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SPHtERIA 7nagna, craffa, atra, fupern puftulis notata. T>ickfon ccxxx.
Crypt. Faf. i. P. 23. WeVwGoeit % 286. Hypoxy Ion ujlu- maxima,
latum. Bulbar & Tme, P. 176;. No^li. Hall. Hijl. No;.''
2192. Mzrfc P. 104.. S/phceria deitjla. Hoff. Crypt.
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GRE A T E ST SPH M R I A.
T A B. CLXXXr.
-Aprils grows on tlic flumps of trees -and old wood, when far
. advanced in a flate of decay) it is more flat or convex according
t Q ^ ^ge ; is perennial, abiding from 'year toAyear. The
furface is of a dead black,, and appears almoft like the leather of
an old boot or flioe. The fubftance is .very brittle, and the fur- •
face, efpeciully in old plants, made very uneven by means of '
•fifing. bunches,- or .tumour-like f\yel lings,- and is clofely befet at
one time of the year, with fmall rifing • puflules, at another by
linking punctures'* ' t . '
The feed-veflels are fphcerical, and lodged in a flratum clofe
uncjer the bark or outer covering of the plant; to the infide of
which, when the plant is diy, they adhere by their mouths, for
the Tefl of the internal fubftance penlhcs', and it becomes hollow.'
At B. a piece is obliquqly cut off, to.ihew the arrangement of
the feed-veflels j and another is cut downright, at C'.. for the fame
purpofe. At D. a fingle feed-veflel is a little magnified; and at
E. another cut open.
- The fpecimens here defcribed, grew on the old flump of an
afh tree: near Ellandy amongft others much, larger.