388 
depres’sa. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Spheeria, (2) Siemless. 
Tubercles very small, perfectly convex, partly imbedded in 
the crust, not closely crowded together. Ground or crust thin, 
uniform, smooth but not polished, nearly black. Me? 
On the bark of oak trees in the pleasure grounds at Enville, 
Staffordshire. i a July. 
Spu. Stemless, incorporated, black, shining. Botr. 
Hoffm. crypt. 1. 4. 1-Bull, 432. 2-Bolt. 122. 1—Dill. 18.7~ 
Weig. obs. 3. S—Hall, enum. 2. 9, at p. 91, hist. 47-95 
at iii, p. 88. 
Intensely black, shining, hard, granulated, white within. 
Sph. disciformis. Horrm, and his Sph. bullata i. 2. 1, is pos- 
~sibly the same. 
On the outer rind of decaying branches of trees. Bont. 
Licgurr. 1069. Botr. 
aggreca’ta. SPH. (Retn.). Black, clustered, spherical, mouth entire. 
gulca’ta, 
byssa ‘cea. 
<< Hoffm, erypt. ii. 3. 3-Bolt. 122. 2-Lightf, 31, lowermost 
a Figure, at p. 962-Batsch 180, 
Small, black, about the size of and resembling the head of 
a black hair pin. Ret. supp/.i. 35. Very much resembling 
fine gunpowder, but white within. Bott. Perfectly globular, 
the size of small pinsheads ; grows in thick. clusters ; princi- 
pally on decayed stumps of trees. Mr. Woopwarp. 
__ Sph. Bombardica. Bout.—Lycoperdon nigrum, Licutr.— 
Lyc. aggregatum. Hevs.—Trunks of rotten trees and rotten 
wood ; mostly on such as have been sawn off: but sometimes, 
though less luxuriantly, under the loosened outer bark. 
Oct.—Sept. 
. Spx. Stemless, incorporated, oblong, furrowed. Bott. 
Bolt. 124—Mich. 54. ord. 37. 2—Hoffm. 3. 20 ee 
About the size of a flea, blackish, oblong, with adeep fur- 
row extending from end to end. Botton, 
Lichen scriptus. @ pulicaris. Licurr. 801. On decayed 
branches of ash trees. Botr.—[Norfolk and Suffolk. Mr. 
Woopwarp. |— Mr. Griffith has shewn that this is not a Sph- 
_ Hay but the old state of the Lichen tricolor, See page 23. 
-Spx. Simple, solitary, very small, black : crust snowy 
white, powdery. Weic. Dicks. 
= a Weig. obs. Qe oO. 
~ Crust white, powdery, spreading. Wetc. 43. < 
On the bark of oak seks Slate trusda oF ash about 
Brown. | 
_ Jan.—March. 
. 
_ Craig Lochart, Collington, and Woodhall in Scotland. Mr. 
