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CXLIX. SPHiERIA /implex aggregata coccinea minima. Dickfon Crypt, fas. i, 

 p. 22. Weigel, p. 45, /, 2, fig. 11. RelhanFlor. Append, alt. p. 31, 

 No. 1 105. 



mon. 



MULBERRY 



TAB. CXX. 



SPH£RIA. 



FIG. I. 



IT adheres to the decaying bark of fallen elm trees, by a narrow bafe 

 or claw, of an hard firm fubftance, and of a red colour. The 

 teparatefpbarulte are naked, or without common cover ; they are not 

 properly globular, but rather turban-lhaped, adhering by a narrow 

 bale, as at/. A fingle fph^rula, laid open in two directions and magni- 

 fied, is feen at d. e. A clufter, cut perpendicularly through the centre 

 and a little magnified, appeared as at c. — a. b. is the natural fize. At 

 its firft appearance it is of a golden or orange colour •, when full grown» 

 a deep bloody fcarlet; turning quite black in decay. 



Found in great plenty about Halifax, in January and February. 



CL. 

 glauca. 



SPHiERIA nuda fpharula turbinata extus glauca — intus alba. 

 caruleo — ngiricans. Relhan Flor. p. 424, No. 847. 



Lichen 



SEA-GREEN 



SPH^RIA. 



TAB. CXX. 



F I G. II. 



THIS Sphseria, like the laft, is naked, and without common cover. 

 The fpharula are turban-fhaped, as at b. they are of a glaucus 

 colour on theoutfide, and white within ; cut open and magnified, they 

 appeared as at d. e.f. while young they are full of a white jelly, like 

 the reft of the genus; when old the turbinated top fhrinks down, turns 

 black, and becomes hollow, as at c. The fpharula, in this ftate, have 

 been accepted for the Shields, by thofe who chufe to call the plant a 

 Lichen. 



Grows on Braham-Moor, near Leeds. The Lichen coeruka nigricans, 

 of Lightfoot, he fays, is befet with numerous black convex tubercles or 

 warts ; this plant I have feen, and believe it to be a variety of the L. atro 

 albus, of the fame author. Lightfoot fa iv not the fruclification of atro 

 albus ; I have feen them, and found them to be perfect Shields, of a-reddiffi 

 colour. 



