156 BRITISH FUNGI. 



Sporidia (-0004 X -000075 in.) -Oil X -002 m.m. Spermatia 

 (•0002-00025 X -00005 in.) -005--006 X -0015 m.m. 



Sphaeria (Villosae) felina. Fckl. " Fuckel's Hairy Sphaeria." 



Perithecia scattered, globose, everywhere covered with erect hairs, 

 black ; ostiola truncate, conical, short. Asci broad. Sporidia cla- 

 vato-falciform ; conidia brown, pentagonal or doliiform, concatenate, 

 springing from flexuons horizontal threads. — Fckl. Fungi. Rhen., 

 No. 945. Berk. £ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1332, t. xx./. 23. Lep- 

 to.y>ora Felina. Fckl. Sym. Myc, p. 144. 



On Rubus. Mar. 



Sporidia (-0025 in.) -065 m.m. long ; conidia (-001--002 in.) 

 •025--050 m.m. long. 

 Sphaeria (Villosae) cupulifera. B. ${ Br. u Cup-bearing Sphseria." 



Perithecia conical, obtuse, at length collapsed, delicately rugulose, 

 shining, with here and there erect, articulate, rigid, even flocci, the 

 ultimate articulations wedge or cup-shaped, resolved into truncate 

 cuneate conidia. Sporidia fusiform, at length 4-septate. — Berk. §• 

 Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1333, t. xxi.,/. 24. 



On rotten elm roots. April. 



The cladotrichoid hairs sometimes spring immediately from the 

 mycelium. The conidia are sometimes pentangular ; sporidia 

 (-0008--00 1 in.) -02--025 m.m. long ; conidia (-0005 in.) -0125 m.m. 

 long, (-0003 in) -0075 m.m. wide at the top. 



Sphaeria (Denudatae) pomiformis. P. Handbook, No. 2580. 



Conidia. — Flocci erect, simple, articulated, white, the two supe- 

 rior articulations minutely echinulate, acrospores elliptical, brown, 

 borne on distinct, narrowly elliptical sporo| chores, forming a sub- 

 globose head. — Sporocybe albipes, B. fy Br., J1SS., Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 No. 1333* t. xxi.,/. 28. 



Acrospores (-0003--0006X-0002--O0025 in.) -0075--015X-005--006 

 m.m.; threads (-004--009 in.) T--225 m.m. high. 

 Sphaeria (Erumpentes) lichenicola. Be Not. " Solorina Spbasria." 



Perithecia innate, eruinpent, scattered or crowded, rounded, ver- 

 rucose, black, pierced with a punctiform ostiolum which is scarcely 

 conspicuous, and impressed. Asci clavate ; sporidia cylindrical, 

 obtuse, sometimes curved, at first binucleate, at length quadri- 

 locular and slightly coloured. (Not S ph. lichenicola, Somm.) 



Bertia lichenicola, De Not., in Rabh. Fung. Eur. No. 950. 



On Thallus of Solorina crocea. Scotland. (Dr. Stirton.) 



Sporidia (-0015--002 in.) -04--05 m.m. long. Bertia Solorina?, 

 Anzi (Hedwigia, viii., p. 14), is closely allied, but seems to be distinct. 

 Sphaeria (Ceratostoma) crinigera. Coolie. " Woolly-beaked SphEeria. 5 ' 



Subgregarious or scattered, black. Perithecia subglobose, semi- 

 immersed, pubescent. Ostiola spinulose. Asci cylindrical, narrow. 

 Sporidia uniseriata, elliptical, triseptate, hyaline. 



On pine wood. King's Lynn. (C. B. Plowright.) 



Allied to Sphceria cirrhosa, Fr. Sporidia (-0004--0005 in.) 

 •01--O125 m.m. Ions:. 



