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T A B . CCCXIV.
SPHTERIA. SOLIDA.
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1 HIS Fungus,fo frequent on dead ftalksof umbelliferous
plants, has leldom been found with the little
fpicul® or mouths as here figured. It is chiefly compofed
of a white fohd fubftance, more or lefs oblong,
and covered with a black cruit.
T A B. CCCXV.
SPH^.RIA SULCATA. Bolt. 124.
M R . Griffith in Dr. Withering's Botanical Arrangement,
vol. 4. tab. 395. obferves that this plant is the
old ftate of Lichen tricolor. I have had it from Mr. Abbot
and others on pieces of rtick. See. where it fliould appear
the Lichen tricolor could never have exifted. Small
morfels of Lichen jcriptus may refemble it a little, but
a fcrupulous examination of the true plant will prove
it to be really diflindt.
T A B . CCCXVL
S P H ^ R I A BIFRONS.
V E R Y common on the decayed leaves and ftalks of
the Holly, Ilex aquifolium, but we believe it has hitherto
efcaped publication. We have called it bifrons, on
account of its having the fame appearance on either
fide of the leaf. It is nearly flat, rifing a little above
the diflc of the leaf, and quite black. There are cottony
fibres penetrating the leaf from one fide to the
other. We could not deteif any thing like feeds.
T A B . CCCXVII.
S P H ^ R I A CONCAVA.
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«JOMEWHAT more common than the laft mentioned,
and readily to be diftinguifhed by its concave diik,
which only penetrates through the upper fide of the
Holly-leaf. It has an operculum or cover, which appears
to be the cuticle or outer ikin of the leaf. It is
obfervable that the leaves of the Holly are compofed of
two fets of nerves as well as membranes, upper and
under, which in decay feparate.
T A B . CCCXVIII.
^ C I D I U M LACERATUM.
F O U N D at Batterfea on a May-bufli, Mefpilus Oxycantha
Fl. Brit. It grew upon the young buds, and feems
nearly related to the following Fungus.