TA B. CCCLXXIIl. 



Fig. I. SPH.-ERIA Vaccinii. 



Somewhat egg-fhaped, {landing with the point 

 upwards ; it grows more or lefs crowded, furrounding 

 the ftalk of Vaccinium Vitis-idaa. 



Fig. 2. S. RUBIFORMIS. 



ROUND, mortly crowded, and finely tuberculated. 



Fig. 3. S. COLL APS A. Variolaria corrugata. Bull. 432. 4. 

 Hyjlerhim nigrum, Tode Fung. Meckl. 8. 64. 



FROM its affinity to S. fulcata, we judge this alfo a 

 Spharia, it being apparently the fame thing unrolled. 

 It is fometimes larger and a little different in fliape, 

 generally fituated under the cuticle of the fticks it 

 grows on, and dries up irregularly. 



Fig. 4. S. CIRCUMVALf.ATA. 



FOUND on an oak leaf. The fphasrule is formed in 

 the fubftance of the leaf. On the upper fide appear 

 I, 2, 3, or more black convex fpots, furrounded with 

 a black margin at a little diftance, penetrating the leaf 

 perpendicularly. 



FjG. 5. S. CURVIROSTRA. 



THIS is very minute. Its fphaerulje are imbedded in 

 the plant on which they grow. 1 he mouth is in length 

 nearly twice the diameter of the fphserule, fianding 

 obliquely. 



Fig. 6. S. Gnomon. I'ode Fung. Meckl. t. 16. f. 125. 



THIS Sphxria is very fmall, but on examining it 

 with a magnifier it may be readily underftood. 



Fig. 7. S. TERRESTRIS. 



F^OUND on the bare earth (an unufual circum- 

 fiance with Spbarir) in Kenfington Gardens. It is 

 fomething like S. btfpida of lode Fung. Meckl. t. 10. 

 Jig. 84. but the hairs are chiefly at the bottom. 



Fig. 8. S. SUBSECRETA. 



THIS refides under the cuticle, on rotting fiicks of 

 poplar. The bark is generally in that cafe decompofed, 

 and very fibrous. '1 he Fungus being inferted in the 

 interllices of thofe fibres. It is nearly round, but in- 

 dented towards the top, which gives it a flattifli ap- 

 pearance. 1 he mouth protuberates a little, and has a 

 fingle aperture, although the lip, if I may fo call it, is 

 divided into 4 parts. It occalionally perforates the 

 cuticle. 



