68 NEW Bl;ITI8H FUNGI. 



On dead twigs of ash. Darenth, xipril. 



Forming blackened irregular patches, seated beneath the cuticle, 

 which is loosened, somewhat inflated, and at length fugacious. 

 Sporidia (-0004 X -00015 in.) •011--012 X '004 m.m. 

 Sphaezia (Diapoirthe) Laschii. JSTie. 



Stroma broadly effused, innate, blackening the bark ; perithecia 

 nestling in the parenchyma of the bark, globose, attenuated into an 

 abrupt neck ; ostiola rather thick ; asci clavate, sessile ; sporidia 

 fusiform, 4 nucleate, then 4 celled, hyaline. — Nhe. Pyr. Germ., p. 

 292. Fckl. Sym. Myc, p. 208. Cooke Fungi Britt., No. 682. • 



On twigs of Euonymus Europceus. Mickleham. 



Sporidia (-OOOS-'OOOS X -00011-00015 in.) -008--014 X -003- 

 •004 m.m. 



Sphaezia (Diapozthe) occulta. Nke. 



Perithecia covered by the thin black stroma, globose, black ; 

 ostiola exserted, sometimes much elongated, terete, acute ; asci 

 narrowly clavate ; sporidia oblong or narrowly elliptical, attenuated 

 at each end, quadrinucleate, hyaline. — Nke. Pyr. Germ. p. 266. 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc, p. 210. Fckl. Exs., No. 622. 



On scales of fir cones. Eastbourne (C. J. MuUer). 

 Sphaezia cetzaziicola, Nyl. 



Perithecia somewhat gregarious, minute, black, rather prominent. 

 Asci octosporous, sporidia oblong, J -3 septate, colourless. Para- 

 physes none. Nyl. M SS. in litt. 



On Cetraria Islandica. Braemar [Eev. J. 31. Cromhie). 



The specimen is deposited in the Herbarium of the British 

 ]Museum. » 



Sphaezia Ezyoniae. Fold. 



Perithecia nestling beneath the epidermis, at length nearly free, 

 gregarious, very minute, globoso-depressetl, papillate, black ; asci 

 oblong, attenuated at the base, obtuse ; sporidia biseriate, oblong, 

 or somewhat clavate, unequally bicellular, the upper cell large, the 

 lower obconical, obtuse, hyaline. — Fckl. Sym. Myc, p. 112. Fckl. 

 Exs. Ao.2318. 



On stems of Bryonia dioica. Shere, 1873. [Dr. Capron.) 



Sporidia (-0007 in.), •015--017 m.m. long. 



Sphaezia (Fleospoza) culmozum. Coolie. 



Perithecia scattered, erumpent, globose, black, with a papillate 

 ostiolum; asci clavate, sporidia elongated elliptical, triseptate, one 

 cell transversely divided, pale brown, — Cooke Fungi Britt., No. 

 694. 



On dead culms of grasses, straw, &c. Irstead. 



The sporidia are much more characteristic and distinct than in 

 many of the forms associated under Pleospora. This is different 

 from Splceria infectoria, Fckl. (" Handbook," No. 2693). Sporidia 

 (■0012--0015 in.) •025--035 m.m. long. 



Sphaezella ditzicha. Fr. ' 



Gregarious, seated on grey spots ; perithecia hemispherical, 

 fcmall, black, mixed with a few erect hairs; asci fasciculate, oblong, 



