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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Sphmia. 
Sowerhy 429— Purt. 29— FI. Dan. 713— Mich. 60. 3. 
Slightly furrowed, brown changing to blade, brittle ; white within, attached 
firmly to the wood. Purt. 
Subcortical Sphaeria. Clavaria hypoxylon. var. 2. With, to Ed. 7. Rhi- 
zomorpha suhcorticalis . Pers. Purt. R. imperialis. Sowerby. Between 
two thick oak planks which covered a well. Woodward. Extending 
between two and three feet in length between the bark and the wood of 
a large elm, which had been shivered by lightning, in Edgbaston park 
Dr. Waller suggests that Sph. hypoxylon , and Sph. digitata, are but one and 
the same species; the former exhibiting the more common appearance of 
the male plant, the latter of the female. E.) 
(2) Stemless. 
Sph. tomento'sa. Simple, clustered, snow-white, downy. Relh. 1107- 
Stemless, incorporated, somewhat downy. Bolt. 
Roll. 125— Mich. 54. ord. 37. 5. 
Crust none. Spherules minute, globular, covered with a snowy down, some¬ 
times confluent, marked with a few black minute dots ; on losing their 
down turning black, and becoming indurated and permanent. Flesh 
black. Relh. Suppl. ii. 31.—Fixed to the inner bark of dead branches, 
forcing its way through the outer bark. Each cluster about the size of a 
large mustard seed. Bolt. (When young, soft, and resembling a Mucor. 
Downy Sphaeria. E.) S. obducta. Bolt. Decayed wood in Madingley 
plantations. Relh. On fallen decaying branches of trees. Bolt. 
Aug. Sept. Relh. Feb. Bolt. 
Sph. niv'ea. Compound: very white, in clusters, tubercled. 
(,Sowerhy 219. E.)— Hoffm. Crypt. 1. 6. 3. 
Tubercles small, ventricose, lopped and perforated at the top; white, but 
the perforation black. When the outer coat is separated, they appear 
entirely black. Hoffman. 
(Snow-white Sphaeria. Sph. nivea. Sowerby. Hoffm. Pers. Purt. E.) 
On the bark of trees in a wood near Gamlingay. Mr. Relhan. June. July. 
Sph. vib/idis. Simple, globular, green: bark granulated: granules 
brown. Bolt. 
Bolt. 121. 2. 
About the size of a white mustard seed, green, when dry pale brown. 
Bolton. 
(Green Sphaeria. E.) On small sticks and stems of plants when in decay. 
Spi-i. sanguin'ea. Simple, egg-shaped, blood-coloured, perforated at 
the end. Bolt. 
Bolt. 121. 1— Bull. 487. 3 —{Sowerhy 254. E.) 
Thickest at bottom, the size of a poppy seed, in clusters, opening at the 
top, blood red, shining, white within. Bolton. 
