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AURICULARIA PHOSPHOREA.
BYSSUS PHOSPHOREA. Linn. Mant. p. 721.
1 H E young and moft common ftate of this plant
has the appearance of a ByJJus, and often feems httle
elfe than the purple colour caufed on the wood by the
damp or the gallic acid, and the friilion and iron of
a faw. When older it becomes of a more vivid deep
purple, and often under favourable circumftances
forms an Auricularia; which'appearing to be its mOft
perfect form, we refer it to that genus. Its fibres
penetrated the fubftance of the paper it was wrapped
up in, and began to form on the oppofite or outer
fide, being iliut up in a damp box. The whole is of a
more or lefs denfe cottony or fibrous texture.
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PEZIZA DOMESTICA.
T H IS has been known about ten years on new
plaiftered cielings, or walls which admit the rain. It
firit clothes the places that have been thus wetted,
with a fine cottony or membranous film, nearly as
vi hite as the plaifter, which is in a ihort time partly
covered with falmon-coloured knobs. Thefe at lengh
form a kind of upright Peziza, externally villofe.
CCCLII.
PEZIZA EQUINA.
HELVELLA EQUINA. F.Dan, tai. 7 7 9 - 3 .
F R E Q U E N T on horfe-dung in damp fliady places,
and generally in abundance. It feldom expands, is of
a dull fox colour, and rough or hifpid on the outfide.
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CLAVARIA HERBARUM? Perfoon Comment, de Fung,
clavaf. t, s-J>S- 4-
FOUND near Lacham houfe, Devon, the feat of my
good friend Colonel Montague, by Mr. Gibbs, growing
on dead fl:alks. It is like C. ophioglajoides in miniature,
hut is fmootherandof a more uniform colour all over.
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SPH^RIA AGARICIFORMIS. Bolt. 130.
I HAVE only feen one fpecimen of this fungus, for
which I am obliged to the Rev. Mr. Francis, whofe
lady found it at Holt in Norfolk. Being gathered too
haftily, fo as to be broken from the root, it was confequently
imperfeft; and infefts having made it more
fo in my herbarium, I am unwilling not to figure it
while there are fome remains to identify fo rare a
fpecies, which with the help of Mr. Bolton's figures
I am enabled to do. The bafe is like a Lycaperdon ; the
ftipes fiftular, yellowifli and finooth; the head oval or
egg-fhaped, brown, and fo fmooth on the outfide that
the mouths of the imbedded fph^rulse are fcarcely
perceptible.
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S P H J E R I A GRANULOSA. Bull.
M O S T frequent on dead birch-branches. It firft
burfts from between the cuticle and cortex in a light
fpongy-looking knob, foon enlarging to half an inch
or more in diameter, and a quarter thick, having
fphserute imbedded in the furface, whofe mouths touch
the outfide. In this ftate the whole is black, and the
outfide fomewhat cruftaceous.