GROWING about HALIFAX. 123 



SPHi^RIA acaulis aggregatis tuber culojis Jujcis, Jphcerula con- CLV - 



coloris, Lycoperdon nigrum. Hudjon, Angl. 644. Dil. tuherculof*. ' 

 Mufc. t. 18, Jig. 7. Mich. Gen. t. 54, ord. 11, Jig. 2. 

 Hall.HiJl. 2184. 



TUBERCULOUS SPH^RIA. 



TAB. CXXIII. F 1 G. I._ 



npHIS is conftantly of a brown colour, both within and 

 -"- without ; is the fize of a lentil, very prominent, or much 

 raifed from the furface of the bark on which it grows, which 

 is moft commonly that of the hazel tree, when its branches are 

 far advanced in decay. It always grows on the inner bark, and 

 burfts the outer one to make itfelf way. The fphaerulae or little 

 fpheres, are arranged, at equal diftance, under the bark or 

 common cover, as is exprefled in the magnified figures. The 

 figure in the centre is a iingle fphserulae, cut horizontally and 



magnified. It is a common plant in woods and hedges about 



Halijax. 



SPH^PTA acaulis aggregatis globojis cinereis, rugojis tnagnis. 



ROUGH S P H JE R I A. 



T A B. CXXIII. FIG. II. 



'Tf^HE fize of this is from a quarter to half an inch in 

 -*■ diameter ; it is covered with a bark of a brownifh afh- 

 colour. It is rough to the touch, by reafon of numerous 

 minute tubercles with which it is covered. The fubflance is 

 as hard and firm almoft as dry wood ; it is brown within, and 

 the little fpheres or feed veffels are too minute for the inflec- 

 tion of the naked eye. When a little magnified they appeared 



as in the lower figure. Grows on the bark of dead and 



fallen elm branches. I believe this plant to be fpecifically 

 diitinct from the laft. The fpecimen here figured and defcribed 

 grew in Soutfjowram, near Halifax. 



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rugofa. 



