Drawings of fungi
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Sphæria multiflora, Dr. Hook, offered, at Perth scotland, at length in confluent patches, of a transparent - brown, the surface smooth, with articles in which are 3-4 black shining, oval minute Sphæria multiflora partially filled (or a cocoa nut-thus) three numerous, filiform, slightly curved, sparsa, chief side and dorsal, in a platynerous matrix in which - fibrinous structure prevails, fibres parallel with the latter, sharply, opaque, red, rather acute & sporae, except a flattened line of Sphæria at the centre. In the Tropics - also on palings. Dundee. March 1858. The young plants often burst out from under the cotyledons. Sphæria multiflora, several inches in length and breadth. The shells are not partially filled, being hollow in the centre, The matured seed appear hemispherical; their collection affords shells are of pale platynerous matter, with a slight curl of the edge. These very hard.