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fruit of S. arundinacea. S. Junci is placed, in the * Summa Veg. Sc., after Dothidea, 
with the remark “ Incerti generis, priori affinis." 
200. SPHÆRIA ARUNDINACEA, Sow. Tas. XLIX. fig. 200, sporidia, x 326. Sporidia 
biseriate, yellowish-brown, linear, acuminate at one or both ends, 3-5-septate, 0*0010 
to 0:0016 inch long. 
201. SPHÆRIA NEBULOSA, Pers.; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 430. Tap. XLIX. fig. 201, ascus with 
sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, colourless, subacuminate, straight or slightly 
curved, uniseptate, 0:0003 to 0:0005 inch long. 
202. SPHÆRIA GODINI, Desm. Ta». XLIX. fig. 202, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia 
biseriate, linear-acuminate, uniseptate, colourless, 0:0010 to 0-0012 inch long. Messrs. 
Berkeley and Broome state (Ann. Nat. Hist. s. 2. vol. vii. p. 187) that this species 
is identical with S. arundinacea, Sow.; but in the Kew specimens the species differ 
in the colour of the sporidia, and in the number of the septa. "This, however, would 
not prove them distinct, as the number of septa varies in many species, and sporidia 
which are colourless when young frequently become brown in age. 
203. SPHÆRIA CLARA, n. s. Tas. XLIX. fig. 203, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia 
biseriate, colourless, subfusiform, 4-nucleate, sometimes also with some smaller 
nuclei ; slightly constricted in the middle, 0*0010 to 0-0012 inch long. On some reed. 
This fruit is described from a specimen which I had in my own herbarium, but 
which I have mislaid. "The species is not in the Hookerian herbarium. 
204. S. PARDALOTA, Mont. This plant produced only colourless, rather narrowly ellipti- 
cal stylospores 0:0002 to 0:0004 inch long. The true sporidia are described as cym- 
biform and biseptate. See Mont. Syll. p. 235. 
205. SPHÆRIA ? PANTHERINA, Berk. The specimen of this plant produced no asci, but 
fusiform stylospores 0:0008 to. 0:001 inch long, and extremely narrow. 
206. SPHÆRIA LONGISSIMA, Pers. This species forms long dark spots studded with the 
perithecia. 'The specimens at Kew are imperfect; buf in two of the perithecia I 
observed elliptical or slightly curved bodies with two nuclei, and sometimes with a 
septum in the middle, greenish or yellowish in colour, 0:0004 to 0*0006 inch long 
and about half as wide; but whether true fruit or not, I cannot say. I have seen no 
other specimens. 
Div. 16. CoNrERTE. 
207. SPHÆRIA BIFRONS, Schm. and Kunze; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 438. Tas. XLIX. fig. 204, 
ascus with sporidia, and free sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, colourless, curved, 
0:0005 inch long. toe 
207 a. SPHÆRIA GRAMINIS, Pers.; Fr. 8: M. ii. p. 434. Tas. XLIX. fig. 211, asci with 
sporidia, and free sporidia, x 450: Sporidia colourless, broadly elliptical, frequently 
with a single large globose nucleus. 
208. 8. Birte P) ROR, Berk. Engl. Flora, vol. v., “ Fungi,” p.257. Tas, XLIX. 
fig. 205, stylospores, x 325. Stylospores greenish, margined; contents granular; 
0:0012 inch long. 
209. S. GIGANTEA, Mont. Syll. 230. Tas. XLIX. figs. 206 and 207, ascus with sporidia, 
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