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SPH^RONEMEI. 



1362. Excipula macrotricha. B.^Br. " Furze Excipula." 



Perithecia hispid, liairs long, straight; spores minute, lumi- 

 late.— 7?. (j- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 444. 

 On dead furze branches. 



Perithecia larger tlian in the other species, coarsely hispid, hairs^long, 

 their inner tube separating easily from the cuter. 



1363. Excipula chaetostroma. B.(tBr. " Ash-key Excipula." 



Gregarious, convex, cinereous, everywhere penetrated by black 

 bristles ; spores lunate, sub-fusiform. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 

 445,f. 11,/. 2. 



On dead ash keys. Somerset. 



Minute, convex, black ; disc rough with the long inarticulate bristles, 

 which everywhere penetrate its substance ; spores on rather long, fasciculate, 

 or connate sporoiihores, lunate, subfusiform, acute at either extremity, pale; 

 endochrome granulated, green under the microscope. — B. d: Br. 



1364. Excipula fusispora. B. & Br. " Clematis Excipula." 



Minute, very black, invested with rigid bristles; spores fusi- 

 form, multiseptate, middle articulations darker. — B. ^- Br. Ann. 

 N.H.no.8U,t.9,f.l. 



On bark of Clematis vitalha. Jan. Batheaston. 



Forming very minute black specks, perithecia clothed with dense, slightly 

 waved, continuou?: setse ; spores curved, fusiform, "002 in. ('05 m.m.) long, 

 multiseptate, the two extreme articulations hyaline, the others rather darker, 

 and generally containing a globose nucleus. — B.d;Br. 



Gen. 129. 



Fig. 171. 



DINEMASPORIUM, Lev. 



Perithecia excipuliform, delicate, hispid ; 

 spores hyaline, aristate at either extremity. 

 —Berk. Outl.p. 321. {Fig. 171.) 



1365. Dinexnaspoxium graminuxn. 



Lev. "Grass Dinemasporium." 



Perithecia scattered, hairy, with simple, 

 black bristles ; spores cylindrical, obtuse, 

 curved, aristate. — Lev. Ann. Sc. Nat. May, 

 1846,^9. 274. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 446. 

 Excipula graminum. Berk. exs. no. 328. 

 Lib. exs. no. 348. Corda. Icon. iii. /. 79. 

 Fckl. exs.no. 204. 



On leaves of grasses. 



