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92. 
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94. 
95. 
MR. F. CURREY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF COMPOUND SPHÆRIZÆ. 
sporidia and free sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate or crowded, colourless or 
yellowish, slightly curved, 0:0004 to 0:0005 inch long, rounded at each end, 
narrow. 
S. (DIATRYPE) STRUMELLA, Fr. S. M. ii. p. 365. Tas. XLVII. fig. 88, sporidia, x 450. 
Sporidia biseriate, colourless, elliptico-acuminate, triseptate, or, I think, pseudo- 
triseptate from the division of the endochrome into four parts, 0:0005 to 0:0006 inch 
long, sometimes slightly curved and slightly constricted in the middle, and frequently 
only biseptate. 
. S. (DIATRYPE) RADICALIS, Fr. El. ii. p. 73. Tap. XLVII. fig. 89, sporidia highly mag- 
nified. Sporidia biseriate or crowded, elliptical or subturbinate, colourless, hyaline 
very minute, 00002 to 0:0003 inch long, always, I think, with one, sometimes with 
two or three septa. The perithecia are deeply buried and surrounded by an orange- 
coloured stroma, through which the ostiola penetrate in the form of little, round, 
black, dise-like spots. : 
S. (DIATRYPE) QUERCINA, Pers. Tap. XLVII. fig. 90, ascus with sporidia and free 
sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, endochrome 4-, sometimes 6-partite, oleaginous, 
but sometimes granular, 0:0020 to 0-0028 inch long. This plant has been much 
misunderstood. "The above description is from a specimen lent to me by Mr. Berkeley. 
I doubt whether any of the specimens at Kew are the true species. Some of them 
are certainly S. leiphemia; and the others are not in a sufficiently good condition 
to decide upon. 
8. (DIATRYPE) LANCIFORMIS, Fr. S. M. ii. p. 362. Tap. XLVII. fig. 91, aseus with 
sporidia, x 325. Sporidia usually biseriate, but occasionally (when the sporidia are 
small, I think) uniseriate, pale clear brown, when ripe flatly elliptical, rather obtuse 
at the ends, the extreme tips frequently, if not always, pellucid, and the sporidium 
of a darker colour in the part immediately adjoining the pellucid tips. Length very 
variable, ordinarily 0-002 inch. | 
S. (DIATRYPE) nysrRIX, Tode; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 364 Tas. XLVII. fig. 92, asci with 
sporidia, X 325. Sporidia uniseriate or biseriate, elliptical, slightly constricted at the — 
septa, 3- or 4-septate with frequently longitudinal and oblique septa, pale clear brown ——— 
0:0006 to 0:0008 inch long. Described from a specimen out of Mr. Berkeley's herba- > 
rium, the plant at Kew not having perfect fruit. g or 
8S. (DraTRYPE) CERATOSPERMA, Tode; Fr. S. M. ii. p.364. Ta». XLVII. fig. 92, ascus — 
with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, colourless, simple, curved, 0:0003 to 0:0004 — — 
inch long. Described from a specimen of Mr. Berkeley's, the plant at Kew not å å 
being the true species. 
S. (DIATrYrE) FERRUGINEA, Pers.; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 363. Tap. XLVIL fig. 94, asi —— 
with sporidia, x 395. Sporidia very long, linear, acuminate at the ends, colourless, 2 
. with many nuclei. 
+ S. (DraTRYPE) NIGERRIMA, Bloxam, MSS. Sporidia biseriate, closely packed, "s : 
irregular in shape (arcuate, subelliptical or lozenge-shaped), with a number g 
circular nuclei, colourless, but with a greenish tinge, 3-, 4-, or 5-septate. Pertha 
ir u : on g^ nie 
regularly ovate or conical, sometimes arranged in tiers, raising the matrix intg 
