TAB. CCCLXXIII.
Fig. I. SPHÆRIA Vaccinii.
Somewhat egg-shaped, standing with the point upwards; it grows more or less crowded, surrounding the stalk of Vaccinium Vitis-idæa.
Fig. 2. S. rubifromis.
ROUND, mostly crowded, and finely tuberculated.
Fig. 3. S. collapsa. Variolaria corrugata. Bull. 432. 4. Hysterium nigrum. Tode Fung. Meckl. 8. 64.
FROM its affinity to S. fulcata, we judge this also a Sphæria, it being apparently the same thing unrolled. It is sometimes larger and a little different in shape, generally situated under the cuticle of the sticks it grows on, and dries up irregularly.
Fig. 4. S. circumvaliata.
FOUND on an oak leaf. The sphærule is formed in the substance of the leaf. On the upper side appear 1, 2, 3, or more black convex spots, surrounded with a black margin at a little distance, penetrating the leaf perpendicularly.
Fig. 5. S. curvirosta.
THIS is very minute. Its sphærulæ are imbedded in the plant on which they grow. 1 he mouth is in length nearly twice the diameter of the sphærule, standing obliquely.
Fig. 6. S. Gnomon. Tode Fung. Meckl. t. 16. f. 125.
THIS Sphæria is very small, but on examining it with a magnifier it may be readily understood.
Fig. 7. S. terrestris.
FOUND on the bare earth (an unufual circumstance with Sphariæ) in Kensington Gardens. It is something like S. hispida of Tode Fung. Meckl. t. 10. fig. 84. but the hairs are chiefly at the bottom.
Fig. 8. S. subscreta.
THIS resides under the cuticle, on rotting sticks of poplar. The bark is generally in that case decomposed, and very fibrous. The Fungus being inserted in the interstices of those fibres. It is nearly round, but indented towards the top, which gives it a flattish appearance. The mouth protuberates a little, and has a single aperture, although the lip, if I may so call it, is divided into 4 parts. It occasionally perforates the cuticle.
