ACOTVLEDONS. FUNGI. Spkccritt. 5 



HAD. On rotten wood, frequent, Sept., Hopk. 



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

 same colour within, sphaerules umbilicated scarcely prominent. 



- Pers. p. 12. Sphcsria tuber culosa, Lightf. p. 1113. Sous. 



/.374./.S. 

 HAB. On decayed wood, autumn, not uncommon, Lightf. } Hoplc. 



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. 



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

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

 prominent, papiUiform, or spinulose. 



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

 spheerules scattered punctifbrm black. Pers. p. 15. Peziza 

 pwictata, Ligktf. p. 1050. Sph&ria pjmctata, 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. .338. 



HAB. On trunks of trees about Kinross. Sept. Mr. Greville. 



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

 the sphaerules 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 sphierulea 

 immersed nearly plane. Pers. p. 21. Hypoxylon opcrcula- 

 tum, Bull. Champ, t. 478. /'. 2. 



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

 conical. S. decor licans, Moug. et Ncstl. No. 373. 



HAB. a. On dead trunks of cherry-trees about Edinb. Sept. Mr. 

 Greville. {3. On the barkless steins of Corylus avellana, about 

 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, Soiu. I. 216. 



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



Hopk. 

 Larger than the last, black, with prominent orifices. White within. 



