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C'RYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Sphoeria. 
(Mr. Purton, with other Fungqlogists, having frequently observed this plant 
to be surrounded by., and at length covered with Sphoeria fragiformis, is 
of opinion that Sphoeria tremelloides is u merely the ground or matrix in 
or upon which the spherules of S. fragiformis are formed.” We doubt 
the accuracy of this hypothesis; the plants seem to us more distinct than 
several others of this intricate and minute tribe : and indeed, should the 
two species ever be more decidedly identified, we would presume to 
reverse the proposition. 
Red Sphaeria. Tremella purpurea. Linn. Huds. Lightf. Sph. miniafa. 
Bolt. Tubercularia vulgaris. Pers. Hook. Clavaria coccinea. Sowerby. 
Purt. E.) On pieces of half decayed sticks, plentiful. 
Autumn, Winter, and Spring. 
Sph. lycoperdoPdes. (Globose, purplish-red, shining black within ; 
spherules situated in the circumference, with more or less pro¬ 
minent orifices. Grev. 
Grev . Scot. Crypt. 136— Sowerby 271. E.) 
Parasitical, sessile, roundish, scattered, at first tawny, soft, succulent, when 
more advanced the bark falling, they become brown and indurated, at 
length opening, appearing quite full of a black compact powder, Linn. 
Syst. PI. iv. 626 . (From the size of a pea to that of a small hazel nut: 
surface smooth, sometimes tuberculated. Grev. 
Black Sphoeria. Lycoperdon variolosum. Stromatosphoeria fragiformis. 
var. loevis. Grev. Sphoeria fragiformis. Pers. Hook. On the decayed 
bark of trees, and on sticks. E.) t Jan.—Dec. 
Sph. riccioPdea. (Bolt.) Leathery, branched, tawny, spreading; 
segments cloven. 
Bolt. 182. * 
From one to two inches diameter; tough, hard, leathery, deep tawny, 
tending to orange colour. White within. Surface roughish from the 
prominences of the tubercles underneath. Bolton. 
(Cloven Spiiaeria. E.) On branches of sallow and hazel, when so decayed 
as to crush between the fingers. 
Sph. mammo'sa. Crust olive green, inveloping the capsules which are 
solitary, semi-globular, with a small black conical point. 
{Purt. 22 — Hojfm. Crypt. 1. 3. 2. E.)— FI. Dan. 1079— Mich. 65. ord. 2. 1. 
Though growing many together, they are never united. Mr. Woodward. 
(Mr. Purton, though rarely, has observed three or four confluent. E.) 
Surface rough with short upright hairs. When very old the capsule ap¬ 
pears to be formed of two coats, as was first observed by Mr. Brown. 
(Breast-shaped Spi-iaeria. Sph. mammas a. Relh. Ed. alt. Dicks. Purt. 
Sph. byssiseda. Pers. Sph. mammiformis. Relh. n. 987. Koffim. On decayed 
wood, and the roots of trees. Sept. 
Sph. RUGcfsA. Stemless, clustered, globular, ash-coloured, wrinkled, 
large. Bolt. 
Bolt. 123. 2. 
From a quarter to half an inch diameter, rough, hard and dry like wood. 
Bolton. Not Sph. rugosa of Weigel. 
(Rough Sphaeria. Southowram near Halifax, on the bark of dead and 
fallen elm branches. Oct.—Dec. 
