No. 25.] [September, 1874. 



(Sr^Jtiitlea, 



A QUARTERLY RECORD OP CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 

 By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Continued from Vol. 2, Page 181.) 



415. Sphaeropsis pulchella. B. & C— Peritheciis in sti-omate 

 communi circiuautibus ; sporis fusiforinibus brevibus hyalinis tri- 

 nucleatis. 



On branches of Rhus copallina. Car. Inf. No. 2951. 

 Perithecia minute, arranged round the margin of the black 

 stroma ; sporopbores slender ; spores shortly fusiform, trinucleate, 



415 (bi.s). Sphsezopsis seminalis. B. & C. — Peritheciis sparsis ap- 

 planatis ; sporis oblongis. 



On seeds of water melon. Car. Inf. No. 5034. 



Perithecia scattered, brownish, flattened ; spores oblong, with 

 one side not so much curved, -006 long, ^ or ^ as much wide, 

 , granular within. Quite distinct from the two species of Phoma 

 which are found on water melon seeds. 



416. Sphaeropsis persicina. B. & C. — Peritheciis minutis nitidis 

 ocellatis ; sporis oblongis jDedicellatis. 



On twigs of peach. Pennsylvania. No. 3422. 



Scattered, shining, covered with the black cuticle, which is white 

 in the centre ; spores oblong, seated on a short pedicel, -0006 long, 

 about 1 or ^ as much wide, with one or two nuclei. 



416 (bis). Sphaeropsis bzunneola. B. Sf C. — Peritheciis epider- 

 mide brunneola tectis hysteriiformibus ; sporis breviter subfusifor- 

 mibus. 



On twigs of Smilax rotundifolia. New England, Sprague. No. 

 5269. 



Perithecia scattered, covered with the brown cuticle, sometimes 

 ,^very distinct and darker ; hysteriiform ; spores shortly subfusiform, 

 ^'0004 long, often broader at one end. 



' — 417. Sphaeropsis uvarum. B. Sf C. — Peritheciis innumeris hyali- 

 '-^' nis, centro nigris ; sporis breviter cymbfeformibus. 

 '"^ On Scuppernong grapes. Car. Inf. No. 4031. 



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