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MR. F. CURREY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF SIMPLE SPHÆRIÆ: 
S. corrıcıs, Sow. t. 372.£.5; Fr.S. M. ii. 481; El. ii. 98. Tas. LIX. fig. 108, aseus 
with sporidia and free sporidia, X 325. Sporidia biseriate or crowded, pale brown, 
but of rather a rich colour, eurved, variable in length, but in good ripe specimens 
about 0:0008 inch long. Intermixed with the Sphæria, and exactly resembling it, I 
find other perithecia containing the bodies on the right of the figure, which were of 
a darker brown, and 3-5- or 7-septate, varying from 00006 to 0:0012 inch long, 
which I doubt not are perfect, free sporidia, the asci having deliquesced. 
S. TRANSVERSALIS, Schw.; Fr. El. ii. 94. Tas. LIX. fig. 109, ascus with sporidia, 
x 325. Sporidia uniseriate, dark brown, elliptical, subglobose, or even quite globular, 
0:0004 inch long. Arranged with the Obturate, but belonging, I think, to the Denu- 
date, and in my opinion not distinct from S. pulveracea, Ehrh. Fries (El. ii. 94) con- 
siders S. transversalis identical with S.myriocarpa. I have seen no specimens of the 
latter Spheria in fruit, but it is possibly not distinct from S. pulveracea. 
S. JUGLANDIS, Fr. S. M. ii. 493. Tas. LIX. fig. 110, sporidia, x highly. Sporidia 
biseriate, colourless, almond-shaped or narrowly elliptical, frequently curved, usually 
4-nucleate, sometimes with the endochrome bipartite (? sometimes 5-partite), 0-0004 
to 0°0005 inch long. I believe this to be the perfect form of S. Juglandis, Fr. The 
Hookerian herbarium contains another form, next described, which is an authentie 
specimen from the Scl. Suec., but which is not a true Sphæria, and is perhaps an 
imperfect form of the species just described. 
S. JUGLANDIS, Fr. S. M. ii. 493. Tag. LIX. fig. 111, fruit, x highly. No asci; but 
. the perithecia contain a quantity of minute, colourless or slightly yellowish, narrowly 
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almond-shaped stylospores, borne on rather long pedicels, which, when broken 
look like the fruit of a-Cytispora, but are in reality only the fulcra of the stylospores. 
Stylospores 0:0002 to 0:0003 inch long, sometimes with two nuclei or with a bipar- 
tite endochrome. 
S. INSPERSA, Sz. Tas. LIX. fig. 112, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate 
or erowded, with the endochrome 4-partite, dark brown, constricted at the partitions, 
usually rather more pointed at one end than at the other, 0:0010 to 00011 inch : 
long. Not to be confounded with SS. inspersa, Berk., which has very different å 
sporidia. 
S. (SPHÆROPSIS ?) UBERIFORMIS, Fr. S. M. ii. 491. Tan. LIX. fig. 113, fruit, X 925. — 
I could find no asci. Perithecia filled with elongate, acuminate, colourless spores — 
having the endochrome 4-partite, 0-0005 to 0:0008 inch long. Easily known by m 
udder-shaped perithecia ; but it is, perhaps, not a true Sphæria. à 
S. (HenDersonn ?) orPrLATA, Fr. S. M. ii. 493. Tan. LIX. fig. 114, fruit highly — 
magnified. No asci. Perithecia filled with almond-shaped colourless spores wi 
bipartite endochrome, 00003 to 0-0004 inch long. This would be a Sphæria or : 
Hendersonia, according to whether it has or has not asci. 
S. (HENDERSONIA) PALINA, Fr. S. M. ii. 494. The fruit of this plant is not distin: — 
guishable from that of $. oppilata, but the spores rarely exceed 00008 inch in length. m 
The endochrome also is sometimes continuous instead of bipartite, and the spores ee : 
borne on long peduncles, as in S. Juglandis, but which I did not observe in S. oppilata: søn 
