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MORCHEIiLA DRLICIOSA. 
Australian habitat. There were but half-a-dozen individual 
fungi in the cluster noticed, nor could further examples be dis- 
covered. The largest specimen examined was about 2m high 
with a width of pileus or head of IJin. The latter is irregularly 
conical and reticulate on the outer surface, being furnished with 
different sized cells, which are generally hexagonal in outline. 
Those at the summit are small or obsolete, whilst towards the 
base of the pileus they enlarge. They are from two to three 
lines broad, by from three to five or six lines long (high), and 
from two to three lines deep. The colour of the pileus is dark- 
slate-grey inside the cells, with the projecting veins of the latter 
of a much lighter hue, and these in some individuals are also 
slightly granulated, as apparently in process of ejecting the 
spores. The pileus thus taken as a whole very much resembles 
some old honeycomb or wasp nest. The stalk, or that which is 
designated as such, does not separate from the pileus as in 
Agarics, but is fused with it so as to form one piece. It is white, 
about Im. bug, measuring from the base of the pileus to the 
gijund eylindrical hollow or sulcate, cottony inside, and enlarges 
afol fcelMb 1 
.rdi..ry rfible (Ag.ri.„ «' * 
do.d':snr;L"rr jrr “f • 
resembles our species but tbA fi ’ evidently mucl) 
E«„p„„ xir 
Th. ™ra Morohdla i, derivedZn 
fungus— worc/i^^-Enghsh “ m n ,, G-erman name for the 
grow more commonly than rIc ^ Europe it is said to 
run ; hence atVne Sme t^^^^^^ a fira 
stopped from burning the forest p ^®™an peasants had to ha 
mcreasing the supply. ’ ^ P^^^^ure they resorted to for 
