246 FUNGI. [Sjyhceria. 



ostiola hemisplierical rugose hollowed out. Dec. Fl. Fran. 2. 

 p. 285. S.Jioriformis, Sow.! t. 297. 



On bark of the Hornbeam. Hainault Forest. Soiverb!/. — The plant 

 of Sowerby is referred by Fries in his Index Alphaheticus to S. lailli- 

 aria, bat an inspection of o:iginal specimens compared with the figure 

 which is very characteristic, shows clearly that it is the plant of De 

 Candolle cited above, with which it agrees even to the peculiar matrix. 

 Perithccia ovate-oblong, with a rather long neck, surmounted by the 

 beautifully radiato-rugose more or less deeply umbilicate ostiola. 



51. S. fimeti, Pers. (compound dung Sphceria) ; crust-like 

 immersed black, perithecia oblong at length connate, ostiola 

 elongated, conical, emergent. Pers. Syn. p. 64. Fr. Sysf. 

 31yc. V. 2. jy. 373. Seler. Suec. ! n. 269. 



On horse and cow-dung. Appin. Captain Cc'n«2c/za^/, who appears 

 to have found it abundantly. 



52. >S'. veldta, Pers. (veiled SphcEria) ; broadly effused thin, 

 perithecia scattered immersed^ covered with a black membrana- 

 ceous crust, ostiola erumpent. Pers. Syn. p. 32. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. 2. p. 375. Scler. Suec. ! n. 225. — b. emersa, Soiv, 

 t. 372. /. 10. 



On fallen branches of lime.— b. Sowerhij. " Surrounding the branches, 

 and grov/ing in the inner bark, perforating the epidermis with the 

 ostiola and at length throwing it off. Perithecia minute, erect, ovato- 

 globose, sometimes solitary, sometimes irregularly aggregate, scarcely 

 disposed in circles, by no means stipate, nestling in the bark itself, 

 covered with a thin patchy stroma, which is tuberculated with the 

 perithecia : ostiola erumpent, irregular, opaque." Fr. I. c. 



*** Amphipheric/e. Compound, perithecia attenuated and 

 elongated above, disposed in circles, convergent, surrounded by a 

 spurious jjersisfent stroma. 



Div. 9. CiRCuiMscRiPT/E. (Named from the stroma being in- 

 cluded in a proper conceptaculum.) Stroma formed from the 

 bark contained i?i an entire (not dimidiate) black conceptacidum 

 ivhich covers it on all sidcA and is adnate at the base. Perithecia 

 irregularly disposed in circles piercing the conceptaculum by their 

 rather long converging necks. Ostiola rather long. 



53. >S'. Prundstri, Pers. (sloe-tree Sphceria); lentiform, stroma 

 formed of the bark, ostiola elongated crowded 4 — 6-angled 

 sulcate subdivergent. Pers. Syn. p. 37. Moug. ^ Nest. I 

 n. 378. Hook. Scot. 2. p. 6. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 380. 

 Scler. Suec. ! n. 226. Stromatosphceria prunastri, Grev. FL 

 Ed. p. 358. 



On branches of the Sloe. Common. — Bursting forth transversely. 



54. S, stelhddta, Fr. (star-mouthed Sphceria) ; subrotund 

 immersed, stroma white or dirty-white circumscribed, ostiola 

 short ovato-globose radiato-stellate. Fr. Syst. Myc. v, 2. /?. 38 1. 

 Scler, Suec. ! n. 442. Johnst. Fl. Bene. 2. p. 122. 



