882 SPHJ]:"RIACEI. 



Perithocia •with the base sometimes adnate to the wood, and leaving a 

 circuhir depression when detached, piercinp^ through the inner bark, and 

 just through the outer j the ostiola fall off with a circumscissile fissure, 

 sometimes the perithecia may be stripped off' with a fragment of the inner 

 bark. Sporidia (•0005-*0(J0Gin.) •012o-"015 m.m. long, biseptate, trinucleate, 

 colourless, the outer membrane and septa sometimes iuvisible- 



2645. Sphaezia verecunda. Curr. " Minute eunken 



Sphaeria." 



Perithecia siibglobose or conical, very small, with a pointed 

 or nipple-shaped ostiolum, which just penetrates the outer bark. 

 Sporidia pale brown, with 5 (rarely 6) transverse septa, and 1-3 

 longitudinal septa, constricted at each septum, mostly uniseriate 

 and overlapping, occasionally biseriate. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxiv. 

 t. 2i)J. 3. B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1099. 



On sticks. October. Batheaston. 

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



2646. Sphaeria blepharodes. B. cfc Br. " Depressed twig 



Sphceria." 



Perithecia covered, depresso-globose ; ostiola twice as long ; 

 asci clavate ; sporidia biseriate, hyaline, fusiform. — B. ^' Br. Ann. 

 I^.H.no.978,t.l7,f.Sl. 



On twigs of Acer j^seudo-platanus. Mossburnford. 



Completely covered by the cuticle ; perithecia globose, depressed; ostiola 

 piercing the cuticle, twice as long ; asci clavate ; sporidia biseriate, hyaline, 

 fusiform ('0005 in.) '0127 m.m. long. 



*^ Endocaul(E. 



2647. Sphaeria spiculosa. Pers. " ShiniDg patch Sphaeria." 



Effused, immersed, black; perithecia globose; ostiola very 

 slender, long, round, erumpent; sporidia narrowly almond- 

 shaped, acuminate, colourless, quadrinucleate, then quadripar- 

 tite.— i^r. S.M.ii.^J. 369. Fries, exs. no. 307. Eng.Fl. y.p. 245. 

 Cooke exs. no. oSl. Curr. Linn. Tra/^s. xxii. ^. 47,/. 111. Fckl. 

 exs. no. 957. Mamiania spiculosa, DeNot. Schenia,p. 37. Euportlie 

 spiculosa, Nke, Fyr. Germ. 



On willows and herbaceous stems. 



 var. pulla. Nke. Sperm atia oblong-lanceolate, with 1-2 

 nuclei ; simple, hyaline. — Fhonia hederce, De&m. exs. no. 350. 

 Fckl exs. no. 1720. 



