Pl.cell.aph. 6. SARCOTHALAMEiE. 139. Hypox. 51S 
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0. spathulaturru Thallus slightly compressed, reverse- 
conical ; stipes very short. 
y. mammillanum. Club bellied, ending in a long barren 
point. 
5. Hypoxylon digitatum . Fingered hypoxyloru 
Thallus leatherlike, corky, black; inside white; stipes 
connate at bottom ; tip white, powdery, pointed, naked. 
Clavaria digitata, Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 15, 1010. 
Sphaeria digitata, Persoon Syn. 7. 
On rotten wood. 
VI. 140. PERIPHEROSTOMA. Peripherostome . 
Thallus leatherlike, corky, hemispherical, sessile, de- 
pressed ; thecce in the circumference of the thallus. 
a. Thallus naked, free, 
1. Periph. concentricum. Concentric peripherostome, 
Thallus nearly globose, bald, uneven ; thecce immersed, 
in concentric striae. 
Sphaeria concentrica, Bolton Fungi , 180. 
Sphaeria fraxinea, Sowerby Fungi , 160. 
On ash and hornbeam trees. 
Thallus 2 or 3 inches in diameter. 
0. multicap sulare. Thallus small. 
Sphaeria multicapsula, Sowerby Fungi , 436. 
2. Periph. fragiformis. Strawberry peripherostome . 
Thallus nearly globular, black ; surface granulated \ 
thecce rather prominent, reddish-brown. 
Lycoperdon variolosuin, Lin. Syst. Veg.ed. 15,2, 1019. 
Sphagna fragiformis, Persoon Syn. 9. 
On birch-trees. 
S. Peripherostoma fuscum . Brown peripherostome . 
Thallus brown, hemispherical, flattened, confluent; thecce 
swollen, umbilicated, tubercular. 
Sphaeria confluens, JVilld. Berol. 416. 
Sphaeria fragiformis, Hoffm. Crypt. 1,20. 
Sphaeria tuberculosa, Bolton Fungi , 123 ; Sowerby Fungi , 374. 
Sphaeria aciniformis, Sowerby Fungi , 273 ? 
Sphaeria fusea, Persoon Syn. 12. 
On the dried branches of hawthorn or of nut-trees.. 
Thallus conical, scattered, dark opake dull brown ; thecas: 
sometimes even, not swollen. 
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