CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Lycoperdon. (4) Stemless ; 317 
AST 
~ "The spots on'theleaves of Sorbus aucuparia consist of mie 
ute globules intermixed with wool-like fibres. On examining 
many of them in different states I at length found a small mag- 
ot in.some of the younger spots, so. that the globules are pro. 
bly its excrement, and the fibres the woody. fibres of the 
plant unfit for its food. wail Aug. 1798. 
On the back of the leaves of Tussilago Farfara, very com- 
mon, Decaying et leaves, and mosses. [On the leaves of 
T. Petasites. Mr. Woopwarp, On those of the Bartsia -vis- 
cosa, Mr, SrackHouse,] | i, Aug.— May, 
Lyc. White, spherical, solitary, parasitical, sitting, con- inna‘tum, 
_  taimng a white powder, and opening at the top with 
many clefts, ; 
Ray Sym. x iy G > 
First observable like greenish tubercles within the outer. cu- 
ticle of the leaf on which it grows, from under which it 
emerges of a white colour and a widely conical form with a 
small pore at the top, This small opening gradually enlarging 
_ it becomes glass or pitcher-shaped, the edge tearing into numerous 
Segments. The cavity appears filled with a white a Lee 
mixed with wool-like fibres, The whole becomes yellowish and ~~ 
then brown, much resembling in this advanced age the fructifi- 
cation of a Polypody, Allied to the Lycoperd. epiphyllum, but 
differs from that in growingsingle, not inclusters, inbeing whitey 
not orange pe and in the mouth not opening into 8 or 9, 
but into many irregular clefts. Pulteney in Gis r. li, Sil. 
Lycoperdon Anemones. ibid. FEcidium fuscum. Relh. suppl. 
Conjuror of Chalgraves Fern, On leaves of the Anemone ne. - 
morosa, Mr, Relhan has since seen it on the Adoxa moschatel- 
lina, Carduus arvensis and Betonica officinalis. Mr. Gough 
also found it on the root-leaves of the latter plant, in the month 
of May. 
Lyc. :(Barscu.) Blue ong lobular, rough and branny : cine’reum, 
_ seeds like sand, i black, intermnined with zig- 
zag white fibres, 
Batsch 169-Mich, 96. 9. 
About the size of a pin’s head; brittle. Barscu. 
_ Found by Mr, Relhan on rotten leaves in Madingley Planta- 
tions, Cambridgeshire, - Aug. 
Lye. Small, globular, brittle: bark and dust purple, epiden’drum 
