SPH^EIACEI. 



92i 



On bark of pine. March. Wraxall. 



Forming little tufts ; porithecia globose, collapsed when dry, astomous, 

 clothed with a few short scattered hairs ; sporidia oblong, or subelliptic 

 ('0005 in.) uniseptate. Allied closely to S. chcetomium. — B.^ Br. 



Gen. 359. 



FYRENOFHORA, Fr. 



Fig. 399. 



Nucleus slowly formed, immersed 

 in a sclerotioid mass, Tvhich per- 

 forms the office of a peritliecium; 

 ostiolum at length slightly promi- 

 nent ; sporidia multiseptate. — Fr. 

 Berk. Out/.j). 402. (Fig. 399.; 



2785. Pyrenophora phaeocoxnes. Fr. " Bristly Pyrenophora." 



Scattered, jet black ; perithecia globoso-hemispherical. almost 

 mouthless, beset with erecto-divergent hairs; asci cylindrical; 

 sporidia oblong, obtuse, at first triseptate, constricted, at length 

 muriform, yellowish. — Fr. S.V.S. p. 398. Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 

 2lh,t. 6, /. 41. Fckl. exs. no. 798. Sj)h. phceocomes, Reh. Neom. t. 

 l,f.4. Fr.S.M.u.p.615. Fng.Fl.y. p. 276. Ann. X.H. no. 

 207, t. 11,/. 8. S. capillata, Grev. t. 69. 



On dead leaves of grasses. {Fig. 399.) 



Gen. 360. CERATOSTOMA, Fr. 



Perithecia soft, membranaceous ; 

 ostiolum subulate, rostrate; asci soon 

 disappearing ; sporidia oozing out 

 and forming a mass at the ostiolum. 

 —Berk. Outl.p. 402. {Fig. 400.) 



2786. Ceratostoxna caprinuxn. 



Fr. " Woolly Ceratostoma." 



Perithecia superficial, globose, vil- 

 lous, white; ostiola very long, sub- 

 ulate, black ; asci clavate ; sporidia 

 Fig. 400. simple, oozing out when mature and 



forming a globose mass at the ostio- 

 lum. — Fr. S. V.S. p. 396. Sphceria caprina, FL Dan. t. 1859, /. 2. 



Amongst rubbish. (^^9- 400. j 



