934 SPH^EIACET. 



*f Peridia siibglobose. 



2808. Capnodium sphaericum. Cooke. "Veronica 



Capuodium." 



Pycnidia.- — Seated on a mjcelinm of radiating, branched, 

 black threads, hemispherical, minute, rupturing irregularly in 

 lacinife ; stylospores oblong, uniseptate, hyaline. — Asteroma ve- 

 roniccp, Desm. Berh. exs. no. 193. 



AscoPHORE. — Aggregated or scattered, subglobose, irregular, 

 striate, small ; mouth fringed ; asci globose, containing eight 

 uniseptate, coloured sporidia. — Dothidea veronicce, Lib. exs. no. 

 173. 



On leaves of Veronica. Shere. (Dr. Capron.) 



This is not a good Capnodium, "but it certainly does not seem to bea Do- 

 thidea. Madame Libert describes the globose asci, which are absent in the 

 Asteroma of Desraazieres. Asci are certainly present in the mature plant, 

 as stylospores are in the early, or pycnidia, stage which corresponds to the 

 Asteroma. 



Gen. 368. BLOXAMIA, B. & Br. 



Peridium persistent below, very delicate above, evanescent, at 

 length excipuliform ; sporidia quadrate, generated in closely 

 packed tubes. — B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. 1854, p. 468. 



This is a curious and anomalous genus, which it is difficult to place. On 

 this account it had almost been forgotten, and, at the last moment, is inserted 

 here. 



2809. Bloxaxnia tYuncata. B.^\Br. " Truncate Bloxamia." 



Perithecia punctiform, often slightly elongated, depressed, 

 with vertical sides, firmer below and persistent, extremely deli- 

 cate, white and evanescent above. Hymenium consisting of 

 closely packed tubes, which produce a row of sub-quadrate 

 sporidia, -0001 in. wide -000125 in. long. — B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. 

 1854, t. xvi./. 17. CooJce.exs. ined. 



On dead elm. Feb. — Mar. Batheaston. 



