SPH^EIACEI. 785 



Berk. exs. no, 176. Grev. t. 186,/. 2. Hoff. B.T. t. 12,/. 2. Nees. 

 f. 361. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 67,/. 44. Eng. Fl. v. p. 262. 

 Peziza hydrophora, Bull. t. 410,/. 2. ^Soz^'. ^. 23. 



On decayed stumps. [United States.] 



Sporidia (•0004.-0006 in.) -Ol-'Olo m.m. long. 



Nectxia auxea, Grev. t. 47. 



Messrs. Berkeley and Broome state (Ann. N.H. 1866, p. 128) that the 

 Spkceria awrea of Greville is a Nectria allied to N. peziza. 



2359. Nectxia platasca. Berk. " Touchwood Xectria." 



Scattered ; perithecia orange, globose, confluent with, the 

 subobtuse ostiolum ; base immersed ; asci broad above ; sporidia 

 oblong, triseptate, quadrinucleate. — Berk. Outl. p. 393. Sph. 

 platasca, Eng. Fl. Y.p). 263. 



On touchwood. Rockingham Forest, 



Perithecia globose, but tapering above into the ostiolum, which varies 

 somewhat in length, so as to have a slightly ovate appearance, immersed in 

 the soft white wood, almost to the base of the ostiolum, of the same colour 

 as Peziza aurardia, with now and then a few indistinct filaments ; asci broad 

 above ; sporidia oblong, divided into four articulations, each containing a 

 nucleus. — MJ^.B. 



2360. Nectxia sanguinea. Fr. " Blood-red Nectria." 



Scattered, soft, minute ; perithecia ovate, papillary, blood-red ; 

 sporidia elliptical, colourless, uniseriate, uniseptate. — Curr. Linn. 

 Trails. -Kxii. t. b7,f.4:b. Fr. S.V.S. j^- ^^^' Sph. sanguinea, Fr. 

 S.M. Up. 453. E7ig. Fl. \.p. 263. Bolt. t. 121. Soiv. t. 254. 

 Fries, exs. no. 264. Grev. 1. 175,/. 1 . Baxt. exs. no. 75. Berk. exs. 

 no. 83 (var. cicatricuni). 



On sticks, wood, Hypoxyla, ^c. Common. [United States.] 

 Sporidia (•0004--0005 in.) ■01--0127 m.m. 



2361. Nectxia episphsexia. Fr. " Parasitic Nectria." 



Gregarious, soft, very small, blood-red ; perithecia somewhat 

 compressed, collapsing ; pajjilla convexo-oblong ; sporidia colour- 

 less, elliptical, acuminate, or round at the ends, endochrome 

 bipartite or binucleate. — Tul. Carp), iii. p). 91. Curr. Linn. Trans. 

 xxii, t. hi, f. 47. Sp)h. epispheria, Tode. f. 89. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 

 454. Fries, exs. wc. 265. Eng. Fl.Y.p.263. Grev.t. 175,/. 2. 



On Hypoxyla, &c. [United States.] 



Sporidia (•0002--0004 in.) •005--01 m.m. 



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