SPH^-RIACEl. 863 



2582. Sphaeria perexigua. Ciirr, " Rough little SphcTeria." 



Crowded, black ; perithecia sub-globose, rugose ; sporidia 

 biseriate, colourless, or greenish, subelliptical, slightly curved, 

 endochrome bipartite. — Berk. Outl.p. 396. S.pustula, Curr. Linn. 

 Trans, xxii.p. 317, t. 57,/. 31. 



On wood. Bungay. 



Very like S. pulvis-pyriiis, except in the sporidia, which are ('OOOS-'OOl in.) 

 •02--025 m.m. 



2583. Sphaeria ordinata. Ir. *' Long-line Sphceria." 



Crowded in an elongated series, red-brown ; perithecia minute, 

 soft, subfibrillose at the base ; asci clavate ; sporidia biseriate, 

 curved, fusiform, multiseptate. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 45J:. B. c^* Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 973, t. 11 J. 26. 



On decorticated fallen oak branches. Dec. 



Perithecia scattered or ag^egated, arranged in lines, ovate, with a papil- 

 lary orifice, rusty brown, becoming black, covered at first with a tomentose 

 veil, sometimes regularly attenuated, resting on a brownish friable mycelium. 

 Asci clavate. Sporidia biseriate, curved, fusiform, hyaline, multiseptate 

 ("OUlo in.) "OSS m.m. loug, sometimes shorter. — B. <i: Br. 



2584. Sphsesria xuborum. Lib. " Bramble Sphceria." 



Perithecia globose, or subglobose, with a mamillate ostiolum, 

 covered and nestling amongst stiff, dark, scattered hairs ; spori- 

 dia biseriate, colourless, subcymbiform, or narrowly almond- 

 shaped, nucleate, or pseudo-septate. — Lib. exs. no. 340. Cooke 

 Seem. Journ. 1866. Cooke exs. no. 385. Sph. rubicola, Curr. Linn. 

 Trans, xxii. t. 57,/. 48. 



On bramble. Oct. 



Sporidia COOOB'OOOZ in.) •015-*0177 m.m. with 2 or 4 nuclei, or sometimes 

 with the endochrome divided into two parts. M. Westendorp refers S. ruborum, 

 Lib. to S. callcmorpka, Mont. 



2585. Sphaeria paucipilis. Cooke. *' Few-haired Sphaeria." 



Perithecia gregarious, small, black, globose, with a few scat- 

 tered hairs, which are also scattered over the matrix ; ostiolum 

 slightly papillate ; asci narrowly clavate ; sporidia biseriate, 

 lanceolate, 3-5 septate, with a large globose nucleus in each 

 cell, except the terminal ones, hyaline. 



On rotten sticks. Wootton Wood. (Dr. Capron.) 



The habit is very similar to that of SjjkcBria ruborum, overrunning irres- 

 pectively the naked wood, and the fragments of bark still adherent thereto. 

 Asci -0034 in. long. Sporidia C"0O06--0OOS in.) •015--02 m.m. long. 



