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C U C U R B IT A R I A c ì n n a b a r i n a .
B e d granulated Cucurbitaria,
C l a s s a n d O e d e b CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn..
De Cand. Grev.
-N a t. Oed. HYPOXYLA,
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Sphoeruloe comeæ, coespitosoe, liberoe, receptáculo insidentes, raro primo inclusæ ;
intus massa gelatinosa sporulifera instructa.
Spherules corneous, clustered, free, fixed on a receptacle, rarely at first included.
Interior filled with a gelatinous sporuliferous mass.
s p e c i f ic c h a r a c t e r .
C u c u r b i t a r i a cinnabarina ; cæspitosa; sphærulis confertis, globosis, granulosis
cinnabarinis, ore vix papilliformi.
C. caespitose; spherules crowded, globose, granulated, orange-red, the orifice
scarcely papillasform.
C u c u r b i t a r i a decolorans, Grev. Fl. Edin. p. 359-
Sphær ia c innabarina, Tode, Fung. Meckl. 2. p. 9. t. 9. f. 68.—Fries, Syst.
Mycol. V . 2. p. 412.
S p h æ r i a decolorans, Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 49.—AU>. et Schwein. p. 24..—
Schwein. Fung. Carol. No. 118.—Moug. et Nestl. St. Exsicc. No. 570..—
Hook. Fl. Scot. 2. p. 6.
S p h æ r ia pezizoidea, a an d y. He Cand. Fl. Franç. v. 6. p. 125.
S p h æ r ia fragiformis. With. Bot. A rr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. i6 5 .— Relhan, Fl. Cantab.
p . 5 71 .
H ab. On dead branches of trees, very common.
Clustered. Whole plant 1-3 lines broad, o f an orange-red colour, becoming
dingy and pale in age. Spherules crowded, globose, tuberculated and
rugose, with an indistinctly prominent orifice, which at length becomes
depressed and slightly collapsed. The spherules are seated upon a red
receptacle, o f a rather soft consistence, and which closely resembles a
Tuber cularia. Sporules oblong, contained in clavato-lanceolate thecse or
hyaline tubes.
I have been induced to figure the present plant, notwithstanding
its exceedingly frequent occurrence, on account [of
the confusion which attaches to it in this country. This
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