856 spil3:eiacei. 



h. Villosoe. 

 Perithecia persistently hairy. — Fr. S.M. ii.|?.322. 



* Sporidia coloured. 



2557. Sphseria ovina. Pers. "Woolly Sphgeria." 



Peritliecia subglobose, clotlied -svitli dirty-white, mucedinous 

 down, naked at the base ; ostiolum papillate, at length black ; 

 sporidia biseriate or crowded, pale brown, long, flexuous. — Pers. 

 Syn.p.ll. Fr. S.M. \i. p. 446. Fries, exs. no. 149. Eng.Fl.Y, 

 p. 260. Curr.Linn. Trans, xxii.^. 316. S. nivea, Sow.t. 219. Lej?- 

 tospora ovina, FcJcl. Sym. Myc. p. 143. Fchl. exs. no. 788. 



On decayed wood. [Mid. Carolina.] 



2558. Sphaeria brassicae. Klotsch. " Cabbage Sphgeria." 



Perithecia conical, their bases innate, clothed with dirty-white 

 arachnoid down ; ostiola naked, simple, jet-black ; sporidia colour- 

 less, then pale brown, ultimately dark opaque brown, elliptical, 

 with pointed ends or lozenge-shaped. — Eng. FI.y. p.2Q)l. Curr. 

 Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 57,/. 23. 



On dead cabbage stalks. 



Sporidia (•0014-"002in.) '03-"05 m.m. long. Perithecia large, K-airy at the 

 bottom, hairs vrhite or brown, sporidia sometimes with two large nuclei, 

 sometimes with a dark line not extending quite across the svo^idium, — F C. 



2559. Sphaezia hirsuta. Pr. "Hairy Black Sphaeria." 



CoyiDiA. — Gregarious, stem rigid, persistent, black ; head sub- 

 rotund, at length compact, greyish. — Stilhumrigidum^Pers. Syn. 

 p. 680. FcJcl. exs.no. 177. 



AscoPHORE. — Perithecia subglobose, and ovat.e, tuberculate, 

 black, covered with scattered hairs of the same colour; ostiolum 

 obsolete ; sporidia biseriate or crowded, pale brown, long, flex- 

 uous. — Fr. S.M. \i. p. ^A^. Eng. Fl. v. p. 262. Curr. Linn. 

 Trans, xxii. t. b7,f. 18. Lasiosphceria hirsuia, Fckl. Sym. Myc. 

 p. 147, t. 3,/. 32. Fchl. exs. no. 950. 



var. /3. acinosa. Perithecia globose and subdepressed, black- 

 brown.— iJa^scA./. 179. Sow. t. 386,/. 3 ? 

 On decayed wood. 

 Sporidia e002--002G in.) -OO'-OG m.m. 



