386 
max’ima, 
fraxin’ea. 
“large quantity of black powder. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Spheria, (2) Stemless. 
Though growing many together, they are never united. Mr. 
Woopwarp. Surface rough with short upright hairs. . When 
very old,the capsule appears to be formed of two coats, as was 
first observed by Mr. Bowe: 
S. mammiformis, Relh. n. 987. On rotten wood, and the 
roots of trees. suites aoe Sept. 
Spu. Stemless, clustered, globular , ash-eoloured, wrink~ 
~ led, large, Bor. 
no a. Tyree 
From to 2 inch diameter, rough, hard and dry like wood. 
Botton. Not Sph. rugosa of Weice.. 
Southowram near Halifax, on the bark of the dead and fallen 
elm branches. 
Spu. Large, thick, black, pustular. ral ess is 
Bull. 487. 1=Hoffm. crypt. 1. 1,2—Bolt. 181—Mich. 54. ord. 
A Fe ; 
Grey black, inflated, friable ; surface uneven ; cells distinct; 
from 3 to 2 of an inch diameter, But. or more. 
On.rotten wood, and decayed roots on the ground, . 
Spx. Black; roundish, convex, dotted. HALL, 2. 2192. 
Bolt. 180-Schef. 329. 
Convex, smooth without ; substance within consisting of a 
number of concentric layers composed of minute tubes or threads 
pointing from the centre. Ray. Very irregular in shape, from 
-#to more than 1 inchin diameter. Pustzles ati visible to 
the naked eye, Ratu. suppl. i. 34. Sometimes from 2 to 4 
inches diameter; opening at the top when ripe and shedding a 
te is eaten by a maggot, 
which also can eat through a deal board, as happened to the 
bottom and sides of a drawer in which I had kept some of these 
plants. This differs from the Sph. maxima in being more woody 
tuberculo” Spr. 
and shewing concentri¢ circles when cut. It is generally more _ 
completely sessile than it is represented in the figures ; and in its 
younger state is of a dirty chesnut colour. 
_. Lycoperdon fraxineum,.Huds.—Sph. eoncentrica. Bolt. On 
ash trees when rotten or in a decaying state, and observed on — 
no other tree. Ray. [In large quantity on an old ash by the 
= road ree Thornbury and Alveston, nage ; 
and on an ash overhanging the’ road leading ‘up:the first hill be- 
twixt Queen’s-ferry and Edinburgh.] or eA » May. 
(Lacure.) Black, conyex; flesh black. Hat. 7. 
2187: stemless, incorporated, tubercled, brown + 
spherules of the same colour, Bour, 
