TAB. CXXXVI.
LYCOPERDON fragile. Dicks. Fasc. tab. 3. fig. 5. With. 3 ed. 385.
It may seem as if the feeds of this plant floated in the autumnal air, and lighting where chance dircted. I have found them on living grass, &c. a foot or more from the earth, fixed by a gummy matter rather than a root, In the morning, like a thick cream in one mass, which soon becomes yellow, and begins to separate, but, on the least touch, will run together again. It grows harder, and forms distinct plants towards evening. The following day they seem perfected, and consift of a chesnut brown and brittle case, full of dark powder, on something like a loose woolly receptacle.
TAB. CXXXVII.
SPHÆRIA decorticata.
HYPOXYLON nummularium. Bull. Pl. 468. fig. 4.
This species is common in Kensington Gardens. The Rev. Mr. Kirhy, who sent me fine specimens from Suffolk, suggested the name of S. decorticata., much more applicahle than the above of Bulliard. I have found it nearly covering sticks three or four feet long.
TAB. CXXXVIII.
SPHÆRIA cirrhata. Hoff. tab. 6. fig. i.
HYPOXYLON cirrhatum. Bull. Pl. 487. fig. 4.
Found occasionally in Kensington Gardens and Hornsey Wood. Most of the sphæcria discharge a loose powder; this discharges a wax-like substance like fine thread or tendrils, resembling vermicelli.
