SPH^EOXEilEI. 429 



1253. Sphaeropsis alismatis. Curr. " Water Plantain 



Spheeropsis. " 



Peritheciasubglobose, chestnut-coloured. Spores colourless, 

 bordered, elliptical, subglobose or turbinate, with sometimes the 

 a[)parent remains of a peduncle. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii.^;. 334. 

 On Alisma plantago. 

 Spores •0004--000O in. ('Ol-'Ol^o m.m.) long. 



Gen. 110. DOTKZORA, Fr. 



Nucleus slowly dereloped, gelatinoso-grumous, black, im- 

 mersed in an erumpent stroma, sub-carbonaceous externallj, 

 fleshy within, always astomous ; spores pedicellate, obovate, 

 simple. — Berk. Outl.p. 316. 



1254. Dothiora pyrenophora. Fr. " Apple-twig Dothiora." 



Erumpent, elliptic, piano-depressed, even, black, internally 

 white. — Dothidea pyrenophoraj Fr. S.M. ii, p. hh2. Berk. Ann. 

 N.H.no. 199. Berk. exs. no. 282. 



On apple and pear twigs. [Low. Carolina.] 



In my copy of Berkeley's British Fungi, Xo. 282, the spores are brown, 

 uniseptate, and quite undistinguishable from those of a JJiplodia. 



1255. Sothiota sphseroides. Fr. '•' Ash-twig Dothiora." 



Gregarious, subfasciculate, erumpent, irregularly angular, be- 

 coming plane, black, internally white. — Dothidea sphceroides,Fr. 

 S.M. ii.p. 552. Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 198. 



On ash twigs. Common. 



Dr. Capron believes that he has traced this to a Dijjlodia, when matnre. 



Gen. 111. CLINTERIUM, Fr. 



Perithecium erumpent, free, carbonaceous, bursting by fissures 

 at the apex ; nucleus gelatinoso-floccose ; spores simple. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 316. Fr.S.V.S.p.US. 



1256. Clinterium obturatum. Fr. " Ling Clinterium." 



Erumpent, nearly free, even, regular, black ; rimoso-dehis- 

 cent, at length collapsed. — Summ. V. S. p. 418. Berk. Out!, p. 

 316. Sphoeria ohturata. Fr. S.M. ii.p. 495. Fries, exs. no. 128. 

 Fng.FLY.p.271. 



On leaves of ling. Appin. 



