Pl. ceil.aph. 6. SARCOTHALAME. 148. Spher, 527 
5. Spheria byssoidea. Byssus spheria. 
Thece rather large, globular, nippled, girt with a thick 
brown down. 
Sphzxria byssoidea fusca, Tode Meckl. 2, 10. 
On branches of trees. 
6. Spheria ovina. Egglhke spheria. 
Thece scattered, globular, egelike, covered with a com- 
pact white wooliness; mouths nipplelike, blackish. 
Spheria mucida 6, Tode Meckl. 2, 16. 
Spheria ovina, Perscon Syn. 11. 
Spheeria lichenoides, Sowerby Fungi, 373, 12? 
On the trunks of trees. 
7. Spheria hirsuta. Shaggy spheria. 
Thece rather crowded, brittle, black, ovate, with scat- 
tered bristle; mouths blunt, slightly angular. 
Spheria hirsuta, Persoon Syn. 73. 
Spheria terrestris, Sowerby Fungi, 373, 7. 
On rotten trunks of trees, and the ground. 
8. Spheria lombardica. Explosive spheria. 
Thece nearly cylindrical, brownish-black, small, crowd- 
ed, upright; mouths very short, nipplelike. 
Spheria Bombarda, Persoon Syn. 75. 
Nemaspora glabra, Willd. Berl. 1207. 
On the trunks of trees. 
9. Spheria equina. Hlorsedung spheria. 
Thece nearly crustlike, partly immersed; mouths long, 
rather oblique. 
Spheria fimeti, Perseon Syn. 64. 
On cow or horse dung. 
10. Spheria stercoraria. Dung spheria. 
Thece scattered, orbiculate, convex; mouths nipplelike, 
very short. 
Spheria stercoria, Sowerby Fungi, 357, |. 
On dung. 
11. Spheria solitaria. Solitary spheria. 
Thece scattered, nearly globular; mouths acute, nipple- 
like; on the ground. 
Spheria solitaria, Sowerby Fungi, 357, 2. 
On the ground. 
