T A B. CCXVI. 



SPHi'>RIA DEPRESSA. IVitb. v. 4. p. 394. 

 VARIOLARIA punctata. Bu//. tab. 432. yf^--. 2. 



IN OT uncommon on bits of rotten (licks, and fome- 

 what rdembling Spbceria decorticata^ t. 137, in a young 

 rtatc ; but it differs in not fprcading fo much, being 

 thicker and more elevated, with more crowded or 

 double rows of fphoerulcC, and the inner fubrtance 

 is w^hiter. This fungus burfts the cuticle of the 

 branches, which foon curls back. 



T A B. CCXVII. 



SPH^RIA DECOxMPQXENS. 



X HIS feems to have efcaped notice. It is found on 

 fticks deftitute of bark, ftaining a portion of many feet 

 nearly all over, and feemingly decompofing the outer 

 fubrtance into a charcoal, or at Icaft a charred appear- 

 ance, the fphocrulx lying underneath more in the 

 fubftance of the Hick. 



TAB. CCXVIII. 

 SPH^RIA SATURN us. 



-rV SINGULAR produdion. I have had it growing 

 on decaying peach and apricot grafts at 1 -ambcth thel'e 

 two years. The fphxTule is held to the orbit, or 

 l)lack ring, furrounding it, by fine whitilh cottony 

 threads. Ibis ring is found by a perpendicular fec- 

 tion to be the edge of a fort of falver including the 

 fplucrule, from which fometimes exudes a gummy 

 tendril through the cuticle or outer bark. The face 

 is feen diltinctly on the next coat, and the fubllance 

 is imbedded in the under brownilli bark. 



