GROWING about HALIFAX. 121 

 SPHiERIA Jimplex, ovata f anguine a apice perforata. 

 BLOOD-COLOURED SPH^RIA. 



CLI. 



fangitines. 



T 



TAB. CXXI. FIG. I. 



k HIS Sphaeria grows on putrid wood ; great numbers grow 

 in clofe neighbourhood, but do not in any wife adhere to 

 one another. They are oval or egg-fhaped; the bafe being 

 broader than the top. Each has a perforation in the top, and 

 is about the fize of a poppy feed, as in the lower figure; the 

 other figures {hew them, as they appeared when magnified, 

 and cut both perpendicularly and horizontally. The colour, on 

 the outfide, is a deep, bright, bloody hue ; the furface fhining 

 with a glofs, like polifhed coral ; the infide and the feeds are 



white. This fpecimen grew on putrid wood, befide the 



fpring of Elin-Cragg-IVell, at Bell-Bank, near Bingley, in ' 

 June, 1786. 



SPH^RIA Jimplex, glohofa virida cor t ice granulata, granula CLII. 



fujca. i/irdis. 



GREEN SPHiERIA. 



TAB. CXXI. F I G. II. 



/ ~T~ V HIS is about the fize of a white muftard feed ; when 

 ■*■ growing, of a frefh green colour; when dry, a pala 

 brown. It is of a globular figure; adhering, by a fmall point 

 at the bafe, to fmall flicks, Items of plants, &c. when in a 

 ftate of decay. The furface is ftudded, at equal distances, with 

 fmall brown grains, in which I could not perceive any pores. 

 In this, as well as the laft, the young plants are full of a white 

 gelly, which, when they are at full growth, changes to a dry 

 powder. 



