844 



sph:eriacei. 



Gen. 354. 



IVIASSARIA, De Not. 



Perithecia coriaceous or sub- 

 carbonaceous, immersed, with an 

 erumpentostiolum; sporidia large, 

 septate, sometimes simple, involved 

 in mucus (or with a thick hyaline 

 epispore) oozing out, and usually 

 staining the matrix. — Berk. Outl. 

 p. 402. Tul. Carp. ii. p. 223. 



Fig. 391. 



Sporidia septate. 



2527. Massazia siparia. Tul. " Woolly Massaria-" 



Pygxidia. — Perithecia sub-solitary, lenticular ; stylospores ob- 

 clavate, fasciculate, 3-5 septate, brown, terminal cell hyaline. — 

 Prostherniurii betulinum, Kze. M.H. \.t. \.f. 10, Fr. S.M.iii. p. 

 484. Eng. Fl. v. p. 297. Curr. Phil. Trans, cxlvii. t. 26,/. 30, 31. 

 Corda. Ic. iii./. 67. 



AscoPHORE. — Covered, scattered ; perithecia large, depressed, 

 woolly ; ostiola obtuse, very short ; asci clavate, large ; sporidia 

 brown, oblong, cymbifomi, cellular, involved in mucus. — Tul. 

 Caiy. u.p. 232. Sphoeria siparia, B. 8f Br. Ann. N.H. no. 625, t. 

 9,/. 8. Rahh. F.E. no. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii t. 58,/. 98. FcTcl. 

 exs. no. 2011. Fckl. Sym. Myc. t. 6,f. 5. 



On birch. Feb. 



The -Derithecia are clothed vnth a more or less dense ferruginous wool, de- 

 pressed, covered by the cuticle. Sporidia (■002-"0024 in.) •0o-*06 m.ra. long. 



2528. IVIassazia azgus. Tul. " Eyed Massaria." 



Pycnidia. — Globose, densely clothed with white or cinereous 

 flocci ; stylospores large, on septate peduncles, at length oblong- 

 elliptic, multilocular, at first with a gelatinous envelope, oozing 

 out and forming a black mass. — Hendersonia polycystis, B. ^. 

 Br. Ann. N.H. no. 415. Rahh. F.E. no. 264. Myxocycluscon- 

 Jiuens, Fres. Beitr. t. 7,/. 41-45. 



AscoPHORE. — Covered; perithecia large, depressed, collapsed, 



