874 SPHiEKIACEI. 



liim, grey within. — Fr. S.M. ii.p. 493. Fries, exs. no. 239. Eng. 

 Fl.x. p. 271. 



On walnut twigs. 



Fuckel regards this simply as a Dqylodia. 



2620. Sphaeria lonicerae. Sorv. " Honeysuckle Sphaeria." 



Grcgcarious, ernmpent ; perithecia globose, nearly free, thin, 

 black, soon torn and cup-shaped ; ostiolum simple ; sporidia 

 uniseriate, colourless, elliptical, endochrome tripartite. — Sow. 

 t, 393,/. 6. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 492. Fries, exs. no. 349. Eng. Fl. v.p. 

 271. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 59,/. 115 (not Fckl. Sym. Myc.) 

 Cooke exs. no. 262. 



On honeysuckle. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Sporidia (•0004--0006 in.) -Ol-'OIS m.m. 



2621. Sphaeria obliterans. B. d; Br. " Bleached-fir 



Sphaeria." 



Perithecia scattered, half covered by the bleached fibres of 

 the matrix, collapsing, astomous ; asci cylindrico-clavate ; spori- 

 dia uniseriate, obovate, triseptate, septa at length obliterated. — 

 B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 890, 1. 11,/. 34. 



On bare fir-poles. Mar. Batheaston. 



Sporidia ('0007 in.) "0177 m.m. Septa at length obliterated, their position 

 being still indicated by a slight constriction. 



** 



Coprophilous. 



Fig. 394. 



2622. Sphaeria Tjovilla. Cooke. " Tailed cow-dung Sphaeria." 



Perithecia scattered, sub-globose, semi-immersed, black; 

 ostiola prominent, pierced ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, long, flexu- 

 ous, containing numerous nuclei; each extremity furnished 

 with a flexuous hair-like appendage, half the length of the spori- 

 dium, hyaline, greenish. ^ 



On cow dung. Aug. Shere. (Dr. Capron.) 



This curious species resembles in some respects the CercopTiora mirdbilis of 

 Fuckel (Sym, Myc. p. 245 t. vi. f. 20), but Dr. Capron is decidedly of opinion 

 that the above sporidia are quite mature, and never become ovate, opaque- 

 brown, with hyaline appendages, as in that species. Sporidia, without ap- 

 pendages ("002 in.) -Oo m.m long. {Fig. 394.) 



