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About five or six inches high; stems four or five from the same root, nearly 
half an inch in diameter. Pileus three inches over, thin, tough, split into 
segments, waved and curled at the edge. The whole plant tough, elastic, 
leathery, of a dead huffy brown or cinnamon colour. Bolt. 
Mr. Bulliard has figured what he has called Agaricus cornucopioides , see pi. 
208. different from the above, though of a dead brown colour, but the 
gills are branched, and the hollow of the pileus extends down to the 
root, so that there is properly no stem, or rather, no pileus, the expansion 
of the hollow stem at its top supplying the place of a pileus, and bearing 
the gill-like veins on its outer side. This plant seems decidedly a Meru- 
lius. 
(Twisted-stemmed Cornucopia Merulius. E.) Ag. cornucopioides. Bolt, 
(and Purt. E.) Shady woods about Halifax, not plentiful. In a little 
wood near Brakenbed farm, in Ovenden. Sept. 3d. 1787. 
(2) With a Stem , and Veins underneath. 
M . undulatus. See Peziza undulata. 
M. purpu'reus. Stem funnel-shaped, hollow, expanding at the top 
like a hollow pileus: gill-like veins branched, purple. 
FI. Dan. 384 —Schaffi 165. 166 —Bolt . 103 — Bull. 150 — (Abbot. FI. Bed. 
p. 324 — Sowerby 74. E.) — Vaill. xiii. 2. 3. 
Plant hollow, gradually enlarging upwards, greatly expanding at the top ; 
border scolloped, turned back, two or three inches high, one and a half 
diameter at the top. Inner surface dark dirty brown, smooth like vellum. 
Outer surface decorated with rising branchy veins, covered with a bloomy 
down or powder. Substance tough and elastic. Bolt. (The seed is 
evidently emitted from the under side of the pileus, which circumstance, 
according to scientific arrangement, would place it among the Helvellse, 
or, with more propriety, among the Merulii, as it is generally veined 
underneath: and also tough and leathery, whereas Helvellae are tender 
and crumbling. Purt. E.) 
Purplish Cornucopia Merulius. E.) Peziza cornucopioides. Bolton. 
Bulliard. Oeder. (Sowerby. Purt. E.) Elvella cornucopia and punctata. 
Schaeffer. Ray Syn. p. 20. n. 17. Grows single or in clusters, in dry 
woods. 
M. infundibulifor'mis. (Bolt.) Stem funnel-shaped, hollow, ex¬ 
panding at the top like a hollow pileus: gill-like veins branched, 
silvery grey. 
Bolt. 34 — Bull. 208. 465. 2. differ but little—(Not Bull. 473. nor Battar 23. c . 
-—Vaill. xi. 10. is M. Cantharellus.) 
Stem about two inches from the root to the gills, often flatted, or fluted ; 
hollow quite from the root, and running insensibly into the pileus, as the 
tube of a Convolvulus does into its border. Gills branched like nerves, 
of the same substance with the plant. The whole plant is tough, elastic, 
of a greyish mouse-colour. Bolt. 
(Grey Funnel-shaped Merulius. E.) Ag. hffundibulfformis. Bolt. Ag. 
cornucopioides. Bulliard. In Lee-bank-Shroggs near Halifax, and several 
other places. Bolt. October, 1786. 
M. mijscPgenus. Stem lateral, thick, short; pileus semi-circular, pale 
brown; gills branched. 
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