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•differentia fpecifica meliori forte modo fic effe poteft: 
Sphaeria fetacea: ramoliffima: ramis fetaceis fphaerulas 
nudas (fparfas) proferentibus. 
Io. Sphaeria clavata, ftipes indivifus, cylindricus ob- 
tufus, folitarius. Scopoli Pl. fu b ter. Tab. XP^lI.f. i. 
in Dijf. ad Hijl. natur, pert. Pars i. p. ioo. 
(Sph. fubterranea: pendula? incraffata, rugofa rubra.) 
Subftantia lignofa, rugofa, rubra, pun&ata; punftis 
rotundatis & angulatis. Punfta haec Microfcopio fub- 
jefta, funt foveolae nigro polline plenae, vel Fungilli 
petiolati nigri. Scopoli 1 . c. 
17. Sphaeria riccioidea, coriacea ramofa fulva, in ramos 
fubdivifos expanfa. Bolt. Fungujf. Tab. 182, 
(Sph. riccioidea: ramofa deprefla fulva: ramis fubdi- 
vifis centrifugis.) An ad hanc Spbaru familiam pertinet? 
From a centre it shoots out into a circular figure 
numerous fimple bifid, or trifid branches of a hard and 
leathery and white fubffance. „ 
33 The Seed-vefiels are fmall, not vifible to the na- 
ked eye — and make prominent tubercles on its fur- 
face. ,3 
,3 The piant adheres firmely to the wood by the 
whole breadth of its unteriide. On opening the feeds 
veffels of young plants, I found them full of a white 
gelly; thofe of theold contained brown globular feeds, 
or where empty. On the branches of fallow and Hasle 
trees. „ Bolton 1 . c. 
