SPHiERIA acaulis aggregatis tuberculofis fufcis, fpbarula con- c vcolor
is, Lycoperdon nigrum. Hud/on, Angl. 644. Dil. tuUrcuhf«.
Muß. t. 18, fig. 7. Mich. Gen. t. 54, ord. 11, Jig. 2.
Hall. Hiß. 2184-
T U B E R C U L O U S SP H ^ R I A .
T A B. CXXIII.:
F I ©• I.
/-T-VHIS is conftantly of a brown colour, both within and
A without; is the fize of a lentil, very prominent, or much
raifed from the furface of the bark on which it grows, which
is moil commonly that of the hazel treè, when its branches are
far advanced in decay. It always grows on thè inner bark, and
burfts the outer one to make itfelf waj . The fphsrulas or little
fpheres, are arranged, at equal diftànce, under the bark or
c o m m o n cover, as is expreffed in the magnified figures. The
figure in the centre is à iingle lphasrulai, cut horizontally and
magnified. It is a common plant in woods and hedges about
Halifax.
SPHiERIA acaulis aggregatis globofis cinereis, rugofis magnis. • CLVL
m^HjH nm rugoja.
R O U G H I P il m R I A.
TAB. CXXIII.
SHE fize of this is from a quarter to half an inch in
diameter ; it is covered' with a bark of a browniih aihcoloir.
It is rough to the touch,;®by reafon of numerous
minute tubercles with which it is covered. The fubftance is
a s hard and firm,almoft as dry wood; it is brown.within, and
the little fpheres'or feed vcficls are too minute for the mfpection
of the naked eye. When a little magnified they appeared
as in the lower figure.- -Grows on the bark of'dead and
fallen elm branches: I believe- this plant to be fpecifically
diftind from the laiL The fpecimen here figured and defcribed
op -rew in Southoivram, near Halifax.