260 FUNGI. [Sphceria. 



110. S. bi/ssiseda, Tode, {greyish hyssoid Sphceria) ; peri- 

 tliecia scattered depresso-globose firm papillate cinereous seated 

 on a grey-brown interrupted fibrous subiculum. Tode^ I. c. f. 

 69. Fr. Syst. Myc. v, 2. p. 442. Grev. Fl. Ed, p. 363. >S'. 

 mammosa, With. v. 4. p. 360. Purt.f v. 2. Sf 3. w. 1085. t. 22. 

 S. papulosa^ Sow. t. 236. S. aquila^ Johnst. Fl. Berw. v. 2, 

 p. 124. 



On wood, sticks, &c. Apparently not uncommon. — This and the 

 foregoing species are pronounced by Fries to be "bene distinctse." 

 They appear to me to run very much into one another ; the present 

 being frequently entirely enveloped in the subiculum and not merely in- 

 sident, nor is it by any means always scattered: while S. aquila^ if 

 Klotzsch be right in referring Carmichael's specimens to that species, 

 has them sometimes seated on a thin subiculum. Specimens of S. 

 aquila from Mougeot, exactly accord with the common state of the 

 present species ; his published specimens have the perithecia very much 

 smaller. The degree of obtuseness or acuteness of the papillce also 

 appears to me to vary. There is an allied species in Carmichael's col- 

 lection marked S. ossea, n. s. There are but three perithecia, and con- 

 sequently I have not thought it advisable to draw up a character ; they 

 appear to be entirely destitute of an ostiohim and one of the three, 

 which is more than a line broad, has a decided umbilicus at the apex ; 

 the subiculum is looser and coarser than that of S. aquila or S. byssi- 

 seda. 



111. S.tristis, Tode, {jet-black by ssoid Sphceria) ; perithecia 

 crowded globose punctato-rugulose collapsed mouthless black 

 seated on a strigose subiculum. Tode, Fung. Meek. f. 67. 

 Pers. Ic. et Descr. t. 12. /. 5, 6. Fr. Syst. 3Ii/c. v. 2. p. 444. 



Scler. Suec. ! ii. 386. Purt. MSS. (S. fusca, Alb. S)- Schwein, 

 p. 44. 



/3. On sticks. Moreton Hall, Wore, Purton. Southwick, Norths., 

 Rev. 31. J. Berkeley. — My specimens and those of Purton differ from 

 the common form in not collapsing ; and are doubtless /3. fusca, Alb. 

 and Schw. The whole at first sight resembling one of the larger Hel- 

 minthosporia. Perithecia minute. Sporidia oblong, sometimes slightly 

 curved, consisting of four articulations, the two terminal ones small and 

 pellucid, the two central ones many times longer, opaque. 



Div. 18. ViLLOS^. Perithecia clothed ivith persistent down. ^^ 



112. S. ovi?m, Pers. {fleecy Sphcerici) ; perithecia subglo- 

 bose clothed with dirty white mucedinous down naked at the 

 base, ostiolum papillate at length black. Pers. Syn. p. 1\. 

 Fr. Syst.3Iyc. v. 2.p. 446. Scler. Sued n. 149. Purt, MSS. 

 S. 7iivea, Sow. ! t. 219. 



On rotten stumps, &c. Not uncommon. Easily known by the 



* Care must be taken not to refer to this division species which are downy- 

 only in an early stage, as S. serpens, &c. 



