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 TAB. CCXCIV. common on rotten sticks, &c. in autumn, or damp weather. It is seldom without a foot-stalk, though apparently sessile; as may be easily perceived by a perpendicular section. This we think will prove it is not a Tremella; and we presume our great master Linnæus must have examined some young Tremella ( perhaps mesenterica) which he called T. purpurea, which in a poor state often resembles this plant on old pales, and seems to have been hitherto confounded with it. We presume the Tremella purpurea of Hudson and Sphæria tremelloides of Withering to be that here exhibited. TAB. CCXCV. most common plant on old walls, at least near London, is readily observed among the mortar from its blackish appearance. It often assumes the look of a Peziza, being somewhat cup-formed in its latter state.