XXIX. The/Hiflory and Defeription of a Minute Epiphyllous Lycoper- 
don, apn on the Leaves of the Anemone nemorofa. By Richard 
Pulteney, M. D. F. R. S. S. Lond. and Edin. and F. L. S. 
Read "fune 5, 1792. 
T 1s s many years fince I was firft acquainted with the produc- 
ion which | beg to lay a: an account before the Lin- 
nean Society. —-— “it had frequ ntly occurred to me, 
I had negleéted to give it an accurate examination by means of 
glaffes; having refted i in the opinion which I had met with in fe- 
veral modern authors, that thofe Tubercula, or Punéta, as they 
have been moft commonly ftyled, on the leaves of the Anemone 
nemorofa, were the eggs of an infect. 
.. An opportunity of feeing fome of thefe plants early this Spring, 
put it in my power to give thefe appearances a more exact fcru- 
tiny ; the refult of which convinced me, that thefe tubercles were 
themfelves a vegetable production of a parafitical kind, and of 
the order of Fungi: of which, it may be remarked, that very 
few fpecies are known to vegetate on the perfect and living 
foliage, although many inhabit the dead and putrid leaves, of 
plants. 
Before I defcribe more minutely the Fungus in queftion, I will 
briefly recite what I colle& concerning the plant on which it is 
Vor. II. Rr found ; 
