464 



SPHiERONEMEI. 



1380. Discella abnormis. B. S^ Br. " Abnormal Discella." 



Perithecia globose, spurious, pierced above with a round pore ; 

 spores shortly fusiform, yellow-brown, uniseptate. — B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no, 429*. 



On shoots of elder. Batheaston. 



Perithecia small, entirely covered witb ths cuticle, globose, confused with 

 the matrix. Approaches the type of Diplodia. 



Gen. 137. 



PHLYCT^SNA, Desm. 



Perithecium spurious, simple, never deficient above ; spores 

 elongated. — Berk, OutLj^- 323. 



1381. Phlyctaena vagabunda. Besm, '* Common Phlyctsena." 



Spots none, or very minute, brown, fibrillose ; pseudo-peri- 

 thecia mimerous, scattered ; spores hyaline, curved, elongated, 

 linear, somewhat obtuse, with 7-9 sporules. — Desm, Ann. Sc, 

 Nat. 1847,viii.|9. 16. Desm. exs. no. 1624. B.^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 

 753. Lib. exs. no. 248. Moug, exs, no, 1086. 



On dead teazle stems, &c. 



1382. Phlyctaena Johnstonii. B. % Br. " Johnston's Phlj^ctcen a." 



Spots rather broad ; pseudo-perithecia brown ; sporophores 

 flexuous, ample ; spores elongated, curved, nodulose in the 

 middle.— 5. ^. Br. Ann. N.H. no, 639*. 



On dead Senecio Jacohcea, Berwick. 



Spore? several times longer than in P. vagabunda, the sporophores highly 

 developed, and towards the centre of the spores there is generally a distinct 

 knot, and frequently the outline is more or less irregular.— ^.<£'^r. 



Gen, 138. 



CEUTHOSPORA, Fr. 



Perithecium spurious, 

 innate, stromatiform, mul- 

 ticellular ; spores ejected 

 from one or more orifices. 

 -^BerJc. Outl.p. 323. 



{Fig. 176.) 



Fig. 176. 



