iu irregular profusion and forming papillate processes in consequence. By " ampliigenous," Fries does 

 not mean that the under surface of the pileus bears asci as well as the upper, but that these processes, and 

 the corrugations of the whole superior surface, are fruitful all over. The asci are visible to the naked eye 

 as a glittering bloom, like that of fruit. The second season, 1851, a portion of the decaying tree was again 

 enlivened with many a scarlet pileus, but not to anything like the same extent. The previous crop had 

 quite exhausted the nutriment fit for it, where it had been, and the soft black substance left behind was 

 covered- with a grey film, as it appeared at a little distance, — in reality the lovely cups of Pe:iza cinerea in 

 thousands. The upper branches of oui' devoted bigaroon were nodose with shapeless lumps of Pulypons 

 ignianus. And all this was the briar's doing, which is at present holding its head higher than ever, un- 

 conscious that the support it has so shamelessly abused must soon crumble away, leaving the long trails it 

 glories in, prone in the dust : unlike the ivy close by, which sustains, 



" And with her arms from falling keeps," 



the grey limbs over which she has formed dense green bowers, covered with the blossoms which afford food 

 to so many insects when little beside is presented to them. 



