G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 121
' ! M& I CLI. SPHiERIA Jimplex, ovata fangumea < apice perforata. fanguiMK.
BLOOD-COLOURED SPHiERIA.
B. -ftxxi. -;F I Gv 1.
AT^HIS Sphaeria grows on putrid wood; great numbers grow
A in clofe neighbourhood, but do not in any wife adhere^ to
one another. They are oval or egg-ihaped; the bafe being
broader- than the top. Each has a perforation in the top, and
is about the iize of a poppy feed, as in the lower figure; the
other figures ihew them, as they appeared when magnified,
and cut both perpendicularly and horizontally. The colour, on
the outfide, I s a deep, bright, bloody hue; the furface Aiming
with a glofs, like poliihed coral; the infide and the feeds are
white.——This fpecimen grew on putrid .wood, bcfide,the
fpring of Elm-Cragg-Well, at Bell-Bank, near Bingley, in
June, 1786.
SPHTERIA"Jimplex, globofa virida cortice granulata, granula gjgg
» - m a ^ L i , T ' v .^flt I mmm
G R E E N %S P II M R I A. T 4 & I CXXI. m^F' I I
T ^ H I S ' is about the fize of a white muftard feed when
i growing, of; a freih greeh colour; when dry, a pale
brown. It is of a globular figure ; adhering, by a fmall point
at the "bafe, to fmall flicks, ftems-of plants, &c. when in a
ftate of decay. The furface is ftudded, at equal difiances, with
fmall brown grains, in which I could not perceive any pores.
In this, as well as the laft, the young plants are full of a white
gelly, which, w h e n they are at. full growth, changes to a dry
powder.