858 SPH^RIACEI. 



2564. Sphaeria canescens. Pen, " Hoary Sphseria." 



Peritliecia aggregate, globose and ovate, hairy, papillate, 

 hoary ; sporidia colourless, straight, or curved, subacuminate. — 

 Perfi. Syn. \\.p. 448. Fr.S.M. ii.p. 261. Fries, exs. no. 50. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p. 261. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. b7,f, 14. Berk. exs. no. 

 301. 



On decayed wood. [Low. Carolina.] 



Perithecia forming a dense stratum of a cinereous brownish or greenish 

 hue, very hairy, brittle. Sporidia COOll-'OOM in.) '025-085 m.m. long. 



2565. Sphaexia strigosa. A.^S. *' Bristly Spbgeria." 



Perithecia aggregate, globose and ovate, papillary, beset all 

 round with long, rigid, hoary hairs ; sporidia elongated, some- 

 what curved, pale tawny, simple. — Fr. S.M. ii.p. 4:4:8 . A. ^ iS. 

 t. 5, /. 7. Fng. Fl. v. />. 261. Leptospgra sti-igosa, Fckl. Sym. Myc. 

 p. 144. Spjh. mucida, Fckl. exs. no. 948. 



On decayed wood. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.] 



Distinguished from S. canescens by its closer habit, and tough, not brittle 

 substance. The hairs of both, though giving the perithecia a hoary appear- 

 ance, are not always white, but frequently of a brownish or yellowish hue. 

 — M.J.B. Mr. Currey does not think the two species distinguishable. 



2566. Sphaeria ei&ilis. A. ^- S. •' Hairy Pine Sphseria." 



Black, very minute ; perithecia globose, then depressed, at 

 length collapsed, concave, astomous, clothed with short hairs ; 

 sporidia cylindrical, curved, simple, hyaline. — A. ^ S. t. 9,/. 4. 

 B. ^" Br. Ann. N.H. no. 606. Fckl. exs. no. 2023. Nitschkia exilis, 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 165. 



On pine twigs. Wraxall. [Low. Carolina.] 



2567. Sphaeria superficialis. Curr. " Currey's Hairy 



Sphaeria." 



Perithecia hairy, subglobose, very small, seated on a hairy 

 subiculum ; sporidia uniseriate, overlapping, elliptical, or sub- 

 turbinate, rarely slightly curved, colourless. — Curr. Linn. Trans. 

 xxii.;;. 317, f. 57,/. 25. 



On fir wood. 

 Sporidia (•0003--0004 in.) -OOrG-'Ol m.m. binucleate. 



2568. Sphaeria calva. Tode. " Tode's Hairy Sphasria." 

 Perithecia scattered, depresso-globose, papillary, even, black, 



