SPH^RIACEl. 791 



On soil mostly attached to dung. 



Sporidia ("OOlo-'OOlGin.) "03 m.m. Before maturity surrounded by a gela- 

 tinous envelope. 



2377. Xylaria bulbosa. B.^^Br. " Bulbous Xylaria." 



Corky, simple or forked, brown, then black ; stem cylindrical, 

 bulbous at the base and spongy; sp®ridia narrow, ovate. — Tul. 

 Carp. u.p. 20. B. ^ Br. Berk. Outl.p. 385, t. 24, /. 2. Sphoeria 

 bulbosa, Pers. Ob.^. ii. f. i.f. i. 



Amongst fir leaves. Bath. 



2373. Xylaria vapoiraria. Berk. " Currey's Xylaria. ' 



Stroma sclerotioid, corky, rugose, irregular, terminating at 

 the apex in short prominences (possibly abortive receptacles) ; 

 receptacles conical, stipitate, bearing perithecia only on the lower 

 half; the upper half attenuated, subpulverulent, of a light red- 

 dish brown colour, the lower half darker ; perithecia rather 

 scattered, slightly prominent; nucleus black, glutinous ; spori- 

 dia (8) almond-shaped, biseriate, black. — Curr. Linn. Titans, xxiv. 

 t. 2b, f. 17, 26. B. 4- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1095. 



On Sclerotium found in a mushroom bed. Cornwall. 



" This plant was sent in a sclerotioid condition. In Dec, 1862, I planted 

 it in damp sand, covered it with a bell-glass, and kept it moist in a warm 

 room, in a window facing the south. The fertile branches or receptacles 

 soon made their appearance above the surface of the sand, and by the end 

 of March ripe frait was produced." Sporidia (■00l8-'0022 in.), *04-*055 m.m. 

 Ion g.-i^.C. 



Gen. 340. FORONIA, Fr. 



Stipitate ; stroma between fleshy and corky ; 

 fructifying surface discoid ; perithecia im- 

 mersed ; sporidia ovate, simple, coloured, — 

 Fr. Nov. Sym. Myc.p. 113. 



{Fig. 376.) 

 Fig. 376. 

 2379. Poxonia punctata. Fr. " Punctate Poronia." 



Stipitate, turbinate, externally blackish ; disc truncate, whitish, 

 dotted with the black ostiola ; conidia minute, spherical ; spori- 

 dia at first brown, then black and opaque, elliptical — Fr. S.M. 

 \\.p. 330. Berk. Outl.p. 385. Grev. t. 327. Tul. Carp. ii. p. 27, 

 t. iii./. 17-18. Sow. t. 54. Nees. f. 315. Fries, exs. no. 182. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p2^6. Sph. truncata, Bolt. t. 127, f. 2. Bull. t. 252. Fl. 

 Dan. ^.288. Moug. exs. no. 958. Cun\ Linn. Trans, xxii. ^.45, 

 f,21. 



