232 FUNGI. [SphcBria. 



a fungus). Uterus confluent with the receptacle (Periihecium), 

 Sporidia generally contained in asci and arranged in one or more 

 rows. 



hi. Sph^ria. Ball. Sphseria. 



Perithecia rounded, entire, furnished at the rpex with a 



minute orifice. Asci converging, at length dissolving Name, 



from o(paiDrx, a sphere, 



A. CoMPorxD. 



* Peripherics. Perithecia more or less divergent^ generally 

 almost superficial cmd simply papillated, very rarely piercing the 

 stroma by an attenuated neck, 



Div. I. CoRDYCEPs. (from xop^oa^j a cluhy and caputs a head). 

 Club shaped, simple or branched, stipitate. 



* Perithecia pale, 



1. S. militdris, L. (iniUtary SphcEria) ; carnose orange-red, 



lioad-clavate tuberculated, stem equal. Bolt. t. 128. Sow. t. 



60. Purt. V. 3. p. 276. i. 23. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 323. Kl. I 



Fung. Germ. exs. n. 47. Clav. militaris, Lin. Sp. PI, 1562. 



With. V. 4. j9. 318. CI. granulosa, Bull. t. 496. b. 



In wood amongst moss, arising from dead pupae of insects, spiders* 

 eggs, &.C. Summer. Not common, but sparingly diffused through the 

 %vhole of England and Scotlantl. — A very curious Cladonia-Y\kQ 

 form occurred to Messrs. Klotzsch and Hooker at Kirriemuir, in turfy 

 spots. 



2. S. entomorrhiza, Dicks, (j'ound headed Insect Sphccria) ; 

 carnose, head subglobose brown, stem slender, sporidia oblong. 

 Dicks. Crypt. 1. p. 22. t. 3. /. 3. With. v. 4. p. 356. Pers. 

 Syn. p. 4. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 324. 



On dead larvse and pupae of insects. Very rare. Bulstrode, Light- 

 foot. Autumn. Edgefield, Norfolk. Bev. R. B. Francis. Apethorpe, 

 'Norths., May 17th, 1835, Rev. M. J. Berkeley.— K^ihe single specimen 

 with which I have been so fortunate as to meet according precisely with 

 one in Dr. Hooker's Herbarium, gathered by Mr. Francis, differs from 

 the figure of Dickson in having a larger elliptic head, immersed perithecia, 

 and a stouter stem, the following description will not be superfluous. 

 Head ^ of an inch long broadly elliptic quite distinct from the stem, 

 changing from chesnut to bright red brown, minutely dotted with the 

 ostiola, of a tough fleshy consistence nearly white within. Stem 2 

 inches high, 1 line thick nearly equal pale above, darker below, of the 

 same colour as the head, but slightly mottled, almost smooth, giving 

 out at the base numerous root-like filaments in my specimen attached 

 to a chrysalis, in Dr. Hooker's to a caterpillar. Perithecia completely 

 sunk in the flesh, much elongated, gradually tapering to the orifice 

 brown; their contents of the same colour consisting of very long flexuous 

 asci, containing a double moniliform row of very minute oblong but 

 not truncate sporidia, which when the asci are broken still partially 



