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 human faces on the head. It is at first roundish; in ripening the head bursts through the two coats or wrappers; the inner wrapper, detaching itself from the outer, becomes inverted, connected only by the edges; the coats most constantly split into four parts. See Mr. Woodward's excellent account of most of the species in ''Linn. Trans.'' vol. ii. p. 32. TAB. CXCIX.

this also in Stone-Park, Sussex, growing on sticks, bursting its way through the bark. The root is tuberous, and held to the wood by threads a little above the base, somewhat knobby where the plant ascends, which is a little tubular and pointed. TAB. CC. Bull. t. 195. fig. I. A.B.

Dill. Musc. 67. t. 13. fig. II. A.B.

me by Mr. Jonathan Peckover, who found it growing on an old sack of saw-dust in his wine-cellar at Wisbeach. Even this plant, so finely fibrous, has white farinaceous ends, analogous to pollen or fructifying dust; also capsules below. Thus it answers to the class Monœcia of Linnæus—a circumstance which seems proper to the Sphærias. My friend William Skrimshire Esq. jun. of Wisbeach first observed the farinaceous powder on this plant.