SPH^EIACEI. 



853 



Fig. 393. 



A. SUPERFICIALES. 



Simple. Peritlieoia bicorticate, 

 seated on an effused villous sub- 

 iculum, or superficially on the flat- 

 tened matrix, free, at first veiled. — 

 Fr.S.M.u.p.d21. 



a. Byssisedoe. 



Peritbecia smooth, seated on a 

 tomentose subiculum. — Fr. S.M. ii. 

 i5. 322. 



2549. 



* Sporidia coloured, simple. 

 Sphaeria thelena. Fr. " Large nestling Sphajria." 



Peritbecia confluent, globose, thin, papillate, brown-black, 

 emerging from a purplish evanescent subiculum ; sporidia black- 

 brown, opaque, elliptical or slightly curved. — F7\ S.M. ii.p. 441. 

 Fries, exs.no. 4,^. Curr. Linn. Titans, xxii. t. 67, f. S. S. aquila, 

 Eng.Fl.Y. 2^.2d^. 



On decayed wood. Appin. 



Subiculum dense, interwoven, superficial, loosely adherent, indeterminate ; 

 perithecia large, even, smooth, wholly emerging from the subiculum, at length 

 confluent, and the subiculum is totally obliterated. Sporidia sometimes with 

 a large nucleus ('0009 in.) '022 m.m. 



2550. Sphaeria aquila. Fr. " Brown nestling Spharia." 



CoNiDiA. — Forming a thickened effused subiculum ; flocci 

 brown; conidiasubglobose, minute. — Alytosporiumfuscum, Link. 

 s/). i.|;. 23. Sporotrichumfuscum^Lk.Ohs. i.j). 35. Fckl. exs.no. 

 139. 



AscoPHORE. — Perithecia gregarious, globose, firm, papillate, 

 brown black, emerging from a persistent brown, tomentose, sub- 

 iculum; sporidia dark brown, almost opaque, almond-shaped or 

 subcymbiform, or oblong. — Cooke exs. no. 270. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 

 442. Berk. Ann. N.H. no. 180. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 57,/. 

 4. Moiig. exs. no. 965. Schm. exs.no.b8. Tode.f. 70. S. byssis- 

 eda, Eng. Fl. \.p. 260. Rosellinia aquila, Tul. Carp. ii. /?. 250, t, 

 33,/. 1-6. Fckl. exs. no. 963. Be Not. Sfer.Ital. t. v./. 18. 



On rotten sticks. Common. [United States.] 



Sporidia COOOG-'OOOS in.) •015--02 m.m. i,Fig. 393.) 



