ACOTYLEDONS. FUNGI. SphcZl'ia, 5 



Hab. On rotten wood, frequent, Sept., Uojtk. 



5. S.fusca, roundish somewhat confluent brown nearly of the 

 same colour within, sphaerules umbilicated scarcely prominent. 

 Pers.p.\2. SphcBiia tuberculosa J Light/, p. \l\3. Sow. 



t.374./. 8. 

 Hab. On decayed wood, autumn, not uncommon, Lighff., Hopk. 

 Rosslyn, on decayed branches of hazel, Mr. Greville. 



6. S. ribesia, small bursting through the bark elliptical black 

 somewhat depressed, sphaerules whitish within. Pers. p. 14. 



Hab. On the dead stems of Currant bushes about Edinb. Nov. Mr. 

 Greville. 



*x* Form various, spreading, orbicular, or rounded. Spherules scat- 

 tered, horizontal, imbedded in a Jleshij substance; their orifices mostly 

 prominent, papilUform , or spinulose. 



7. S. poronia, stipitate peziziform whitish, disk truncated, 

 sphaerules scattered punctiform black. Pers. p. \^. Peziza 

 pimctata, Lightf. p. 1050. Sphceria punctata, Sow. t. 54. 



Hab. On dry horse- and cow-dung, Lightf. On dry dung-hills and 

 old hot-beds, rare, Hopk. 



8. S. deusta, broadly spreading thick undulato-rugose pustulate, 

 at first fleshy greyish white, afterwards black and rigid. Pers, 

 p. 16. S. maxima, Sow. t. 338. 



Hab. On trunks of trees about Kinross. Sept. Mr. Greville. ^ 



9. S. undulata, naked thickish undulato-rugose, the orifices of 

 the sphcerules prominent roundish, receptacle of the sphaerules 

 whitish. Pers. p. 21. 



Hab. Trunks of trees about Edinb. Aug. Mr. Greville. 



About 2 inches wide, and 1 — 2 lines thick, surface undulato-rugose. 



10. S. Stigma, spreading smooth rimose, orifices of the sphaerules 

 immersed nearly plane. Pers.p.2\. Hy poxy Ion opercida- 

 tum. Bull. Champ, t. \l^.f. 2. 



|3. decorticala, spreading longitudinally, orifices prominent, sub- 

 conical. S. decorlicans, Movg. et Ncstl. A^o. 373. 



Hab. a. On dead trunks of cherry-trees about P^dinb. Sept. Mr. 

 Greville. /3. On the barkless stems of Corylus avellana, vAiOMt 

 Edinb. and Kinross. Sept. Mr. Greville. 



11. S. disciformis, scattered orbicular nearly plane smooth, ori- 

 fices immersed punctiform. Pers. p. 24. 



Hab. Trunks of trees about Edinb. Autumn. Mr. Greville. 

 One to two lines broad, brown, bursting through the epidermis, white 

 within. 



12. S. bullata, depressed roundish oval or reniform, orifices pa- 

 pillose. Pers. p. 27. S. depressa, Soio. t. 216. 



Hab. On the bark of decaying branches of trees, frequent, April. 



Hopk. 

 Larger than the last, black, with prominent orifices. White v,-ithin. 



