4G0 SPH^EONEMEI. 



1367. Prosthemium stellare. Bless. " Stellate Prosthemium. ' 



Perithecia sub-lentiform, black, covered ; spores brown, 12-20 

 connate in a stellate manner, at length ejected in tendrils. — 

 Eiess. Bot. Zeit. 1853, p. 130, t. 3,/. 28-31. B. 4^ Br. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 939,^. 15,/ 10. 



On alder. West of England. {Fig. 173.) 



Prosthemium betulixum, Kze. is a condition of Massaria 

 siparia. 



en. 132. ASTEROIYIA, D.C 



Perithecia flat, with no determinate 

 orifice, attached to creeping branched 

 threads; spores simple, oruniseptate. — 

 Berh. Outl.p. 321. Eng. Fl. v. p. 288. 

 Fig. 174. {Fig. 114..) 



1368. Aster ozna ireticulatuxn. Berh. " Reticulated Asteroma." 



Epiphyllous, black, sub-seriate, the cells joined by free longi- 

 tudinal creeping, somewhat branched fibrill^e. — Berk. exs. no. 

 41. Eng.Fl. Y.p. 288. Dothidea reticulata. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 560. 

 Sturm.ni.t.l^. Jloug. exs. no. 9S2. Aster oma poly gonati D.C. 

 Mem. Mus. t. 4,/. 5. Fold. exs. no. 464. 



On dead leaves of Convallaria majalis. King's Cliffe. 



1369. Asteroma ulmi. XI. " Elm-leaf Asteroma." 



Fibrillfe very delicate, much branched, radiating, sub-dicho- 

 tomous, flexuous, seated on a brownish spot. — Klotsch. Hook. 

 Herh. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 289. Cooke L.F. no. 74. Cooke exs. no. 155. 



On living elm leaves. Scotland. 



1370. Asteroma prunellae. Purt. " All-heal Asteroma,"' 



Epiphyllous, fibrill^e pitch black, straight, radiating in fas- 

 cicles from a central tubercle, cells minute, sub-central — Baxt. 

 exs. no. 79. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 289. 



On green leaves of Prunella vulgaris. 



It has the appearance of a mimite ffutchinsia, spread out upon the leaf, 

 with its knob-like root in the centre.— ul/. /. jB, 



