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 TAB. CCCLIII.

Persoon Comment, de Fung, clavæf. t. 3. fig. 4.

near Lacham house, Devon, the feat of my good friend Colonel Montague, by Mr. Gibbs, growing on dead stalks. It is like C. ophioglossoides in miniature, but is smoother and of a more uniform colour all over. TAB. CCCLIV.

Bolt. 130.

only seen one specimen of this fungus, for which I am obliged to the Rev. Mr. Francis, whose lady found it at Holt in Norfolk. Being gathered too hastily, so as to be broken from the root, it was consequently imperfect; and insects having made it more so in my herbarium, I am unwilling not to figure it while there are some remains to identify so rare a species, which with the help of Mr. Bolton's figures I am enabled to do. The base is like a Lycoperdon; the stipes fistular, yellowish and smooth; the head oval or egg-shaped, brown, and so smooth on the outside that the mouths of the imbedded sphærulae are scarcely perceptible. TAB. CCCLV.

Bull.

frequent on dead birch-branches. It first bursts from between the cuticle and cortex in a light spongy-looking knob, soon enlarging to half an inch or more in diameter, and a quarter thick, having sphærulæ imbedded in the surface, whose mouths touch the outside. In this state the whole is black, and the outside some what crustaceous.