SPH^EIACEI. 879 



Growing on white bleached spots ; perithecia globose, the upper half free, 

 opaque, not shining ; ostiolum small, papillseform ; asci linear-clavate ; 

 sporidia biseriate ("00120 in.) "03 m-m-long, oblong-elliptic, at length trisep- 

 tate, but not torulose. Yery near to S. hypotephra, but there are no cinereous 

 spots, the perithecia are half exposed, and the sporidia larger. — B. tt Br. 



2635. Sphaeria apiculata. Chirr. " Buried railing Sphseria." 



Perithecia large, subglobose, deeply buried ; ostiola somewhat 

 gaping ; sporidia olive-brown, straight or slightly curved, bisep- 

 tate, with a hyaline tip (not S. apiculata Wallr, Fl. Germ. p. 778, 

 nor F del. exs.no. 918}. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii.^?. 326, t. 58,/. 

 96. Cooke, exs. no. 272. 



On railings. 



Curious both in habit and fruit. The perithecia are completely and deeply 

 buried in the wood, and are sometimes scatterfed, sometimes in groups ; the 

 perithecia seem eventually to throw off the wood above the ostiola, leaving 

 deep depressions in the surface of the wood. Sporidia uniseriate, oli^^e- 

 brown, straight or very slightly curved, biseptate, each furnished with a hya- 

 line tip, which is shut off from the rest of the sporidiura by one of the septa ; 

 length of sporidia ('001 in.) '025 m.m. — F.C. 



2636. Sphaeria baciUata. Coolie. " Long-spored sunken 



fcph£Bria." 



Perithecia scattered, ovate, immersed, at length the upper 

 portion more or less exposed, black ; ostiolum conical, erumpent, 

 pierced ; sporidia linear, straight, obtuse at the ends, the length 

 of the ascus, multiseptate, hyaline, yellowish. — Sphceria longi- 

 spora, C apron, MSS. 



On decorticated rotten sticks. Shere. (Dr. Capron.) 



Sometimes only the ostiolum is visible above the surface of the matrix, 

 sometimes nearly one third of the perithecium is emergent, mostly following 

 the course of the fibres. The sporidia are ('0076 in.) "2 m.m. long, divided 

 by septa throughout their entire length. This certainly does not accord 

 with the brief characters of Currey's S. longispora, neither does it belong to 

 the same section. 



2637. Sphaeria anserina. Pert. " "Wavy Sphseria." 



Perithecia ovate, immersed, raising the wood into minute 

 papilla; ostiola obtuse, erumpent; asci sublinear ; sporidia 

 elliptic, uniseriate, uniseptate. — Pers. Ic. ^' Desc.t.l,f.8. Fr. 

 S.M.u.p.^80. B. ^Br. Ann.N.H. no. 889. 



On dry wood. Shrewsbury. 



The surface of the wood is raised by the perithecia into little waves. 

 Sporidia COOOS-'OOl) •02-*02o m.m., resembling the common type of 

 Dip>lodia. 



The S. anserina of Eng. Fl. v. p. 268, is a Sphceropsis (B. & Br. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 623), probably a stylosporous condition of the above. 



