GROWING about HALIFAX. 125 



SPHiERIA acaulls, aggregata fabtomentofa. An fphceria to- CLVIII. 

 montofa. Relhan, Flor. Afp. alt. p. 31, No. 1 107? oiduaa. 



COVERED SPH^RIA. 



TAB. CXXV. 



HpHE whole clufter is about thefize of a brown muftard feed, 

 -* and adheres, by its bafe, to the furface of the inner bark 

 of dead branches, forcing its way through the outer. While 

 young it is covered with a foft downy or cottony matter, of a 

 dead white colour; which cover falls off in the progrefs of 

 growth, and leaves the aggregate naked, and of a mining 

 black. The plants are figured of their natural fize at a. — at 

 b. and c. they are magnified in two different degrees, to (hew 

 their appearance while furrouhded, at the bafe, with the outer 

 bark of the wood on which they grow; at d. the outer bark is 

 removed, to give a diftincl: fide view of the whole aggregate; 

 this is ftill further magnified : — at c. a fingle Sphaeria is further 

 magnified, to ihew the difpofition of the fphaerulas or feed 

 vefTels. Thefe fphaerula?, when I opened them, were fome of 

 them full of a pale coloured gelly, others had a black duft, and 

 fome feemed to be empty. 



I found it growing in great plenty, on fallen decaying 

 branches of feveral kinds of trees, in Bradley -Woods, near 

 Elland, in February, 1789. 



