SPH^RIACEI. 



801 



dark brown. — Tul Carp.\\. p. 60, t. 8,f. 1-9. Diati^ype decipiens, 

 Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 49, /. 196. S. decipiens^ D.C. Fl. Fr. 

 ii. p. 285. Eng. Fl. v. p. 246. Rahh. F.E. no. 144. S.floriformis, 

 Sow.t.2d7. 

 On hornbeam. 



Perithecia ovate -oblong', with a rather long neck, surmounted by the 

 beautifully radiato-rugose, more or less deeply umbilicate ostiola.— J/. /. B. 

 Sporidia ('OUOS in.) -0075 m.m. 



2404. 



Eutypa elevata. B. " Many spored Eutypa." 



Elongated, emergent, somewhat cracked ; perithecia scattered, 

 globose, middle-sized, with a conical neck, immersed in the wood ; 

 ostiola punctiform ; asci clavate ; sporidia nnmerous, opaqne, 

 sausage-shaped. — Diatrype elevata, B. ^- Br. Ann. X.H. no. 844. 

 Sphceria elevata, Berk. Hook. Jour. (1845),^. 298. Curr. Linn. 

 Trans, xxii. t. 47,/. 109. 



On dead twigs of Euonymus. Jan. Batheaston. 



Sporidia (-OOOS.-OOOSS in.) 'OOro-'OOSo m.m. long (B. & Br.), (•0006.-0007 

 in.) -OlS.-OlZm.m. (F.C.) 



Forming elongated, raised, irregular, black, or greyish spots, ^ line thick, 

 ■^-1 line long. Perithecia globose, middle-sized, with a conical neck, im- 

 mersed in the wood, scattered, covered with a thin black stroma ; ostiola 

 punctiform, not very visible externally ; asci clavate, containing an indefinite 

 number of curved opaque sporidia, which are far larger than in the neigh- 

 bouring species, resembling Ev.fjjpa lata, but distinguished by the much 

 larger opaque sporidia which are contained in clavate asci. — M.J. B. 



Gen. 346. MELOGRAMMA, Tul. 



Stroma subglobose, depressed, cellu- 

 lar ; perithecia immersed, adnate ; spo- 

 ridia linear, lanceolate, or ovate, pluri- 

 locular or simple. — Tul. Carp. ii. p. 81. 

 Fr. S. V.S.p. 386. {Fig. 382.) 



2405. Melogxaxnma Bulliardi. T%d. 



" Bulliard's Melogramma.' 



Subrotund, obconical, dingy, blackish ; 

 perithecia confluent, rather jDrominent ; 

 sporidia biseriate, linear-lanceolate or 

 fusiform, straight or slightly arcuate, 

 at length quadrilocular, ultimate cells 

 at either end hyaline. — Tul. Carp. ii. p. 81, U xi./. 1-9. Melo- 

 gramma fusisporiurn, Fr.S.V.S.p.2>i^Q. Berk. Outl.p. 391. Sph. 



Fig. 382. 



