here ſo ſhallow, that we could not come cloſe to the land with our boat, ſo that we were obliged to wade part of the way in the water.
I followed the coaſt in a northerly direction, ſometimes penetrating a ſhort way into the foreſts. As it was low-tide, I walked with great facility along the ſhore, where I obſerved ſeveral ſmall holes, in the form of a tunnel, made in the ſand, each of which contained a ſmall crab at the bottom. Upon drawing out the animal, it ſoon crawled back into its hiding place, which, as I judge from its analogy with that of the formica leo in our country, ſerves it likewiſe as a trap to catch its prey.
I was agreeably ſurpriſed by the ſingular form of a new ſpecies of fungus, which grew amongſt the moſſes with which the ground was covered. I named it aſeroë, on account of the diſpoſition of its radii.
Its roots are ſmall filaments attached to a fungous tubercle, which ſupports a globular volva, of a whitiſh colour and gelatinous conſiſtence, marked both within and without with ſeven ſtriæ.
From the centre of this volva proceeds a ſtipes of a reddiſh colour, and an almoſt cylindrical form, hollow throughout, and open at its ſuperior extremity, which forms a ſort of cup, of a fine
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