TAB. CCCLXXV. 



Fig. I. SPH^RIA pustula. var. fjiinuta. 



W E believe this to be a variety of S. pujlulata *, 

 tab. ^"jo.fig, 4. but rather fmaller. 



Fig. 2. S. SUPER-CRUSTACEA. 



THE upper part of this little Fungus, burfting the 

 cuticle of the flicks on which it grows, forms 3 or 4 

 tubercular rifings fomewhat crulfaceous : below, it 

 confiils of a rather irregular black mafs, not fo hard as 

 the upper part. 



Fig. 3. S. RiMosA. 



THIS may poffibly be a variety of 6". coriacea E. Fungi, 



tab. yji-Jjg- T- only growing in larger clufters, and 



fomewhat conglutinated together, forming cracks in 



drying. 



Fig. 4. S. DUPLEX. 



THIS is a very neat little Fungus, growing on the 

 fiftulous ftems of fome umbelliferous plants. The 

 neat round fphaerule is formed in the woody part of 

 it. The neck paffes ftraight to the cuticle. The 

 mouth, fpreading a little, makes a black fpot on the 

 outfide, which without careful examination might 

 be taken for a perfed Spharia, refembling S. pujlulata^ 

 which is often found among it. 



Fig. 5. S. gregaria. 



THIS we place here upon old authority, but cannot 

 pofitively affirm it to be a Sphceria. It appears to vary 

 extremely in fize and colour ; fometimes it is of a 

 bright or dull orange. We could only difcover it to be 

 fomewhat granulated on the outlide ; the infide is of a 

 lightifli brown. The whole is fometimes in lobes, 

 forming ftellac, or otherwife. 



Fig. 6. S. punctata. 



THIS little fphaerule fiands upon the face as it were 

 of a Lichen^ forming black pundures, more or lefs 

 round, of different fizes. Coat cruftaceous, black ; 

 within which is awhitifli coat including jelly or black 

 feed. This was fent me for Ver rue aria pun&ata of 

 Hoffmann. 



• Which ought to have been pujlula. 



