434 SPH^RONEMEI. 



opaque.— i?^r/j. Outl. ;?. 317. Sow. t. 570,/. 6 ? SpJiceria arhuti- 

 cola, Fr. S.M. ii. p. 500. Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 189. 



On Arbutus uva-ursi leaves. Scotland. 



1274. Diplodia ilicis. Curr. " Holly-leaf Diplodia." 



Gregarious, Mack; perithecia globose, rather prominent, 

 covered ; at length erumpent, dehiscing by fissures ; spores ellip- 

 tical, oblong, sub-globose, or turbinate, irregular, with a yellow- 

 ish green tinge. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. no. 343. Sphceria ilicis. 

 Fr. S.M. u.p. 501. Eng. Fl. v. p. 273. 



On holly leaves. 



RENDERSONZA, Berk. 



Perithecia distinct, spores 2-multisep- 

 tate, escaping by a terminal pore — Berk. 

 Outl. p. 317. Ann. N.H. no. 208. 



(Fig. 158.; 

 Fi^. 158. 



1275. Hendersonia elegans. Berk. " Elegant Hendersonia." 



Seated on a dark brown spot; perithecia shining, gelatinous 

 within, spores 6-8 septate. — Be7^k. Ann. N.H. no. 208, t. 11,/. 9. 

 On culms of reed. April. Tansor. Norths. 



Forming little dark brown spots in the centre of which is seated a single 

 phining perithecinm, the upper part of which causes a little projection above 

 the surface ; perithecia lined with a gelatinous stratum, which gives rise to 

 long, broadly fusiform, pedunculate, colourless spores, with 6-8 dissepi- 

 ments; articulations sometimes swollen, often quite even, each of the cen- 

 tral ones containing a single large globose nucleus, with occasionally a few 

 granules. — M. J. B. 



1276. Hendersonia macrospora. B.sBr. " Large-spored 



Hendersonia." 



Perithecia entirely concealed, spores straight, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, 5-8 septate. — B. 4'Br.Ann.N.H.no.4tl3. 



On dead twigs of Philadelphus coronarius. Oct. Apethorpe. 



Entirely concealed by the cuticle, which is very slightly raised j perithecia 

 globose. 



