SPH^EOXEMEI. 



46.: 



o 



1383. Ceuthospora lauri. Grev. " Laurel Ceutliospora." 



Unilocular, brownish-black, obtusely conic splitting into 3-4 

 acute erect laciniee ; spores minute. — Grev. t. 254. JEng. Fl. Y.p. 

 283. SphcBria lauri. Sow.t.S71,f. 4:, S. heeler ce f^^ lauri. Fr. 

 S.M.n.p.h2\. Cooke exs. 710. 167. Berk.exs.no.Sd. 



On dead leaves of cherry laurel. {F'ig. 176.) 



Ceuthospora phacidioides, Grev. [Cooke, exs. no. 156) is 

 an imperfect condition oi Phacidium ilicis. 



Gen. 139. 



ERIOSFORA, B. & Br. 



Stroma multicellular; spores ejected by a 

 common orifice, quatemate, filiform, seated on 

 short sporophores. — Berk. Outl. p. 323. Ann. 

 N.H.no.4:3^. (Fig. 177.) 



Fig. 177. 



1384. 



Eriospora leucostoma. B. 



Eriospora." 



cC- Br. " White mouthed 



Spots pitch brown ; stroma depressed, cells variable, sub- 

 globose; spores very long, filiform. — B. & Br. Ann. N.H. no. 

 438,^11,/. 1. 



On dead leaves of Typlia. Feb. Wilts. 



Spots pitch brown, very thin and diffused towards the edges, not a line 

 broad, marked in the centre ■with a punctiform, white-bordered, pulverulent 

 aperture ; stroma depressed ; cells varying in number, generally globose, 

 but sometimes from the confluence of one or more depressed ; spores very 

 long, filiform, so delicate that they wave from the minute currents formed 

 by the evaporation of the water in which placed for examination, at first 

 seated four together on short cylindrical sporophores, but soon falling off. — 

 B. <t Br. {Fig. 177.) 



