1060 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



If this fuppofition be true, the roots infiniiatc 

 themfelves between the wood and bark of dc- 

 cay'd trees, frequently to the length and width 

 of two or three feet, and are fiat, a quarter of 

 an inch wide, branched in a reticulated fafhion, 

 of a woody fubftance, externally of a dark 

 fufcous, or blackilh color, internally white. 



The plant to outward view is commonly about 

 ■ • / , one or two inches high, of a tough woody 

 fubftance, and black color, all but the fum- 

 mits, which are white. 



The bafe of the plant is covered with black 

 woolly down ; a little higher it grows dilated, 

 comprefs'd, bifid, and longitudinally ftreak'd ; 

 and at the top is palmated into flat, acute, 

 white, or a(h-color'd horns. 



When in fr unification, the inferior black part of 

 the plant is covered with hollow fpherules, 

 perforated at the fummir, and full of a black 

 powder, at the fame time that the horns or ex- 

 treme fegments difcharge a white powder. 



coralloides C. ramis ccnfertis ramofilTimis incequalibus. Sp. 

 7' pi. 1652. Cluf. hiji. p. 274. gen. \^. fpec. i. 



Ger. emac. iS'J9' ^^^' in parte fuperiore ad dex- 

 tram. Sterb. fung. tab. ii. Jig- A- B. C. D. 

 Tournf. inft. tab. 332 B. Vaill. Paris, t. 8./. 4. 

 Barrelier. ic. 1262 et 1266. Batarra. tab. 1. 



A.B, 



