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 TAB. CCXVI. With. v. 4. p. 394.

Bull. tab. 432. fig. 2.

uncommon on bits of rotten sticks, and somewhat resembling Sphæria decorticata, t. 137, in a young state; but it differs in not spreading so much, being thicker and more elevated, with more crowded or double rows of sphærulæ, and the inner substance is whiter. This fungus bursts the cuticle of the branches, which soon curls back. TAB. CCXVII.

seems to have escaped notice. It is found on sticks destitute of bark, staining a portion of many feet nearly all over, and seemingly decomposing the outer substance into a charcoal, or at least a charred appearance, the sphærulæ lying underneath more in the substance of the stick. TAB. CCXVIII.

production. I have had it growing on decaying peach and apricot grafts at Lambeth these two years. The sphærule is held to the orbit, or black ring, surrounding it, by fine whitish cottony threads. This ring is found by a perpendicular section to be the edge of a sort of salver including the sphærule, from which sometimes exudes a gummy tendril through the cuticle or outer bark. The face is seen distinctly on the next coat, and the substance is imbedded in the under brownish bark.