CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Sphatria. (2) Stemless) = 485. 
3 globular, purple, somewhat jelly-like. Werte. ols, 
46. ee 
Bull. 284-Weig. obs, 3. 1-Bolt. 197. 1-Hoffm. crypt. is 6 2 
—Dill. 18. 6-Mich..95, 3~Gled. 6. Mucor. f. 8. as 
This plant is not absolutely without a stem, but the stem is 
very short and nearly as thick at the top, entering into the sub- 
stance of the bark on which it growsi In some specimens the © 
top part is of a full vermillion, and the lower part of a yellow- % 
ish colour, In other specimens this order of colour is reversed. 
It is common in this latter variety to find young shoots growin 
up closé to the stems of the older plants, the heads of whic 
have the full vermillion colour. It varies from the size of a 
pin’s head to that of a hemp-seed. Bolton’s figure makes it 
decidedly a Sphzria, but the other figures donot. Hoffman 
says he has never found the spherules or capsules which consti. 
tute a Sphzria; Bolton says he sometimes found them. Possi- 
bly there may be two plants, the one Male, the other Female. 
Tremella purpurea. Linn, Huds. Lightf.~Sph. miniata. 
Bolt. On pieces of half rotten sticks, plentiful. 
Autumn, Winter, and Spring. 
Sex. Compound, convex, mostly solitary: pith mealy, lycoper- 
black: rind tawny, friable. Were. ols. 47, m. doi‘des, 
10. a, 
Weig. obs. 3. 2. a. 
Parasitical, sitting, roundish, scattered, at first tawny, soft, 
succulent, when more advanced the bark falling, they become 
brown and indurated, at length opening, appearing quite full of 
a black compact powder, Linn. Syst. pl. iv. 626.—Some glo- 
bular, others oblong, somewhat flatted, solitary, Linn. Syst. 
mat, III, 234. : 7 
Lycoperdon varielosum. On the decayed bark of trees. and — 
on sticks, Jan.— Dec. 
Spx. (Botr.) Leathery, branched, tawny, spreading ; riccioi‘dea, 
segments cloven. wage Re igen 
z Bolt, 182. Sf 
From 1 to 2 inches diameter ; tough, hard, leathery neee 
tawny, tending to orange ‘colour. te within. Surface 
roughish folate prominences of the tubercles underneath. 
LTON.. 
- On branches of sallow and hazel, when so decayed as to 
crush between the fingers. _ , 
Sex. Crust olive green, inveloping the capsules which aremammo’ ta. 
solitary, semi-globular, black. : 
Hoffm. crypts I, 34 2=Fli dan. 107 9-Mich, 55, ordi 2+ 1+ 
ou. IV, Cc 
