CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Spmria. 
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(Blood-coloured Sphasria. Sph. sanguined. Sowerby. Bolt. Pers. Purt. 
E.) Hypoxylum phceniceum. Bull. 171. On decayed wood beside the 
spring- of Elm Cragg Well, at Bell Bank, near Bingley, Yorkshire. (Oc¬ 
casionally parasitic to its own congener, Sph. decorticans. Purt. E.) 
June. 
Sph. Mohtr. Single, clustered, scarlet, very small. Wieg. Obs. 45. 
(, Sowerby 255. E.)— Bolt. 120.1— Weig. Ohs. 2. 11. 
Crust none at all. Spherules in heaps, but not confluent, globular, very 
small, bright scarlet. Dicks. Narrowest at the base, orange colour when 
young; bright scarlet when full grown; black in decay. Bolton. (This 
and the preceding species nearly resemble each other, but Mr. Purton 
observes that Sph. sanguined is broad at the base, gradually diminishing 
to a conical point. Sph. mori , on the contrary, has a narrow base, with 
a broadish turban top. E.) 
(Mulberry Sph^eria. Sph. mori. Sowerby. Bolt. Dicks. Purt. Sph. coc - 
cinea. Pers. Hook. E.) On the decayed bark of trees. 
Sph. grega'ria. Simple, in irregular clusters, of a red lead colour s 
crust whitish, tender. Wieg. Obs. 43. 
E. Bot. 2151— Wieg. Ohs. 2.10. a. 
Crust thin, smooth, whitish. Spherules very minute, irregularly crowded, 
often in a stellated form, closely compacted, red. Dicks. 
(Clustered Spha:ria. Spiloma tumidulum. E. Bot. Purt. E.) On the 
bark of trees, particularly the cherry. Feb.—April. 
Sph. fragifop/mis. (Dull red, clustered, resembling a strawberry, 
granulated, becoming dingy and pale with age. 
Grev. Scot. Crypt. 136— Sowerhy 256. 
Spherules with an indistinctly prominent orifice, which at length becomes 
depressed and slightly collapsed. Spherules seated on a red receptacle 
resembling a Tubercularia. Grev. 
Strawberry Sphjeria. Sph. fragiformis. Sowerby. Purt. Sph. deco - 
lorans. Pers. Hook. Cucurbitaria cinnaharina. Grev. Crypt. E.) On 
decayed wood, and dead sticks. Sept. 
Sph. tremelloPdes. Compound, solitary, sometimes on astern: glo¬ 
bular, purple, somewhat jelly-like. Wieg. Obs. 45. 
Bull. 284—( Sowerhy 294. E.)— Weig. Ohs. 3. 1— Bolt. 127. 1—( Hoffm . 
Crypt, i. 6. 2. E.)— Dill. 18. 6— Mich. 95. 3— Gled. 6. Mucor.f. 8. a. 
This plant is not absolutely without a stem, but the stem is very short and 
nearly as thick at the top, entering into the substance of the bark on 
which it grows. In some specimens the top part is of a full vermilion, 
and the lower part of a yellowish colour. In other specimens this order 
of colour is reversed. It is common in this latter variety to find young 
shoots growing up close to the stems of the older plants, the heads of 
which have the full vermilion colour. (It varies from the size of a pin’s 
head to that of a hemp-seed. Bolton’s figure represents it decidedly a 
Sphseria, but the other figures do not. Hoffman says, he never observed 
the spherules or capsules which constitute a Sphaeria; neither has 
Purton. Bolton sometimes found them. E-) 
