Part 43

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.

Footnote 74:

See note KK, appendix.

Footnote 75:

The ash, generally speaking, will arrive at a very serviceable age, in sixty years, producing at a low rate twenty-eight feet of timber, which, at 2s. 3d. the foot, its present value, would produce a sum equivalent to 3l. 3s., a silent unheeded profit of above a shilling a year. A hundred such might have been felled annually from many farms had they not been topped, which, in consequence of this practice have produced nothing.

Footnote 76:

See note LL, appendix.

Footnote 77:

“Mr. Caldcleugh sent home two tubers, which being well manured, even the first season produced numerous potatoes, and an abundance of leaves.” Hort. Transactions, Vol. V. p. 249. See Humboldt’s interesting discussion on this plant, which it appears was unknown in Mexico, in Political Essay on New Spain, book IV. chapter IX.

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