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Pl.csU.aph. 6. SARCOTHALAME^. 139.Hypox. 513
|3. spalhulatum^ Thallus slightly compressed, reverse-
conical; stipes very short.
y. mammillanum. Club bellied, ending in a long barren
point.
5. Hypoxylon digitatum. Fingered hypoxylon.
Thallus leatherlike, corky, black; inside white; stipes
tip white, powdery, pointed, naked.
connate at bottom ;
Clavaria digitata, Lin. Sysl. Veg. ed. 15, 1010.
Sphseria digitata, Persoon Syn, 7.
On rotten wood.
VI., 140. PERIPHEROSTOMA. Peripherostome.
Thallus leatherlike, corky, hemispherical, sessile, depressed;
thecce in the circumference of the thallus.
a. Thallus naked, free.
1. Periph. concentricum, Conceiitric peripherostome.
Thallus nearly globose, bald, uneven; thecce immersed,
in concentric striae.
Spliaeria conccntrica, BoUon Fungi, 160.
Sphseria fraxinea, Somerby Fungi, 160.
On ash and hornbeam trees.
Thallus 2 or 3 inches in diameter.
^. muUicapsulare. Thallus small.
Sphasiia multicapsula, Sowerby Fungi, 436.
2. Periph. fragiformis. Strawberry peripherostome,
Thallus nearly globular, black ; surface granulated i
thecce rather prominent, reddish-brown.
Lycoperdon vnriolosum, Lin. Syst. Veg. ed. 15,9, 1019.
Spliaeria fragiformis, Persoon Syn. 9.
On birch-trees.
S. Peripherostoma fuscum. Broivn peripherostome,
Thallus brown, hemispherical, flattened, confluent ; thecce
swollen, umbilicated, tubercular.
Sphseria confliiens, Willd. Berol. 416.
Sphseria fragiformis, Hoffin^rypl. 1,20.
Sphseria tuberculosa, Bolton Fungi, 123 ;
Sphseria aciniformis, Sowerby Fungi, 273 ?
Sowerby Fungi, 3T4.
Sphseria fusca, Persoon Syn, 12.
On the dried branches of hawthorn or of nut-trees.
Thallus conical, scattered, dark opake dull brown ;
sometimes even, not swollen.
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