellus 

 clavatus croceus. Martyn, Tourn. i. p. 228. n. i. 



(c) Efculentorum fungorum genus xix. Species i. Cluf. Hift. rar. Planet, p. cclxxiv. 

 Fungi digitelli lutei. frag, p. 940. Fungus ramofus flavus. /. B, iii. p. 837. Raj. Hift. i. 



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