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FOUND on trees late in the autumn, not very common, and may possibly be the remains of Auricularia reflexa. The difference is, that the upper as well as under side is smooth. The whole is mostly of one colour, of a purplish brown.

NOT uncommon on rotting fallen branches very late in the autumn, on their under side, it spreads very much, and has mostly a brownish margin. The middle generally is full of irregular protuberances, of a greyish colour, and sometimes very minutely feattered with small whitish spots. TAB. CCCLXXXIX.

Very small, with a white cottony outside; smoothish and whitish within; found on rotten sticks.

THIS was sent me by the Rev. Mr. Harriman. It is distinct from any thing I had before seen. It consists of simple, roundish, almost globular cups, seemingly of a leathery texture when dry, but tender when fresh. They appear nearly smooth on both sides, and are generally sunk in little holes in the earth, their upper part being about level with its surface.

Ascobolus surfuraceus Persoon. Myco. t. 4. f. 3. a. 3—6.

THIS is not often found with the seed-vessels so distinct, which are of the peculiar structure here delineated, having eight feeds: these are projected from them to some distance, occasioned seemingly by their progressive ripening; for the latter ones crowd and swell, squeezing out the riper ones as they advance under them. The variations of weather and construction