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S P H Æ R IA ROSELLA.
Rose-coloured Sphæria.
C l a s s a n d O k d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn N a t . O e d . HYPOXYLA,
De Cand. Grev.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Receptaculum 0. Sphoeruloe corneoe, liberoe, sessiles aut subimmersoe, sparsæ vel
congestæ, ore interdum ehngato, aliquando nullo; intùs massa gelatinosa sporulifera
instructoe.
Receptacle 0. Spherules corneous, free, sessile or slightly immersed, scattered
or crowded, the mouth sometimes elongated, at others wanting.
Interior filled with a gelatinous sporuliferous mass.
s p e c i f i c c h a r a c t e r .
Sphær ia rosella ; gregaria, rosea ; sphærulis ghboso-ovatis, subacutis vel pa-
pillatis, tomento pallidhri in
S. gregarious, rose-coloured ; spherules ovato-globose, subacute or papillose,
placed on a paler coloured web.
Sphær ia rosella, Albert, et Schwdn. p. 35. t. 7. f. 3.—Fries, V. A. H. 1817.
Nees Syst. p. 85. t. 44. f. 362. ^— Schwein. Syn. Fung. Carol. No. 171.__
Fries, Syst. Mycol. 2. p. 441.
H ab. Woods and damp places, growing on rotten wood, dead leaves, &c.
rare. Appin, Captain Carmichael. Woods about Edinburgh. Autumn.
Spreading over various substances for an inch or more in breadth. Spherules
rose-red, numerous, minute, ovato-globose, the apex papilliform ;
gelatinous, at length corneous ; they are seated on a stratum of laxly interwoven
filaments of a pale pink colour, white towards the circumference.
F ries describes a variety in which the web and the spherules
are of th e same uniform rose-red colour.
An elegant and rare species, first described and figured by
A l b e r t i n i and S c h w e i n i z in their Conspectus Fungorum.
I t is nearly allied to Cryptosphceria aurantia, already represented
in this -vv'ork. Few species of Sphæria are so indifferent
respecting the substances on which they grow, as those of the division
to which the present one belongs, viz. the Sphoeriæ B y s-
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