Sphceria.] FUNGI. 



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containing two sporidiola and conclude that when fresh or in an early 

 stage of growth they are septate. 



123. S. j)fcttdsca, Berk, (orange-lead Spha;ria) ; scattered, 

 perithecia orange globose confluent with the subobtuse ostioluni, 

 base immersed. 



On the soft wet decayed stump of a maple which had been hroken off. 

 Winter, rvockingham Forest, Norths. Rev. 31. J. Btrhdcij.— Peri- 

 thecia globose, but tapering above into the ostiolum, which varies some- 

 what in length, so as to have a slightly ovate appearance, immersed in 

 the soft white wood almost to the base of the ostiolum, of the same 

 colour as Peziza auraniia, with now and then a few indistinct fila- 

 ments. Asci broad above, like those of the following species. Spo- 

 ridia oblong, divided into four articulations each containing a nucleus. 

 I cannot but conceive this a distinct species, though, as a general rule, 

 too much stress ought not to be laid on microscopic characters ; but, 

 added to difference in habit, they ought certainly to have their weight. 



124. S, affinis, Grev. {red HwutJdess Spl/ceria) ; scattered 

 globose persistent even orange mouthless base filamentous 

 wliitish. Grev. ! So. Crypt. Fl. t. 180./. 1. Fr. EL 2. p. 93. 



On Stiqonema atrovirens {Cornicularia puhcscens, Ach.). Appm, 

 Captain Carmichael.—^ very interesting species which with great pro- 

 bability was presumed by its discoverer to be what is figured as tne 

 fructifi'cation of its matrix in Eng. Bat. I see no reason for doubting 

 with Fries that this is a Sphceria. Septate sporidia do not, I believe, 

 occur in true Peziza;^ and the asci are broader in S. tubceformis. 



125. >S'. sanguinea, Witli. (Jjlocd-cohured Sphceria) ; scat- 

 tered soft very small perithecia ovate papillary blood-red. 

 With. ed. 3, v. 3. p. 473. (from Sibth.) Sibth. FL Oi\ p. 404. 

 Bolt. t. 121. Sow. I t. 254. Part. ! v. 2 ^- 3. 7i. 1519. Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 453. Scler. Sued ii. 264. Grev. So. 

 Crypt, in. t. 175. /. 1. Baxt.! Ox. exs. n. 75. 



On wood and sticks, very common— Fries' specimens arc far more 

 strongly papillary than any of British growth that 1 have seen. I 

 have found, but sparingly, on branches of elm, a nearly white variety; 

 and Fries informs us that he has received extremely pale specimens 

 from Weinniann. " Sporidia globose." 



125. S. cpisphccria, Tode, (red parasitic Sphcnia) ; grega- 

 rious soft very small blood-red, peritliccia somewliat compress- 

 ed collapsing, i)apilla convexo-oblong. Todc^ P\iug. Mack. /. 

 89. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 454. Schr. Sacc.f n. 2G5. 

 EL 2. p. 93. Gnv. So. Crypt. FL t. 175. /'. 2.—;^. mcd'.a ; 

 aggregate, perithecia sul)globose llaccid snljpapillary. S. san- 

 guinea. (3. media, Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p. 453. Cucinbitaria 

 pinastri, GrciK Sc. Crypt. PL t. 50, (in part). S. Furtoni, 

 Grev. ! Syn. Gen. cS' Spec. ;>. 23. 



On various S/dtf/rias, but especially .S. Stigma. Common. — '* SpO' 

 ridia oval-oblong." In this ca>c again I have seen no liriti.di speci- 

 mens of the typical form exactly according cither with the figure of Tode, or 

 the specimens of Fries, as regards the papilla. U\^ (». media exactly 



