272 FUNGI. [SphcBria. 



immersed amongst numerous paraphyses, and, according to Montagne, 

 in the forthcoming work of Fries on the Species of Fungi is to form a 

 new genus Saccotheciiim. — S. Arbuti, Sow. t. 370. /. 0, referred by 

 Fries to his S. arbuticola, is Phacidium Vaccinii. 



165. KerricBy Berk. {Japan -Corchorus SphcBria) ; peri- 

 thecia scattered numerous black opaque very minute globose 

 mouthless, within white at length grey. >S'. Corchoriy Desm. ! 

 PL Crypt, w. 712. 



On dead shoots of Kerria Japonica. Winter — Summer. Ape- 

 thorpe. Cotterstock, Norths., Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — This, like the 

 last, in a revision of the genus, must be separated from Sphceria^ and 

 probably may enter into the at present scarcely adopted genus Diplodia, 

 The sporidia, which are not contained in asci, are septate and resemble 

 very strongly those of Trichothecium roseum, but are, as it aj)pears to 

 me, rather broader. My specimens were gathered in the middle of 

 INiay, and though still filled with a grumous mass, have no distinct 

 sporidia. On the same branch I found the perit/iecia of some minute 

 individuals which I could not otherwise distinguish, filled with minute 

 oblong sporidia, with about three septa, exactly like those of Vermi- 

 cularicB. The plant deserves investigation in its several stages of 

 growth. 



166. S. Taxi, Sow, {yeiv-Ieaf SphcBria) ; gregarious, covered 

 with the epidermis which becomes grey, perithecia subimmersed 

 convex black at length piercing the epidermis by a pore. Sow. ! 

 t. 394. /. 6. Ft. Obs. v. 1. p. 183. Syst, Myc. v. 2. p. 500. 

 Scler. Sued 7i. 22. Cryptosphmria Taxi, Grev. Sc. Crypt. 

 FL t. 13. 



On branchlets and leaves of Xq.\\\ Common. 



167. >S'. atrovirens, A. & S. {greenish-black Sphceria^ ; 

 scattered, at first greenish then blackish, perithecia somewhat 

 immersed globose and ovate, disc erumpent rugulose at length 

 torn. — a. Visci, Alb. S^- Schw. Consp. t. 2. y. 1. Sch. in Kunz. 

 Myc. Heft. 2. U\. f. 2. Moug. ^ Nest. I n. 486. Fr. Syst, 

 Myc. V. 2. p. 501. — (3. Buxi ; scattered in quincunxes greyish- 

 black, perithecia globose slightly prominent, disc covered de- 

 pressed white at length erumpent naked. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. 

 p. 501. S. Buxi, Dec. FL Franc, t. 6. p. 146.— 7. Riisci ; 

 perithecia very numerous punctiform glaucous or bluish-black 

 rendering the matrix pale. Fr. FL 2. p. 103. Cryptosphceria 

 glauco-punctato, Grev. FL Ed. p. 362. 



a. On Misletoe which has perished in the winter, sometimes covering 

 the whole plant. Rockingham Forest. Kev. M. J. Berkeley. — /3. On 

 box leaves. Common. Splitting the epidermis by its protrusion 

 into stellate laciniae. — 7. On dead leaves of Ruscus aculeatus. Slate- 

 ford. Dr. Greville. Sent by Mr. Baxter to Mr. Purton. There are 

 also specimens in Sowerby's Herbarium. — Two distinct forms of /3. 

 occur. The one with a white disc when the epidermis is burst, and ellip- 

 tic sporidia, the other to which specimens from Dr. Greville gathered at 

 Durham are referrible, with a blackish disc and minute oblong sporidia 



