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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Sph^ria. 
(Sph. multicap'sula. Flatfish or conical, a somewhat spreading mass, 
deep brown, somewhat rugged externally, when cut laterally very 
black, and the spherules appear crowded in two or three irregular 
tiers, above each other. 
Sowerhy 436— Purt. 8. 
Many-fruited Spha:ria Discovered by Mr. Purton on decayed wood in 
autumn. E.) 
Sph. acu'ta. Black, conical, pointed, solitary, very minute. 
Hoffm. Crypt. 1. 5. 2 —(Sowerhy 119. E.) 
In damp shady places on small twigs stripped of their bark, we find black 
dots, the size of a poppy seed, rough to the touch but without any crust. 
These when magnified appear shining and conical, with an extremely fine 
perforation at the end, from whence issues in warm and moist weather a 
viscid glaucous fluid. Hoffman. 
(Pointed Sphasria. E.) Mr. Relhan found it on the decayed stems of 
nettles. (Mr. Brown has also observed it about Edinburgh on the 
decayed stems of nettles, and not on any other plant. E.) Feb.—Apr. 
Sph. cortica'lis. 
globular. 
Cup-shaped, black: 
Bull. 492. 2. 
capsules numerous, shining. 
Fixed so firm to the bark on which it grows, as scarcely to be separable. 
(Bark Sphasria. Sph. coriicalis. Relh. Purt. Sph. cupularis. Pers. Vario - 
laria sphcerosperma. Bull. E.) On the bark of elm trees. Relhan. 
Oct. 
Sph. corona^ta. Black, egg-oblong, clustered ; the points of the cap¬ 
sules perforating the bark in pencil-like bundles. 
Hoffm. Crypt. 1. 5. 4 and 5 
Oblong, small, black, shining, imbedded in the bark on which they grow. 
Capsules placed in a circle. Crowned by the styles projecting through 
the outer coat of the bark. These styles are thickest near the end and 
perforated. Hoffm. * 
(Coronet Spha;ria. E.) Found by Mr. Relhan on decayed branches of 
trees. Sept.—Oct. 
Sph. ni'gra. Shining black, globules on an uniform brown black 
ground. 
Tubercles very small, perfectly convex, partly imbedded in the crust, not 
closely crowded together. Ground or crust thin, uniform, smooth but not 
polished, nearly black. 
(This plant does not exactly agree either with Sph. nigra of Purton and 
Sowerby, or Sph. patella of Persoon and Greville : yet it differs so little 
from one or other, as also from Sph. coriicalis of Withering and Bulliard, 
that we are induced to imagine, in a more advanced state, it may be 
assimilated. Perhaps the greatest obstacle is the ground or crust. 
Jet Sphaeria. E.) On the bark of oak trees in the pleasure grounds at 
Enville, Staffordshire. July. 
Sph. depres'sa. Stemless, incorporated, black, shining. Bolt. 
