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joints (? at first continuous), Which frequently separate when the sporidia escape 
from the ascus, 0:0018 inch long. 
258. 8. BIFORMIS, Sz., non Fries. Ta». LVII. fig. 41, fruit, x 325. I could find no asci. 
The perithecia are filled with balloon-shaped bodies, with granular contents, colourless, 
and of irregular size. There is a reddish tinge on the upper part of many of the 
perithecia, as in S. rhodomphalos, Berk. If the plant be a Sphæria, it would belong 
to the present division, but I am doubtful as to the existence of asci. 
. 259. S. VERRUCOSA, Grev.; Fr. Index Alphabeticus=8. moriformis, Tode. 
260. S. PULVERACEA, Ehrh.; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 459. Tas. LVII. fig. 42, ascus with sporidia, 
x 325. Sporidia uniseriate, clear dark brown, elliptical, subglobose, or subturbinate, 
0:0008 to 0-0004 inch long. 
261. S. SORDARIA, Fr. S. M.ii.458; EL ii. p.94 Ta». LVII. fig. 43, ascus with sporidia, 
x 325. Sporidia uniseriate, dark brown, elliptical, 0:0006 to 0-0007 inch long. 
262. S. OBDUCENS, Schum. =S. plateata, Pers. supra. 
263. S. POMIFORMIS, P.= 5. pulois-pyrius. 
264. S. (NECTRIA) Przıza, Tode; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 452; El. ii. p. 92. Ta». LVII. fig. 44, 
sporidia, x 450. Sporidia elliptical, uniseptate (or with the endochrome bipartite), 
colourless, 0-0004 to 0:0005 inch long. Perithecia fawn-coloured or brown. 
265. S. (NECTRIA) SANGUINEA. Tas. LVIL fig. 45, ascus with sporidia, x 395. Sporidia 
elliptical, colourless, uniseriate or overlapping, uniseptate, 0-0004 to 0-0005 inch 
long. Fig. 46 represents sporidia of the same species, X 420, at a more advanced 
period, after the asci have become dissolved. 
266. S. (NECTRIA) EPISPHÆRIA, Tode; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 454; El. ii. p. 93. Tas. LVII. fig. 47, 
sporidia, x highly. Sporidia uniseriate, or overlapping, colourless, elliptieal, — 
nate or round at the ends; endochrome bipartite, or with two nuclei, 00002 to 
0:0004 inch long. ré | 
267. S. RUBICOLA, n.s. Tam. LVIL fig. 48, sporidia, x 420. Sporidia biseriate, colourless, 
subeymbiform, or narrowly almond-shaped, with 2 or 4 nuclei, sometimes with the 
endochrome divided into two parts as in the lower figure, 0-0006 to ee 
Perithecia small, globose, or subglobose, with a mammillate ostiolum 4 — 
with a strong lens, they are seen to be closely surrounded å dd | 
i : age ithecia, and similar hairs cover the bark 
hairs, sometimes springing from íhe perithecia, am i ber 1857. Almost 
Where no perithecia are visible. On bramble, Wey bridge, Octo bel N to the 
as nearly allied to the Villose as to the Denudate, but ape PRES ae 
latter by preference. | | 4 Ta 
268. 8. (Gnana *) Vaconen, Som. t. 878. £ 1; gn eR en 
LVIII. fig. 49, ascus with sporidia, X 325. Sporidia UE adit ord in 
colourless, but yellow in a mass, almost almond- haped, femme ly Hook. herb. 
the middle, uniseptate, 0-0006 inch long, or slightly less. — to the Denudate. It 
with the Cæspitosæ, but quere, if not more properly belonging 
has quite the habit of S. moriformis. 
* Grppera, Fr. Perithecium ceraceo-corneous, free, — 
Which is at length ejected ; asei linear, fixed to the base of the perithecium. 
always closed, filled with a waxy nucleus, 
