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 TAB. CXLVIII.

on common black modelling clay, where, to the artist, it is a troublesome intruder, it being generally necessary to work the part again to get rid of it. It is held to the clay by very fine attenuated cobweb-like fibres from the sides, as it were to assist the little knobby root. TAB. CXLIX.

pretty plant was sent with a neat drawing from Hexham in Northumberland, by Francis Scott jun. of that place, who observes, that it is frequent on the root of Erica vulgaris, &c. that it is of a thick hard substance in every stage of growth, growing singly or in groups in upland shady woods, about February and March. The black inside in drying forms cracks, and when magnified we see whitish threads crossing them. TAB. CL. Bolt. 98. With. ed. 3. 340.

on cut stumps of oak, &c. in autumn.