SPH^RIACEI. 921 



2772. Sphaerella recutita. Fr. " Linear Grass Sphferella." 



CoNiDiA. — Flocci fasciculate, short, simple, septate, yellow, 

 forming little tufts on bleached spots ; conidia oblong, didymous, 

 yellowish. — Scolicotrichum graminis^ Fckl. exs. no. 130. 



Spermogonia. — Perithecia innate, minute, black, numerous, 

 aggregated, pierced, disposed in parallel lines between the veins ; 

 spermatia linear, straight, or flexuous. — Septoria graminum^Desm. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. (1843), p. 339. 



AscoPHORE. — Hypophyllous. Perithecia aggregate, innate, 

 slightly prominent, very minute, black, forming long parallel 

 strias ; asci clavate ; sporidia uniseptate, hyaline. — Cooke Seem. 

 JoM?'?2. (partly). FcJd. exs.no. 820. SphcBria recutita^ Fr.S.M. 

 i\.p. 524. Berk. Eng. Fl. \.p. 278. 



On grasses. 



" The perithecia grow in rows, but are quite distinct." — M.J.B. The 

 figure and description of fruit given in Seem. Journ Bot. (1866), t. 50, f. 30, 

 tnken from a specimen published in Rabenhorst's Fungi Europeei exs. no. 

 740, do not belong to this species, but to S. culmicola, Fr. 



2773". Sphaerella lineolata. Be Not. " Lineolate SphEerella." 



Amphigenous, erumpent, with a brownish stroma ; perithecia 

 very small, disposed in lines ; asci clavate ; sporidia oblong, with 

 from three to five sp>orules or nuclei. — De Not. Schema p. 63. 

 Cooke Seem. Journ. (1866). ^. 50,/. 31. Gonn. 4' ^abh.y.t. 8,f. 

 113. Sphoeria lineolata, Roberge, Des?n. exs.no.1'263. B.^'Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 616. 



On Ammophila arundinacea. Sands of Barrie. 



Sporidia '0125 m.m.long (at length uniseptate). 



2774. Sphaerella hedexae. Soiv. " Ivy Sphasrella." 



Pycnidia. — Scattered ; perithecia innate, rather prominent, 

 convex, even, black, ostiolum white ; stylospores ovate, pellucid. 

 — Sphceropsis leucostigma,Lev. Ann. Sc. Nat. (1846), p. 296. B. ^ 

 Br. Ann. N.H. no. 420. Sphceropsis hederce, Curr. Linn. Trans. 

 xxii.^. 332. 



AscoPHORE. — Scattered ; perithecia, together with the innate 

 epidermis, rather prominent, convex, even, black ; ostiolum 

 pierced, white ; sporidia lanceolate, triseptate, constricted, nu- 

 cleate. — Sphceria hederce, Sow. t. 371,/. 5. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 278. 



On dead ivy leaves. Shere. (Dr. Capron.) 



