848 



SPH^KIACEI. 



at length connate ; ostlola elongated, conical, emergent ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia uniseriate,- ovate-oblong, simple, opaque, 

 nearly hlack.—Sph. fimeti, Pers. Sijn. p. 64. Fr. S.M. \\,p. 373. 

 Fries, exs. no. 2G9. Eng. FI.y. p.2^Q,. Hypocopra fimeti, Fchl. 

 Sym.M?/c.p.24:0. Fckl.exs.no. 1001. Sphceria equina, FcU. 

 exs. no. 1802. 



On horse and cow dung. Appin. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Gen. 355. 



I.OPHIOSTOMA, De Not. 



Perithecia carbonaceous, erum- 

 pent ; ostiolum large, compressed . 

 Sporidia two or many celled, 

 coloured or hyaline. 



{Fig. 392). 



Fig. 392. 



2537. 



Lopliiostoma xnacrostoxna. 



Lophiostoma." 



Fr. " Large-mouthed 



Perithecia scattered, at first immersed, at length emergent, 

 black ; ostiolum compressed, labiate ; sporidia uniseriate, yellow, 

 then brown, 7-septate, the last joint at each extremity small and 

 colourless. — De Not. Schema, p. 45. Cooke Trans. Bot. Ed. t. 6,/. 

 1. Sphceina macrostoma, Tode. f. 76, 77. Fr. Sys. Myc. vol.ii.p. 

 469.. Fries, exs. no. 345. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 881. Desm. exs. 

 no. 772. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. ^. 321,pZ. Iviii.^^. 65 ? Fckl. 

 exs.no. 923. 



On bark of sycamore and on holly twigs. 



Sporidia ('0014 in.) "035 m.m. long. Mr. Currey's measurement is '0010- 

 '0012 in. long. Messrs. Berkeley & Broome's description of the sporidia is 

 " '0008 in. long, oblong torulose, triseptate, very like those of S. Asj^er/reriii." 

 My specimens accord with those published by Desmazieres and Fuckel. The 

 sporidia figured by Mr. Currey (fig. 65) appear to belong to the present 

 species. 



2538. Lophiostoma bicuspidata. Cooke. " Two -horned 



Lophiostoma." 



Perithecia scattered, black, immersed, eleyating and pushing 

 through the matrix with their narrow elongated ostiola ; asci 

 clavate ;• sporidia biseriate, 5 septate, with occasional transverse 

 septa, constricted, brown, each extremity at first furnished with 

 a hyaline beak bent at both ends in the same direction, so as to 



