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Helvella cartilagenia Hist. 101.

Gristly Helvella.

This Helvella grows on such old
walls or rocks on our Hills, as Time
has covered with vegetable mould, and
planted with the Polytrichum commune
in its dwarf state.  Schaeffer on his
148. Plate figures a plant which in
some particulars resembles mine &
may probably be the same species.
But he has given a black ciliation on
the margin which I never could find
in my plant.
        