Fig. 3.
TRICHIA.
This Trichia-like parasite grew from a decaying bulb in the parlour of Richard Cotton, Esq. in Duke Street, St. James's Square. Perhaps its construction might warrant its being made into a new genus. The top is a nearly crustaceous, orbicular, dark grey envelopement, open at the under side round the stipes ; it is lined with a softer substance inside opposite to a ball attached to the simple dark stipes, and to which are attached hairs in clusters, with a little swelling to each, which seem to hold the seeds in the form of a black powder. The heads are sometimes upright, and sometimes nodding. I think it is figured by some old Author, but I cannot recollect where.
