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C la s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn N a t . O r d . HYPOXYLA,
De Cand,
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Perithecia sub'cornea. Asci clavati. Sporidia septata, opaca, pulveris instar
atri expulsa.—Rigidoe, nigrescentes, adnato-superfciales, velo pulverulento
i.—F r i e s .
Perithecia subcorneous. Asci clavate. Sporidia septate, opake, at length
escaping like a black powder.—Rigid, becoming black, adnate and superficial,
with a pulverulent fugacious covering.
s p e c i f i c CnARACTER.
H v p o x y l o n p u n c t a t u m ; stipitatum, turbinatimi, disco truncato, albo, nigo-
punctato, extus nigrescens.
H. stipitate, turbinate, the disk truncate, white with black dots, stipes and
under surface blackish.
S p u æ r i a p u n c t a ta . Sont. Fung. t. 5 4— De. Cand. Ft. Franç. v. 2 . p . 2 8 8 .—
Ejusd. Syn. p . 60.—Fries, Syst. Mycol. v. 2. p . 33 0 .—Wahl. FI. Lapp.
ed . 2 . p . 1001.
S p h æ r i a Poronia, Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 15.—Alb. et Schwein. p. 6.—Nees,
Syst. t. 41. f. 313.—Fries, Sclermn. Suec. Exs. No. 182.—Hook. FI. Scot.
Pt. 2. p. 5.
S p h æ r i a troncata. Bolt- Fung. t. 127. f 2.
P e ro n ia Gleditschia, Willd. FI. Berol. p . 40 0 .
P e z iz a punctata, Linn. Sp. PI. 1 6 5 2 .—FI. Dan. t. 2 8 8 Huds. FI. Angl.
p . 639.—Lightf. FI. Scot. p . 1 0 5 0 .— With. Bot. Arr. v . 4. p . 41 4 .—Bull.
Champ, p . 259- t. 2 5 2 .—Relh. FI. Cant. p . 554.
P e z iz a inferne nigra, superne alba, nigris maculis punctata. Cels. FI. Ups.
p . 35.
E l v e l a turbinata, patula, disco foraminulis pertuso ; basi brevissima, Gled.
Meth. Fung. p. 44.
E l v e l a p e t i o l o b r e v i s s im o , p i l e o lo t u r b i n a t o , d i s c o p u n c t a t o , Linn. Hart.
Cliff, p. 179.
F u n g u s minimus, infundibuliformis, superne nigris punctis notatus, Ray.
Muscus minimus, lignosus, disco punctato, Bocc. Mus. Par. 2. p. 149. t - 107-
H a b . On dung, old dunghils and hot-beds. The whole year. North of
Scotland, W. C. T r e v e l y a n , Esq. L ig h t f o o t gives no particular station,
b u t it is rare in Scotland. In some parts of E ngland it is frequent.
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