assume a very different appearance, so as not to be recogniz- 

 able, but actually assume a different chemical character. 

 Such are several of the Trichia;, and I suspect this to be 

 very nearly related to Trichia nuda, tab. 50, which I have 

 detected very nearly in this state in Kensington Gardens 

 and the Grove, Lambeth. Thus if this substance is found 

 and watched, perhaps a few hours or the next day may have 

 completed its change to such a state in which it may be 

 recognized; at present it appears to be beginning to form 

 into lengthened heads, leaving a part for the stipes, like a 

 very close congeries of unripened Trichia nuda, and it has 

 apparently surrounded stalks, leaves, &c. copiously as Trichia 

 nuda often does. It burns with a vegetable, and not au 

 animal scent, as also does Tremella nostoc, English Botany, 

 461. Frog-spawn, either with or without the little embryo 

 which has been taken for the seeds, may be detected by this 

 means, as when burnt it has the smell of burnt bones. My 

 highly esteemed and ingenious friend, the Rev. H. Davies, 

 has greatly elucidated this subject in Welch Botanology, 

 pages 115, 116, 117. 



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TAB. CCCCXXXVI. 



SPHiERIA MULTICAPSULA, 



JVlR. Thomas Purton sent me this from Alcester on the 2nd 

 of Nov. 1810. It is in the aggregate, a flattish or conical, 

 somewhat spreading mass, deep brown, and a little rugged 

 externally : mouths of the capsules obsolete : when cut later- 

 ally it is very black, and the sphasrules appear crowded in 

 two or three irregular tiers above each other, and are about 

 the size of the air-vessels in the wood which are dry and black- 

 ish in its vicinity, and look nearly like a continuance of it, 



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TAB. CCCCXXXVI I. 



SPH^RIA PEDUNcuLATA. Dicks. 4. 27. 



X/R. ABBOT was so kind as to send me specimens of this 

 in April, 1805, from Bedford. The species comprehends 

 Sphffiria pcdunculata and varieties bicapitated in the usual 

 state of monoicous plants, either with peduncles or sessile, 

 besides the longer rhizomorphous looking stipes and root. I 

 suspect it may possibly be thought a sportive variety of Spha;ria 

 hypoxilon, tab, 55, as well as S. ramosa, tab. 395. One of 

 the specimens had a roughly tuberous base. 



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TAB. CCCCXXXVIII. 

 See Tab. 420, lower figures. 



SPH.ERIA FLUENS. 



JVIY kind friend Ciiarles Lyell, Esq. sent me this some time 

 since from the New Foi-est. It seems to flow in cracks of the 



