Fig. 2. S. PARASITICA. 



THIS little Spbaria grows on the frudlification and 

 cruft oi Lichen vernalis. It was fent by the Rev. Mr. 

 Harriman from Durham. 



Fig. 3. S. HIRSUTA. 

 WAS found by the Rev. W. Kirby between the 

 plarter walls of his houfe, while repairing. It grows 

 in little bundles, each tubercled and covered with fine 

 hairs. The outfide is blackifh, the inlide fometimes has 

 a border of white. 



FjG. 4. S. SCOPULA. 



FOUND on rotting balkets of wicker, and on old 

 hoops, at Mead Place. At firft the Fungi feem only 

 little tufts of fine black hairs; but fomemore advanced 

 contain a little black fphaerule : the hairs are feathered, 

 or furniilied with little hairs upon them. 



Fig. 5. Clavarta tenuis. 

 FOUISFD on bits of rotting wood at Mead Place in the 

 coal cellar, in damp weather. It lefembles a httle black 

 hair thickening upwards. 



TAB. CCCLXXXVII. 



Fig. I. FIBRILLARIA stellata. 



1 THOUGHT it neceffary to figure this, and another 

 or two of the imperfe6t Fungi, that they might be 

 the better underitood when found. 



Moft Fungi, apparently when feedlings, produce 

 fmall cottony fibres, and fome alTume a more determi- 

 nate form, without coming to their full growth or 

 figure. If reprefented, and for the prefent named, in 

 fuch a ftate, they can be hereafter traced to their pro- 

 per genera, when they happen to unfold their fru6lifi- 

 cation. This figure is not uncommon, and on exami- 

 nation feems compofed of fmall white fibres, branch- 

 ing, and fpreading flat on bits of ftick in a llellated 

 manner. 



