GROWING about HALIFAX. 127 



SPHiERIA acaulis, fubglobofa folkaria glabra. Tramella pur- ' CLX. 

 purea. Sp. PL 1628. Dill. Mufc. t.iS,fg-2. Mich. miniattt . 

 Gen- t. 95, Jig. 3. Sphaeria convexaminiatahirjuta. Hall. 

 Hijl. 2189. 



PINK-COLOURED SPH^RIA. 



TAB. CXXVII. FIG. I. 



'HpHIS is the fize of a white muftard feed, of a fpherical 

 ■*• figure, and of a colour between red and pink. It is at 

 firft fmooth, hard, and folid; as it advances, a thin filmy or 

 downy epidermis is thrown off, under which very minute 

 fphaerulae may fometimes be found ; after the difcharge of 

 this covering, the plant remains for fome time with a downy 

 furface. It is reprefented of its naturul fize at a. and b- The 

 other figures mew it magnified in two degrees, and cut in two 



directions. It is a very common plant on decaying bark, 



about Halifax. 



*** ftalhed. 



SPH./ERIA nivea, plana, pimttis nigricantibus. Hall. Hijl. CLXI - 



2 1 84. Peziza turbinata truncata, dijco punctata- Lin. truncal. 



Sp. PI. 1650. Relban, Flor. 464, No- 964. Hud/on, 



Angl- 634, 4. Lightjoot, Scot. 1050, 4. 



LOPPED SPHiERIA. 



TAB. CXXVII. F I G. II. 



r T"^HIS Sphaeria is top-fhaped, lopped off above where it is 

 •*■ white, and marked with'numerous fmall black punctures. 

 The ftem or rifing part is black ; the fubftance of the plant 

 within is white ; under each of the black punctures on the 

 furface is lodged a black fphaerulae. The fedlion at a. fhews 

 the difpofition of thefe fphaerulae. b. is a fmall particle more 

 highly magnified, to fhew the manner in which the feeds are dif- 

 charged. The fubftance of the whole is dry, tough, and elaftic. 



Grows on dry dunghills, about Halifax, in Winter and 



Spring. 



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