SphcBria.-] ruNGi. 255 



88. >S. melogrdmma, Bull, (brownish coi^flaent SphcBrici) ; 

 roundish obconic blackish-brown, peritliecia confluent slightly- 

 prominent. Pers.l Syn.p.V^, 31oug, ^^ Nest. ! n. 21^, Fr. 

 Si/st. Myc. V. 2. p. 420. Scler. Succ. / ?i. 382, 441. *S^. rugosa, 

 var. 2. Purt. v, 3. p. 289. Variolaria melogramma. Bull. 

 t. 492. f. 1. 



On dead branches of the beech spreading in regular series for many 

 inches. Soicerhij ! Herb. Purlon. Oundle, ^"orths., Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley. 



89. >S'. elongdta, Fr. (elongated conjiaent Sphceria) ; black, 

 stroma very long- ambient effused, perithecia at first immersed, 

 then erumpent subcaespitose globose marked with a depressed 

 ring round the papillseform ostiola. Fr. Obs. 1. ;;. 175. Syst. 

 Myc. V. 2. p. 422. Scler. Siiec. ! n. 33. 3Ioug. S)- Nest. I n. 875. 

 Cucurbitaria elongata, Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 195. 



On branches of various trees and shrubs of the Order LegitminoscB. 

 !Not unfrequent about Edinburgh on Furze. Messrs. Wauyh ^" GreviUe, 

 who also find var. /3. simplex, Scler. Suec. ! ii. 231. — " Sporidia oblong 

 yellow compressed, marked with 3 — 4 transverse striae and«one which 

 is longitudinal." Grev. I. c. 



90. S.fidigijwsa, Pers. (dirty brow?i Sphceria) ; somewhat 

 effused erumpenti-innate perithecia confluent globose stuffed 

 jnouthless dingy-brown-black. Pers. Syn, p. 52. Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. V. 2. p. 423. 



On Willow branches. Sent by Purton to Sowerby. Apethorpe, 

 ^Norths., Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — "Remarkable on account of the interior 

 bark swelling under the black, very thin, true siroyna, into a thick waxy 

 olive-yellow siibiculuin. Perithecia unequal, sometimes free, sometimes 

 confluent, nearly even, opaque at length pierced with a simple pore." 

 Fr. I. c. — Specimens markeil by Persoon prove to be .S". elongata on 

 the bark of a Robinia. S.falifjinosa, Moug. & Nest., is aS". gue?-cufnn. 

 Schwein. Fries doubts whether it may not be the young state of 

 Cenangium fuliginosinn, and tlicrc is great reason to believe that his 

 surmise is correct. 



91. >S'. DotJiidca, Aioug. (Polhidea-lihe Sphceria^; subrolund 

 erumpenti-innate, stroma pale brown, perithecia globose some- 

 Avhat immersed stuffed with while jellv. Fr. Syst. Myc. r. 2. 

 p. 424.— b. Rosa^ Scler. Suec. ! oi. 308. Fr. El. 2.* p. 86. 

 Moug. SfNest..' n. 971. Xylo'ma RoscCy Johnst. ! FL Berw. 

 2. p. 140. 



b. On living rose stems. Extremely common. — Forming irregular 

 tubercles covered with the epidermis which is cracked with irregular 

 flexuous fissures. 



DlV. 15. Seriat.i:. Perithecia disposed in parallel rotes. 



92. >S'. fdicina, Fr. (bracken Spharia) ; subinnato parallel 

 eonfluent shining black, bursting forth l)y paralhd cracks, stroma 

 black, perithecia connate disposed in row s. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 

 o. ;j. 427. Sckr. Suec. ! n. 48. Johnst. Fl. Berw, 2. p. 119. 



