798 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 



another. Their furface is of a pale grcert glofTy 



'"■' "■ colour, curioufly teflelated with rhomboidal and 



'■ "v '■ hexagonal tubercles, each having a white vcficle, 



or wart, in the centre, with a pundurc on its 



head, much more diftinifl and vifible than in 



the firft fpecies. The under fide is green, fur- 



t ' ■ nillied with numerous downy radicles. 



' -'. The male fruftification arifes from the nerve out 



. . s . of the difc of the leaf, having a fufcous cavity 



■ K 'r. !.- or vagina at the bafe. 1 he pedicle is fmooth, 



;.::•;' ' white, fucculent, pellucid, and, when full grown 



three inches high. The pileus, or head, is co- 



V 1 .'■ nical, refembling one of the leaft agarics. It 



is at firft of a pale green, afterwards yellow, and 



, . laftly, brown, containing generally five, but 



; fomctimes fix or eight cells, open at the bafe, 



r in each of which cells is a pendulous, conical, 



floret, having an anihcray which burfts with five 



fegments at the rim, and cafts out a dark, fuf^ 



cous powder, according to MicbeU, Hailer^ and 



others ; bv;t DilUnius lays, he never could dif- 



cover any thing more in the cells than an oval, 



comprefs'd grain, obfcured at one end with a footy 



powder. He could dilcern no pendulous floret, 



or fegments to the cmthera. The pileus appears 



firft in the Autumn, and continues fefllJe all the 



"Winter, but begins to be elevated on a pedicle 



in March or April. 



The female fruftifications appear upon the difc of 

 diftinft plants of the fame ipccies, in the form 

 of fcflllc hcmifphaerical fpongy warts, flat at 



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