418 V SPHiERIA. 



"Ramulos crusta deformi, bullosa, nigra, ad 

 pollicis crassitiem obducit, Huic insident ubique 

 densissime innumerae sphsrulee, minores, irregula- 

 res, atro-nitentes, aslom© aut minutissime papil- 

 latcB, applaaatea 1. umbilicatjr, continentes gelati- 

 nam aibam conflatam e;x ascis clavatis. Crusts sub- 

 jacet cortex defiguratus arboris, nam cortex ramuli ' 

 extenditur ad iongitudinem pedaiem in nias»«m 

 spongiosam, x unc. crassam, versus ambitum ca- 

 vernuiis aliqijot irregularibu-; refertam, quarum pa- 

 rietibus interoe granula gummi adhairent &.c. " Ad 

 ramulos Prunorum omniiim languescenies, quarum mor- 

 bum lethalem efficit, in Carolina. (v. s») 



Tuberculum corticale a Cyniphe omnino for- 

 matum videtur, cui demum innascitur hxo Sphs- 

 ria admodum paradoxa. 



219» S. Faccinii, cj?spitosa, superficiali-innata, pe- 

 ritheciis subglobosis far«ilis astomis, primo vil- 

 losis, dein nudis. 



St Vaccinii. Sowerh* t. 373. /. i. statits senilis. Friesi 

 S. accuraulata. Pers^ 1 ined. (Scler, Suec. exs. zi. 

 ^r* Moug. I & Nestl. n. 665. ) 



Csspites minores, subrotundi,' ssepius irregula- 

 riter confluentes, vere superficiali — innatcel Peri- 

 thecia minuta, coacervata, subconnata, passim ob 

 mutuam pressionera oblonga, aterrima, opaca, asto- 

 xna ; villo in junioribus Sclerotii — 1. Dothidei- 

 formibus evidenti, in adultis evanescente, intus al- 

 bido-far6la. In ramis Vaccinii Vitis idece vivis ; sed 

 in emortuis primum fructificat. Bieme, vere. (v. v.) 



220. S. Nidutcty cffspitosa, superficiali-innata, peri- 

 theciis stipatis ovatis acutis glabris atria» 



SowerJf^ t. 394« /.2. 



C^spites minuti, sublanceolati, stromate proprio 

 vix ullo. Perithecia snbconnata papillata ? An hu- 

 jus loci. Reperta in Anglia ad radices fabarum lo^ 

 cis excavatis. (v. ic.) 



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