GROWING about HALIFAX. 



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LYCOPERDON cortice farinaque purpurea. Sp. PI. 1654. Schaf.Fung. t. 193. CXLVII. 

 Lycoferdcn epipbyllum, Hud/on Angl. 645, 14. f pider.drum. 



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PUFF-BALL. 



TAB. CXIX. 



FIG. I. 



THE fpecimens before me, grow on heaps of Bryumfcoparium, which have been 

 fome time dead, and are turning to a wet mould; or vegetable earth. 



The figure is round or oval, in fome oblong, or pointed on one fide. The external 

 covering, in the young plants, is of a foft fubftance, and a reddifh colour; in the older 

 fpecimens, this outer covering is fallen off, and the inner is of a moufe colour, and a 

 mining furface. The root confifts of two or three downy filaments, by which it adheres 

 to the foft fpungy matter upon which it grows. On being touched, or gently preffed, it 

 ejects a fine dull or powder, of a pale pink colour, from various fmall perforations in 

 feveral parts of the furface. This powder, under Cuff's firft magnifier, appeared 

 to be a fpherical feed. Grows in woods about Halifax. 



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HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 



GENUS 



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x. 

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A. 



* with frmple naked fph<erul,t. 



SPH-.'ERIA diformis iiarie-coloris carne alto. Dicifon Crypt , /as. 1, p.2$. Murr. Syjl. 

 981. Hall. Hijt. 2178. Gleichen Suppl. t.6. Relban Flor. Append. 34, No. 1057 . 



CABBAGE 



TAB. CXIX. 



S P H JE R I A. 



F I G. II. 



THIS grows on the leaves of cabbage, when in a moift, decayed ftate, and reduced 

 to a kind of flippery mucilage ; they are found, in the greateft plenty, where 

 feveral folds of the leaves lie over each other, and grow on every fold. In their firft 

 rlage they are white, gelatinous, tranfparent, and the fize of a muftard feed, as at a. 

 from which they change to a reddifh brown, of various degrees, as is exprefied in the 

 figure. When full grown they are the fize of a lentil, and turn quite black: As it ap- 

 proaches decay, it becomes hollow in the centre, as at d. Its root is a fingle white fila- 

 ment.' a 1 It is very common about Halifax. 



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CXLVIII. 



brajjicte. 



