
          (241.)

Sphaeria maxima Hist. 181

Greatest Sphaeria.

The Sphaeria maxima grows on old
stumps and roots when quite rotten and
in a dry situation, we often meet with it
flat and depressed. The figure, was taken from
a very fine and perfect one which grew
on the perishing stump of an Ash Tree
in Bradley Wood near Elland, amongst
many larger, but none were so well formed
or so prominent. as that I pitched upon
to draw, it is the finest specimen I ever
saw.
        