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CONSISTS of little round sphærulæ, of a brownish colour, profusely scattered over a rotting piece of fir that had been worked. They are so strongly attached as to leave their bases if we try to rub them off. TAB. CCCXCVI.

graminea, and sometimes Stellaria holostea, are affected with this in the pollen, swelling and bursting the anthers, shrivelling the petals, and often burning from the germ, as it ripens: it is of a dark brown colour. The same seems to be found on Bromus mollis and some other grasss, &c.

SEEMS a parasitical destroyer of the pollen of the Scabiosa arvensis (Field Scabious), filling the anthera so copioully that it is soon scattered all over the flower, giving it the appearance of having been rubbed in a dully road, the powder being of a lightish brown colour.

FORMED partly within the stem of Agaricus elephantinus, in the latter shrivelled and carbonated or black state, sometimes emerging half way, or more. This is rather more crustaceous on the outside than 'Farinariæ generally are. The colour is ferruginous.

SWELLS the feeds of Carex micheliana, distorting them into an oblong curved black body.

THIS was found on some mouldy French berries. It is black, and of various shapes.