326 MR. F. CURREY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF SIMPLE SPHÆRIÆ. 
dark olive-green, divided into two unequal parts, in the smaller of which the endochrome 
is 3-partite, and in the larger 3- or 4-partite. Sporidia surrounded by a gelatinous 
envelope, which is not always visible in the ascus, especially where the sporidia touch 
one another. Length of sporidia 0:0020 to 0-0024 inch. I have ventured to place 
this plant in the Odfeete, contrary to the opinion of Messrs. Berkeley and Broome, 
who consider its division to be the Subtectæ. Very like S. lanciformis in the form 
and nature of its sporidia. 
318. 8. APICULATA, n. s. TAB. LVIII. fig. 96, (a) ascus with sporidia, x 325; (b) free 
sporidia, x 450. Sporidia uniseriate, olive-brown, straight or very slightly curved, 
biseptate, each furnished with a hyaline tip, which is shut off from the rest of the 
sporidium by one of the septa. The hyaline tip is frequently, if not generally, invi- 
sible in the ascus, owing to the overlapping of the ends of the sporidia. The sporidia 
are often nucleated; the endochrome is somewhat granular. Length of the sporidia 
00010 inch.  Perithecia large, subglobose, deeply buried in the wood, above the 
surface of which the rather wide, circular, somewhat gaping ostiolum just protrudes. 
On a dry, old (? deal) fence of the South-Western Railway, not far from the Wey- 
bridge Station, 1856 and 1857. A very curious plant both in habit and sporidia. 
The perithecia are completely and deeply buried in the wood, and are sometimes 
scattered, sometimes in circles or groups of as many as five together. The perithecia 
seem eventually to throw off the wood above the ostiola, leaving deep depressions in 
the surface of the wood. | 
319. 8. APPENDICULOSA, Berk. and Br. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. vii. p. 189. 
Tas. LVIII. fig. 97, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia uniseriate, overlapping, colourless, 
subfusiform, with a caudate appendage, 0:001 inch long with the appendage. 
320. S. SIPARIA, Berk. and Br. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. ix. p. 321. pl. 9. fig. 8. 
Ta». LVIIL fig. 98, ascus with sporidia, x 220. Sporidia biseriate, at first golden- 
yellow, eventually clear brown, 00020 to 0:0024 inch long, without measuring the 
outer gelatinous envelope in which they are enclosed, and which disappears as the 
sporidia advance in age. | 
321. S. (MASSARIA) AMBLYOSPORA *, Berk. and Br. 1. c. p.322. pl. 10. fig.10. Tas. LIX. 
fig. 99, ascus with sporidia and a free sporidium, x 220. 8 poridia biseriate, greenish- 
brown, eventually brown, biseptate, lageniform, the apicular cell rather lighter- — 
coloured than the others, 0:002 to 0-0024 inch long, without measuring the gelatinous — 
coat in which they are enveloped. In describing the fruit of this plant, I have — : 
adopted the name used by Messrs. Berkeley and Broome, who described it as å € 
species. Iam quite convinced, however, that S. amblyospora, Berk. and Broome, 18 
the Sphæria fædans of the * Syst. Myc.,’ the Massaria fædans of the * Summa ye 
Scand.,’ and the Splanchnonema of Corda, in Sturm’s * Deutschland's Flora,’ t. 54. 5 
322. 8. GIGASPORA, Desm. Tap, LIX. fig. 100, ascus with sporidia, x 220. Spor zi 
biseriate, oblong or almond-shaped, with the sides often incurved at the centre, dark 
* SE : a 
Massarıa, Notar. Perithecium subcarbonaceous ; ostiolum papillate, attenuated. Nucleus gelatinous, m 
with paraphyses and asci, which dehisce a besdi : ; ine, W 
d t the > in gelatine, 
form a dirty black stain, apex, ejecting dark septate spores immersed in ge 
