SPH^EIACEI. 897 



var. a. Pisi. On pea stems. Sphcsria pisi, Sow. t. 393, /. 8. 

 Eng. Fl. Y.p. 275. Berk. exs. no. 183. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 

 60,/. 131. Pleosporapisi^ Fckl. Sym. My c. p. 1^1. Fckl.exs.no. 

 899. 



var. p. Scrophularise. On Scrophularia stems and capsules. 

 Sphceria Scrophularice, Eng. Fl. v. p)- 276. Pleospora scropjhu- 

 laricB, Bahh. Cooke exs. no. 376. 



var. <y. Leguminum. On pods of beans, vetclies, Colutea, &c. 

 Pleospora leguminum, Rahh. exs. no. 548. Fckl. exs. no. 2129. 



The sporidia are very variable in size, but we see no reason for splitting 

 up this species in the manner that some authors have proposed. 



2693. Spheeiria infectoria. FcM. " Straw Pleospora." 



Perithecia disposed in lines, rarely solitary, always covered, 

 at length cracking the cuticle, minute, globose, black, staining 

 the straw ; asci cylindrical, stipitate ; sporidia uniseriate, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, five -septate, and muriform, slightly constricted, 

 yellowish. — Pleospora infectoria, Fckl.Sym.Myc.p. 132, t. 3,/. 23, 

 Fckl. exs. no. 2246. Pleospora culmorum, Cooke JISS. 



On straw of Ammopliila a-mndinacea. May. Shere. (Dr. 

 Capron.) 

 Sporidia (-OOOS-'OOl in.) •02.-025 m.m. long. 



B. Sporidia coloured, not muriform. 



2694. Sphaeria lunarise. B.d: Br. •* Honesty Sphseria." 



Gregarious ; perithecia black, subglobose ; ostiola papillas- 

 form, soon piercing the cuticle; asci linear; sporidia biseriate, 

 oblong, triseptate. — B. ^* Br, Ann. N.H. tic*. 892, t. 11,/. 36. 



On dried pods of Lunaria rediviva. 



Gregarious, minute, black, subglobose, piercing the cuticle by the papillae- 

 form ostiolum ; asci short, linear, obtuse ; sporidia ('001 in.* ■025 m.m. long, 

 biseriate, oblong, acute or obtuse, very slightly curved, triseptate, articula- 

 tion slightly torulose. — B. cj' Br. 



2695. Sphaeria Clivensis. B. d: Br. ** Brown spored herb 



Sphgeria." 



Covered, subglobose ; ostiola minute, perforating ; asci elon- 

 gato-clavate ; sporidia oblong, curved, slightly, obtuse at either 

 end, triseptate, brown. — B. 4" Br. Ann. N.H. no. 643, t. 11,/ 29. 

 Cooke exs. no. 386. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 59,/ 136. 



On dead stems of parsnips, &c. July. 



