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FORMS a black oblong ring, sfall, and penetrating, or fixed to the depth of the bark (if I may so call it) of a piece of decaying reed. The top is lightish in the middle; the inside is quite white.

BLACK, nearly conical, very minute, brittle, and almost solid.

ON the stalk of woodbine; black; round or oval, with a little nipple, inserted into the bark.

SHAPED like a crown or cap; indented towards the middle with a little central roundish protuberance; the inside grayish.

FOUND by the Rev. William Kirby on pea-stalks; round within the bark, or protruding outwards with a conical point or mouth, giving it the form of an egg with the point upwards. It covers the stalk, &c. almost all over in little spots. TAB. CCCXCIV. {{larger|{{Smallcaps|Sunk}} about half-way in the bark of nettle-stalks. The upper part is elevated, or convex, with the mouth in the centre; black, encircled with a lightish colour, softening into a brown. This was sent me from Barham, Suffolk, by the Rev. William Kirby.

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CLUSTERED in concave parts on the root of the bean; small, black, nearly round, the mouth forming a fort of blunt point. {{nop}}