Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 383 



of the kind is figured by BayrhofFer, Einigcs iiber Liclienen, t. 3. 

 f. 12. See also Gardeners' Chroniele^ Dec. 20, 1851 . The apical 

 spores in Lichenopsis of Schweinitz are evidently of the same 

 nature. 



Plate XII. fig. 36. a. Ascus; 6. young sporidia; c. older; d. young 

 sporidiura showing the bulging septum ; e. sporidia (sometimes appendicu- 

 late) from S. perforans, Roberge. Fig. 37. Paraphyses of lichen bearing 

 conidia. All more or less magnified. 



651. S. phceosticta, Berk, in Antarct. Fl. Crypt, p. 59. tab. 68. 

 fig. 4. On Carex pendula, Thornhaugb, Norths. 



The antarctic specimens are on Hierochloe Brunnoniensis. The 

 sporidia are brown, and resemble those of S. fusca. 



^^^^tAifU'^ll. fig. 38. a. Ascus; b. sporidia. Both more or less magnified. 



652. S. (Foliicolse) eucrypta, n. s. Tecta ; peritheciis ovatis 

 teneris, e floccis sparsis ramosis enatis ; collo brevissimo ; ascis 

 clavatis ; sporidiis lineari-fusiformibus ; endochromatibus pluri- 

 bus insequaiibus. On leaves of Carex pend^q,^^^i^^^jiy^j^^^* 

 1850. _ ■ >..h^,(7.. 'C-^. '^.^rC^ 



Scarcely visible unless the leaf is held up to the light ; peri- 

 thecia delicate, ovate, with a very short neck and round aperture 

 like a little India-rubber bottle, springing from threads which 

 are mostly branched at right angles. Asci very delicate, clavate ; 

 sporidia j^gth of an inch long, lineari-fusiform, with several eu- 

 dochromes varying much in size. 



A pretty species, but very liable to be overlopked; unless the 

 leaves on which it grows chance to be saturated with moisture, 



Plate XII. fig. 40. a. Asci ; h. sporidia; c. threads accompanying the 

 perithecia, and with which they are partially clothed. 



653. S. (Foliicola?) helicospora, n. s. Tecta; peritheciis subglo- 

 bosis ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis linearibus longissimis spiraliter 

 involutis. On leaves of Cyperacece, West of England. 



Distinguished from the former by its extremely long spirally 

 disposed sporidia, which resemble those of Hysterium apiculatum. 



654. S. (Foliicolse) palustris, u. s. Tecta; peritheciis glo- 

 bosis ; ostiolo minuto papill?eformi, ore tandem rotundo aperto. 

 Ascis linearibus. Sporidiis ellipticis curvulis uniseptatis utrinque 

 appendiculatis. On dead leaves of Iris, Carex, &c., Batheaston, 

 Dec. 1849. 



Scattered, completely covered by the cuticle, globose at first, with 

 a minute papillaeform ostiolum, at length opening with a regular 

 round aperture, the edges of which adhere closely to the matrix. 

 Asci linear ; sporidia uniseriate or rarely biseriate from slipping 

 over each other, cymbiform, brown, uniseptate, furnished at 

 either end with a hyaline appendage rather shorter than the 



