APPENDIX. 1113 



of thele bulbs, with their necks and heads, 

 arife out of the furface of the leaves near the 

 extremities of the fegments. 



Befides thefe, there are other fruflifications, fup- 

 pofed by Dillenius to ht female^ which refemble 

 green Ihining grains or globules, fcattered with- 

 out order upon the furface and edges of the 

 leaves, and which he imagines to be the rudi- 

 ments of young plants. 



There are alio further to be feen dark-green or 

 black fpecks, immers'd in the fubftance of the 

 leaves, and dilpofed three or four in a row 

 near their margins. Thefe feem to be what 

 Linnaus fuppofes the female fruftifications. 



The firft-m.entioncd bulbs, with their necks and 

 granulated heads, are very quick in their rife 

 and decay, but a continued fucceflion of them 

 is vifible from O£fober till Chrijlmas^ about 

 which time the plant dies away, and appears 

 not again till July or Augiijt following. 



CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



SPH^RIA Ralkr. hijl. IIL p. 120. 

 Fruolus IphiErici, pulvere carbonario pleni, ple- 

 rumque fub cortice latentes. 

 >uherculofa. SPHi^^RIA atra convexa, carne nigra. Haller. 

 kiji. IIL p. 111. n, 2187. an LYCOPERDON 



'variolofum ? 



