Note 73 — JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST. (continued 6)
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See note JJ, appendix.
Stipes—solid, tapering upwards, rather thick immediately below the pileus, three inches high, thick as a reed, white, and often downy, wrapper at the base.
Many of this species of singular plant I found in October, 1819, springing from a confluent mass of a. caseus. Bolton’s a. pulvinatus is something like our plant; but he describes his under side as perfectly flat, and represents a singularity in the termination of his laminæ, which is not observable in our a. surrectus.