
          (72.)

Helvella fibuliformia. Hist. 176

Button shaped Helvella

This new Helvella was found in the same
place with the pellucida.

They grow from pieces of putrid wood under
Water in vast numbers.  The substance pretty firm
but brittle when close pressed,  it dries to an hard
black Tubercle the size of a large pins head, and is
in some degree revivescent, -- the top of the
Pileus a greenish dead yellow, the underside black
and smooth.
        