1064 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



and that in burnt pieces of the Clavturia digitata 



6f Hypoxylon yre difcovered none of that (Irong 



hartfhorn fcent, peculiar to animal fubftances 



when put in the fire, but a true vegetable 



fmell. 



1 hefe obfervations are not however fufficicnt to 



fuperfede ocular evidence, and therefore we 



•would vvillingly recommend it to the curious, 



to fearch for that animal motion in our Britijh 



' Clavaria^ which Mr. Miiller affirms to have 



been feen in the DaniJIo. 



LYCOPERDON. Gen. fl 12 17. 



Fungus fubrotundus, feminibus farinaceis repletis, 

 * Solida [uhterranea ahJQue radice. 

 tuher 1; LYCOPERDON globofum folidum muricatum, 

 radice deftitutum. Sp. pi. 1653. (Tournefort 

 t. 333. Michel, gen. pag. 221. tah. 102. opt.) 



Truffles. Subterrjneous Puff-balls. Anglis. 



Found in the woods near Miggerney in Glen-lyon^ 

 Penbjhire, by Mr. Menzies, in greatefl perfec- 

 tion in autumn and winter. 



It is a fubterrancous Fungus, growing generally 

 in clufters three or four inches under ground, 

 without any vifible root. The figure of it is 

 nearly fphasrical, the fize that of a potatoc; 

 the exterior coat at firft white, afterwards 

 5 black. 



