
          (35)

Helvella sarcoides Hist. 101. f. 2

Purple Helvella

Tab: 35.

This peziza came up in august 1783
in Birks wood. It issued out between
the Bark and the wood on the stumps
of Oak Trees which had been cut down
the preceeding Year. It is of an hard
brittle substance semi pellucid and of
a gristly look. It first appears like small
gelatinose grains the size of a mustard
seed, it next becomes clubshape and
divided in two or three, at last the top
becomes Depressed and spreads out
in a kind of rim which is crumpled
and irregularly Lobed and curled, it
perishes soon after in a Black jelly.

Peziza clavata

        