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to present nearly the same appearance on either side. Perithecia ap- 

 parently epiphyllous, but projecting almost equally on both surfaces of 

 the stroma. Asci oblong, distinct, containing several oblong septate 

 sporidia. The present species was marked as a Fhacidium by Dr. 

 lireville, but evidently merely from its external appearance. It has 

 the habit of the species in the division Depazca, but is, I think, fitly 

 placed in the present division. I have seen dried specimens only, 

 and cannot therefore say, whether it is found on dead or living leaves. 



B. Simple. 

 ***** SuPERFiciALES. Simple. Perithecia free hicorticaie, 

 seated on an effused villous suhiculum or altogelher superficial, 



Div. 17. Byssised/E. Perithecia glabrous ^ seated on a tomen- 

 tose suhiculum. 



107. >S'. aurdntiaf Pers. (orange SphcBria) ; perithecia gre- 

 garious subrotinid papillate oraiige-red emerging from the 

 effused suhiculum. Pers. Sgn. p. 68. Ic. 8)^ Desc. t. 11. /. 4, 

 5. Fr. Syst.Myc. v. 2. p. 440. El. 2. p. 91. .S'. aurea, 

 Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 47. Fl. Ed. p, 364. 



On rotten wood and decaying Puhjpori, as P. versicolor, scoticus, 

 sfjuamosiis. Not common. Ap\nn,Capt.Carmichacl. Newliston woods. 

 Messrs. Wauch and Greville. Duglesham, Klotzsch in H(foh. Herb. 

 Bungay, Mr. Stock.— \ have no doubt that Fries is quite right in his sus- 

 picion that Dr. Greville's S. aurea, is the S. aurautia, Pers., for though 

 I have no authentic specimens, Mr. Stock's plant (like that of Greville 

 on P. sfjuamosus) now before me so completely agrees with the figure 

 in the Sc. Crypt. Fl., that I feel myself at liberty to assume it as the 

 same. The perithecia are mostly scattered and in this case entirely 

 destitute of suhiculum, but here and there a few are collected together 

 upon a pale very thin suhicuhnn which might most easily be overlooked 

 unless attention were especially directed to the point. Captain Car- 

 iihchael's specimens exactly accord with the figure of Persoon. Those 

 of Klotzsch are api)arently scarcely mature and in consequence have 

 the perithecia immersed. 



108. >S'. rosella, A. Sc S. {rose- coloured Spha^ria) ; peritliecia 

 gregarious globoso-ovate papillate deep rose-red seated on a 

 paler tomeiitose suhiculum. Alb. ^ Seine. Consp. t. 7. /. 3. 

 Grev, Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 138. Fr. Syst. JSIyc. v. 2. /7. 441. 



On wood,2y^67t7>//o>y/,c'v:c. Not common. Apjiin, Cnpt.Carnuchael. 

 About Edinburgh, J)r. Grtvilk. Northamptonshire, but always bar- 

 ren, Itev. M. J. Utrh(hy.—The subicuhun in specimens before mc 

 varies from pale to deep rosc-rcd. 



100. .S'. fifjuila, Fr. (sun-burnt Spharia) ; perithecia grega- 

 rious globose firm papillate brown-black emerging from a i)er- 

 sistent brown tomentose suhiculuni. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 442. 

 Muug. wV Nest. ! n. 965. S. byssiseda, (S. 'Fade, Fung. Meek, 

 f. 70. >S'. byssiseda, Pers. Syn. p. 67. 



On rotten ^tick;:. Appin, Cajd. Cannichuth 



