I56 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



foon as the water had retired, it regained its 

 habitual abode. It appeared to me, that thefe 

 holes^ of which thofc of our lion-ants will give a 

 iuft idea, lcrved them alio as a fnarc to entrap 

 their prey. 



I was agreeably furprifed with the lingular 

 form ot a new genus of mnlhroom, which grew 

 from the middle of the molles with which the 

 ground was covered. The difpofition of its rays 

 made me name it afi 



Its root confifts of fmall filaments attached to 

 a fungous tubercle, on which reus a volva, glo- 

 bular, whitifli, and gelatinous, marked with 

 fcveny?;v>, without and within. 



From the middle of this volva iffues a 

 reddifh peduncle (ftipes), nearly cylindrical, hol- 

 low throughoL'i its whole length, and open at 

 its upper .extremity, which is expanded, of a 

 beautiful red colour, and divided into fix bifur- 

 cated rays, yellowifh at their extremity. 



This nmlhroom is fmooth in every part. 



This new genus ought to be claffed next to the 

 fhillus genus of Linnaeus 



lanatkn of the Figures of Plate XII. 

 1 The mufhroom fecn of its natural 



The volva cleft in two, in order to 







Fig. 



