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CLIir. SPHyERIA /implex, globofa nigra nitide.- Sphcerìa aggregata. Rilhan
bombardica. blor. 35, No. 1061. Lycoyerdon nigrum. Ligbtfoot Scot, ,106a
fig- *»f> Mich. Gin. t. 54, ord. 37, fig. 4. •
G U N P O W D E R SPH^R I A.
T A B. 'GXXII. ' • „ F I G. II.
f T ^ H E S E are globubar grains, of a-finning black colour, growing
JL cloie together in.-vail numbers,, and fo aptly refembling fine o-unpowder
that when I firft faw the plant, I was for a moment adfually
deceived with it. I firft found it on the root of a large aih tree, the
t r u n k of which had been fawn off clofe by the ground) it covered
almoft the whole furface, in one fingle ftratum5 the plants being feparate,
or not adhering to one another. •
Grows-moft frequently on the end of the grain, on ftumps of trees;
rarely on the fide of the grain. The old plants are perforated in the
centre, and w,hite within.
** aggregate^ covered fphcerulce.
CLIV* SPH^RI A acauHsgf aggregate nigra. nitida. ~
defreffa.
D E P R E S S E D SPH JE R T A.
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r p H I S is of an intenfe black colour, the furface fhinirig, the figure
r-Ta n i H ova1' fometimes irregular. It is of an hard
iubftance, and the rotundance of the black fphaeruls, which are lodaed
under the bark or common cover, make the furface feem as if covered
with low fmooth warts. The fubftance of the common cover is firm
and hard, and internally of a-fair white; and is replete with fphairulaj
which are of a glofiy black. f r ><*-> ui«c,
. jf1. differs from ^e Sphteria tuierculofa, in being of a black colour
m being a larger plant, in its compreffed figure, in that the bark isinternally
white, in that the fphasrulse are more numerous, and in that
ft grows on the external, not infernal, rind or bark of fallen and decaying
branches of trees. -- if 3 ; '