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A N 



CLXVI. 



•mucedo. 



CLXVII. 



ctcfpitojus. 



CLXVIII. 

 botrytis. 



CLXIX. 

 reridus. 



HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 



M 



GENUS 



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XI. 



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R. 



MUCOR capjula globoja. Sp. PL 1655. Mich. Gen. t. 95, fig. 1. Flora. Dan. t. 467 , 



Jig. 4. Hudjon Angl. 646. 



GREY MOULD. 



TAB. CXXXII. FIG. I. 



THIS confifts of a fingle grey filament, crowned with a fmall globular grain, at firft 

 white and pellucid ; afterwards becomes grey and opaque ; at lalt burfts, like a 

 Lycoperdcn, and ejects numerous feeds. Grows on putrid fruits, &c. It is magnified 



at a. and ejecting the feeds at b. 



MUCOR Jiipite ramojo Jpicis tarnis. Sp. PL 1656. Hudjon Angl. 647. Mich. Gen. 



*• 9»> M- 3. +• 



TERNATE MOULD. 



TAB. CXXXII. F I G. II. 



THIS grows on putrid vegetables, in woods. It confiils of a filament, divided in 

 a ternate order; the extreme divifions refembling a firing of minute, white, pel- 

 lucid necklaces, which, when at maturity, burft, and difcharge oval feeds. Magnified 

 it appears as at b. 



MUCOR racemojus, Botrytis Jpicata grijea, Jeminibus rotundis. Mich. Gen. p. 212, 



/. 91, Jg.$. 



GRAPE MOULD. 



TAB. CXXXII. F I G. III. 



THIS is a filament, divided and fubdivided in an irregular manner; the extremities 

 of the divifions fuflaining each a grape-like duller of globular feed veffels. It 

 grew between the imbricated lobes of a large decaying plant of Boletus i/erficolar. Mag- 

 nified it appears as at a. b. 



MUCOR fiipitatusfugex, Jiipite copillacio, capitulo Jparico rorido nigra puntlulo in Jum- 

 mitate notato. Relhan Flor. Appen. planta ultima. Pluck, t. 1 l6, fig. 7. Ray Syn. 

 J>. 13, No. 13. 



EYED MOULD. 



TAB. CXXXII. F I G. IV. 



THIS grows in cluflers, and confifts of a fingle, upright, pellucid filament, four 

 lines high. It is pellucid and white, fuftaining a fmall globular head, like a 

 minute pearly drop, with a black fpot on its upper part ; which give the globe the re- 

 femblance of an eye in miniature.— —Grows on horfe-dung, in cloudy mornings; 

 perifhes when the fun fhines upon it. Found in Auguft and September, in fields about 

 Halifax, 



