428 SPH^EO^^EMEI. 



rerithecia globose, seated beneath a discoloured cinereons spot, springing 

 from forked septate threads, spores oblong, about three times longer than 

 their diameter. The forked septate threads of the mycelium, with their ob- 

 tuse apices, are very remarkable. — B.d'Br. 



1249. Sphaeropsis xnutica. B. ^ Br. " Smooth Sphasropsis." 



Enimpent ; peritliecia globosej obtuse, more or less csespitose, 

 black, shining ; spores very small, hyaline, elliptic, or obovate. 

 —B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 422*. 



On small branches of elder. Batheaston. 



This has exactly the habit of a Dqolodia. 



1250. Spheeropsis menispora. B. ^^ Br. " Long-spored 



Sphceropsis." 



Concealed entirely beneath the cuticle, except the round ostio- 

 lum ; perithecia ellipsoidal, black ; spores very long, curved, 

 acute at either end, containing many scattered, globose, pellucid 

 nuclei. — B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 425. 



On dead leaves of Typha. Spye Park, Wilts. 



The nuclei are not arranged regularly in a single row, and therefore do not 

 represent endochromes. 



1231. Sphsezopsis malozuxn. Berk. " Apple Spbasropsis." 



Globose or subglobose, covered with the blackened cuticle ; 

 stroma blackish, ostiola erumpent, more or less strongly papillae- 

 form ; spores greenish, elliptical, margined, granular. — BerJc. 

 Outl. p. 316. Sphoeria malorum. Eng. Fl.\. p.2bl . DipAodial 

 malorum. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 49,/. 205. 



On apples lying on the ground. Winter. 



Spores "0012 in. ("03 m, m.) long. 



Sph^ropsis aruxdixacea, Lev, is evidently a condition of 

 SphcBvia arundinacea. — Sow. 



1252. Sphaeropsis taxi. Berk. " Yew-leaf Sphceropsis." 



Gregarious, covered with the epidermis, which becomes grey ; 

 perithecia sub-immersed, convex, black, at length piercing the 

 epidermis by a pore ; spores — ? — BerJc. Oiitl. p. 316. Sphceria 

 Taxi, Eng. Fl. x.p. 21'2. Sow. t. 394,/. 6. Cryp)tosph(Eria Taxi. 

 Grev. t.l2>. 



On dead yew leaves. 



