lo/o CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGt 



Little black parafitic Piiff-ball, Anglis. 



Upon rotten {lumps of trees, in woods and fliady 

 places. XI. — V. 



Thefe are of the fize of fmall pins heads, perfeftly 

 fphxrical and feflile, of a coal-black color, 

 growing in great nun'ibers together, contiguous 

 to and often in layers upon one another. 



Each has a coat confiding of two rinds, including 

 in the centre a white pulpy liquor-, but this 

 liquor was not difcoverable in every individual, 

 for in many that were not open we difcern'd 

 neither pulp nor powder, but only a cavity, in 

 which, by the aid of a microfcope, we per- 

 ceived a few hairs crolTing one another, fo as to 

 form Irregular net- work. How or whether the 

 pulp dries away, or into what it is converted' 

 we confefs ourlelves ic;norant. 



The orifice of fuch fphctrules as v/ere open was 

 at their top, of a circular figure, the margin 

 intire. 



We had ftrong fufpicions that thefe fphasrules 

 might be of animal nature, but from what 

 obfervations and experiments we have hitherto 

 made, we are induced to think them rather of 

 the vegetable kind. 



They are nearly related to the Spharia of Haller. 

 Hiji. Helvet. n. 2180. Michel, gen. tab. 54. 

 ord. -^y. fig. 4. — And alfo Mailer's Helvet. hiJi- 

 71. 21S1. Michel, tab. ^^. Ord. 2. fig. i. 



MUCOR. 



