120 AN HISTORY OF FUNGUS'S E S,
CXLIX. SPH/ERIA fimplex aggregata coc.cinea minima. Dickfon Crypt, fas. i,
v>ori. p. 22. Wrigel, p. 45, t, i, fig. 11, RelhUnFlor. Append. alt. p. 31,
No. 1105.
M u l b e r r y spiite r i a.
T A B. \CXX. F jYJ.', * r.
I T adheres to the decaying bark of fallen elm trees, by a narrow bafe
or claw, of an hard- firm fubftance, and of a red "colour. The
feparate fphterula are naked, or without common, c o v e r t h e y are not
properly globular, but rather turban-ihaped, adhering by a narrow
bafe, as at f . A fingle fpharulte, laid open in two direftions and magnified,
is feen at d. e. A clufter,,:cut perpendicularly through the centre
and a little magnified, appeared as at c.—a. B. is the natural fize. At
its firft appearance it is of a golden or orange colour; when full grown,
a deephloody fcarlet; turning quite black in decay.
Found in great plenty about Halifax, in January and February.
CL, SPHJERIA nuda fpharuhe turbinata extus glauca-—intus alba. Lichen
glauca ' ceruleo—ngiricans: Relhan Fior. p. 424, No. 847.
S E A r'G R E E N SPH^RIA.
T A B . CXX. F I G. IIV
t a 'SHIS Sphseria, like the laft,- is naked, and without common cover.
X The fpharulce are turban-ihaped, as at b. they are of a glaucus
colour on the outfide, and white within ; cut open and magnified, they
appeared as at d. e.f. while young they are full of a white jelly, like
the reft of the genus ; when old the turbinated top ihrinks down, turns
black, and becomes hollow, as at c. The fphterula, in this ftate, have
been accepted for the Shields, by thofe who chufe to call the plant a
Lichen..
Grows on Braham-Moor, near Leeds. The Lichen ccerulea nigricans,
of LIGHTFOOT, he fays, is befet with numerous black convex tubercles or
warts; this plant I have feen, and believe it to be a variety of the L. atro
albus, of the fame author. . LIGHTFOOT faw not the fructification of atro
a lb us; I have feen them, and found them to be perfect Shields, of a reddifh
colour.