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within through a slaty-blue to (at present) a buff 

 edge. Beneath cream-color. There are many minute 

 ones a tenth of an inch in diameter, the shell-like leaf 

 or ear springing from one side. The full-grown are 

 sometimes united into one leaf for eight or nine 

 inches in one level along the log, tier above tier, with 

 a scalloped edge. They are handsomest when two or 

 more are opposed, meeting at their bases, and make 

 a concentric circle. They remind you of shells, also 

 of butterflies. The great variety and regularity of 

 the shading are very interesting. They spring from 

 a slight base, rising by a narrow neck. They grow 

 on stumps and other dead wood on land, even drift- 

 wood left high, just as some marine shells, their rela- 

 tives, grow on driftwood. 



Journal, vi, 196. 



