TAB. CLXXIX. 



RETICULARIA multicapsula. 



1 HIS is at firft of a frothy, afterwards a mucilaginous 

 texture. As it advances towards maturity, it fettles 

 into little roundifli protuberances, and feems a fome- 

 what condenfed powder. At length we find it com- 

 pofed of an innumerable quantity of oblong capfules, 

 filled with a fine powder or feed. The operculum, or 

 cover, feems, like the fame powder, a little hardened 

 by external moifture, or fome mucilaginous matter. 

 I am not quite fatisfied to call it a Reticularia ; but muft 

 leave the definitions of all the Genera till we are more 

 informed. 



TAB. CLXXX. 



TRICHIA POLYMORPHA. 



1 FIRST found this in the outfide gallery above the 

 dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, April 5th, 1794* 

 on a cindery fub fiance. I have frequently feen it fince 

 on putrifying bones, Sec. The Rev. Mr. Alderfon, of 

 Hevingham, Norfolk, found fome on Norfolk cheefe, 

 in his cellar, which was brought me by Mr. Dawfon 

 Turner, of Yarmouth, June ift, 1798. All cheefe 

 feems to have it in a young or imperfect fl:ate, as the 

 yellow, orange and red tints indicate ; the fubftance is 

 extremely tender and mealy, but durable if not touch- 

 ed. I have both fpecimens by me, not decayed. 



