CRYx^TOGAMIA FUNGI. 1059 



blunt, Icnobbed fegments, often as thick as a 

 man's finger, but mod" iifually of the fize and 

 figure of a Spadix or catkin cf Long Pepper. 



The outer coat of it is black and granulated 

 being compos'd cf 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. hijl. n. 2193. and Sco- 

 ^i?//, under another, denominated Valfa.Scop. 

 Flor. Cartiiol. n. 14 14. 



hypoxytonS. C. ramofo-cornuta comprefla. Sp. pi. 16^1. Mi' 



chel. gen. tab. g^. Jig. C. C. C. Ord. i. hen. et 



ejus radices^ feciindum Hallcruni et alios. Michel. 



' ' gen. tab. 66. f. 3. Plant e nouvelle Dodart. 



Journal des Sav an s ann. 1675. Anc. Mem. 1". 



X. p. S5T- t- A-fg- 3O 

 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 comprejfus, varie divari- 



catiis et iraplexus inter lignum H corticem. R.Syn. 



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



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



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

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