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THIS little Sphæria grows on the fructification and crust of Lichen vernalis. It was sent by the Rev. Mr. Harriman from Durham.

WAS found by the Rev. W. Kirby between the plarter walls of his house, while repairing. It grows in little bundles, each tubercled and covered with fine hairs. The outside is blackish, the inside sometimes has a border of white.

FOUND on rotting baskets of wicker, and on old hoops, at Mead Place. At first the Fungi seem only little tufts of fine black hairs; but somemore advanced contain a little black sphærule: the hairs are feathered, or furnished with little hairs upon them.

FOUND on bits of rotting wood at Mead Place in the coal cellar, in damp weather. It resembles a httle black hair thickening upwards. TAB. CCCLXXXVII.

it necessary to figure this, and another or two of the imperfect Fungi, that they might be the better understood when found.

Most Fungi, apparently when seedlings, produce small cottony fibres, and some assume a more determinate form, without coming to their full growth or figure. If represented, and for the present named, in such a state, they can be hereafter traced to their proper genera, when they happen to unfold their frutification. This figure is not uncommon, and on examination seems composed of small white fibres, branching, and spreading flat on bits of stick in a stellated manner.