324 NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 



perithecia rugulose, dark brownish -black, shortly conical ; 

 ostiola obtuse ; asci elongato-cylindrical ; sporidia 8 ovate, 

 simple, or with a nucleus, opaque, black, surrounded by gelatin, 

 •001 X -0004 in. 



On horse dung, Terrington St. Clements, 1874. On rabbits' 

 dung. Kings Lynn, 1875. 



61. Sphaeria (Soirdaria) Equoxum. Winter. Sord. p. 13, t. 1. fi{i- 2. 

 Coprolepa Equorum, Fckl. Symb. Mycol. p. 240. Sphseriacei 



Britannici ii. No. 57. Cooke Fungi, Britt. ii., 241-2. 



Perithecia scattered, in a thin subcoriaceous crust-like stroma on 

 the surface of the matrix, covered with a dark brown villosity; 

 ostiola black, somewhat conical ; asci cylindrical, octosporous ; 

 sporidia uniseriate, ovate, or oblong, black, simple, surrounded by a 

 gelatinous envelope, "0007 X "OOOS in. 



On horse dung. North Wootton, Shrewsbury. 



Grevillea vol. iii., t. 42, %. 7. — a, section of fungus enlarged ; 

 5, sporidia ; c, ascus and paraphysis. 



62. Sphaeria paxmeliarum. n. sp. 



Superficial perithecia, small, black, crowded, somewhat shining, 

 smooth ; ostiola minute but distinct, papilla^form ; sporidia eight, 

 triseptate, elongated, somewhat constricted, pale brown, usually 

 uniseriate, rarely 4-septate, 001 X '0005 in. 



Growing parasitically upon Parmelia saxattlis, on a living spruce 

 fir tree, Dolgelly, North Wales. June 22, 1875 (Eev. W. A. 

 Leighton). 



Plate 62^ fig. viii.— 1, natural size ; 2, asci ; 3, sporidia. 



63. Sphaeria (Diaporthe) resecans. 2Vke. Nit schlce Pyren.^ Germ. 



p. 314. SplKpriacel Brit, ii., No. 43. 



Elongated, bursting through the bark longitudinally ; perithecia, 

 minute, globose, or slightly depressed ; ostiola very small, short ; 

 asci clavate or oblong, octosporous ; sporidia biseriate, obtusely 

 fusiform, straight, hyaline, bipartite, 2-4 septate, somewhat con- 

 stricted, -0004 in. X -0001 in. 



On Syringa vulgaris. Terrington St. Clements, 1874. 



64. Sphaeria (Diaporthe) pinophylla. n. sp. 



Perithecia scattered, sometimes two or three in a group, seated 

 beneath a widespreading black crust, immersed in the. matrix; 

 ostiola elongated, abruptly truncate at the apex ; asci -001 in. 

 long ; sporidia biseriate, hyaline, acute, quadrinucleate, then uni- 

 septate, '007 x -0002 in. 



On decaying fir needles (Pinus sylvestris), Belmont, Hereford. 

 May, 1875. 



Plate 62, fig. vii. — 1, natural size ; 2, a perithecium magnified ; 

 3, ascus ; 4, sporidia. 



