Sphcsria.l FUNGT. 249 



Sowerbij, Herb. King's Cliffe, Norths., Rev. 31. J. Berhehy.—lx\ the 

 early stage the stroma is white, which accords with Grcvillc's i)lant now 

 before me. His specimens, however, have not a distinct concep/aculum, 

 but they are evidently young, and I presume Fries has received the 

 perfect plant, and I therefore follow him. 



62. S. takola, Fr. {graft SphcEria) ; loosely circumscribed, 

 stroma cortical, peritliecia crowded in the centre, disc white, 

 ostiola even immersed punctiform. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 390. 



On oak branches. King's Cliffe, Norths. liev. 31. J. Berhelei/. 



63. S. profusa, Fr. {sooty Sphceria) ; peritliecia globose cir- 

 cumscribed with a variable black line, immersed in a broadly- 

 expanded snbicuhim, ostiola slightly prominent seated in a 

 minute dirty-white disc. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 2. p. 392. Scler. 

 Suec. ! 71. 11. 3Ioiiff. Sf Nest. ! n. 871. in part. 



On branches of llobinia Pseudacacia. Apethorpe, Norths, lieu. 

 M. J. Berkeley. — The groups of peritliecia are connected in the same 

 manner as in S. extensa Sf Jibrosa. 



64. S. dissepta, Fr. {chambered Spliceria) ; loosely circum- 

 scribed, perithecia scattered large saucer-shaped, ostiola erum- 

 pent somewhat united. Fr. Syst. BIyc. v. 2. p. 392. Scler. 

 Suec. ! 71. 224. S. Salimius, Sow. ! t. 2\6. 



On branches of trees. Soicerb//.— The plant of Sowerby, on apricot 

 grafts, which is referred doubtfully by Fries to »S'. leip/uemia, most cer- 

 tainly belongs to the present division, and so greatly resembles the 

 polymorphous S. dissepta, that 1 have no doubt it is one of its forms. 

 The scutelliform conceptacidum which is 1 \—2 lines broad is most 

 distinct elliptic or slightly flexuous from the confluence of two indivi- 

 duals ; in the centre is a single peritheciurn, rarely two, covered with a 

 dingy substance with a darker slightly prominent 05^/o///;« in the centre, 

 and a slender neck, separated from the conceptacidum by the loose wood- 

 coloured cortical stroma. 



Div. 11. OrtVALLATiE. {Named from the covcrcd '!^\\^in\Qi.) 

 Stroma formed of the hark without any proper conccptaculum, 

 jmsiulaform ; ostiola collected into a disc. 



Qii). S. coro7idta, Iloffui. {crown-lihc Sph(rria) ; peritliecia 

 rather irregular disposed in a circle, ostiola even (»btnse, at 

 first globose crowded, at length beaked. Iloffm. Vey. Crypt. 

 1. t. 5./. 4, 5. Ftlh. n. 1357. With. v. 4. p. 302. Schmidt. 3/yc. 

 Hef 2. t.\. f 14. Pint. V. 2 S; ^. n. 1090. Fr. Syst. 31 yc. 

 V. 2. p. 395. 



On drv branches of oak, dog rose and hawthorn. Appin, Coptcin 

 Carmich'ael. Kini;'s Clifle, Norths., Rev. 31. J. Jhr/ulr//. It has been 

 found also by Jitlhan cS' Rurtou. 



06. S. abirtis, Fr. (Jir-branch Sphcnia) ; immersed, str(Mua 

 thin dirty-wliite, perithecia ovate aggregat<s ostiola oblong even 

 thick collected into a disc. Fr. Syst. 3Iyc. v. 2. p. 39S. Sclrr. 

 Suec! n. 77. Cucurhdaria Pinastri, O'rev. Srf>t. Crypt. IV. 

 e. 50. cxcepti7ig the red jnrithccia which arc S. epispluena. See 

 Fr. El. 2. p. '79.) 



