330 MR. F. CURREY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF SIMPLE SPHÆRIÆ. 
350. S. DEMATIUM, Pers.; Fr.S. M. ii. 505. Tas. LIX. fig. 123, sporidia, x 325. This 
plant was not, I think, quite ripe. Most of the sporidia were curved and colourless, 
as in the right-hand one of the three; but septa were just visible in one or two of 
the sporidia, and nuclei in others. I have little doubt that the sporidia, when ripe, 
are brown or yellowish, and three or four times (or even more) septate. There are 
three specimens of this species in the herbarium, marked a, B, and y. The above de- 
scription is from («); I could find no fruit in (8) and (y). 
351. S. ARUNDINIS, Fr. S. M.ii.510. Tas. LIX. fig. 124, sporidia, x 425. Sporidia bi- 
seriate, at first yellowish, then brown, 3-5-septate, sometimes with six septa, slightly 
curved, somewhat pointed at each end, frequently with nuclei in the septa, 0:0010 to 
0:0016 inch long. 
352. S. (SPHÆROPSIS ?) CogN1 Suzcicæ. Notatrue Spheria. Perithecia producing only 
minute, straight, cylindrical, colourless spermatia, 0:0002 inch long. 
353. S. (SPHÆROPSIS ?) ACUTA, Hoffm. I believe S. acuta, Hoffm., to be only a sphærop- 
soid state of some common Caulicolous species; but whether of S. complanata or 
S. herbarum, or of any other species, it is impossible to say. 
354. S. COMPLANATA, Tode. It is difficult, without authentic specimens, to be certain as 
to the true S. complanata of Tode. The sporidia shown in Ta». LIX. fig. 125, x 325 
diameters, are those which I have always supposed to belong to the true species. 
These sporidia are biseriate, or uniseriate and overlapping, colourless, or yellow, 
2-4-partite, sometimes apparently triseptate; they vary at different ages of the 
plant; (a) represents the young state, (b) the more advanced ; (c) is a form equally 
common (in the same specimens) with (5); (d) is, I think, the perfect and typical 
form of fruit. ; | 
355. S. CONIFORMIS, Fr. S. M. ii. 508. Tas. LIX. fig. 126, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia bi- 
seriate, yellow, slightly curved, 5-11-partite, varying much in length, as is shown by 
the figure. See the remarks on the fruit of this species as compared with S. acumi- 
nata, Sow., in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. ix. p- 328. | 
356. S. IMBERBIS, MS. This specimen contains three different plants—lst, Sphæria 
herbarum; 2ndly, perithecia containing curved colourless stylospores, like the sper- 
. matia of S. verruceformis ; 3rdly, perithecia containing minute, colourless, straight, 
or slightly curved cylindrical spermatia or stylospores. : 
357. S. pHmosticta, Berk. TAB. LIX. fig. 127, ascus with sporidia and free sporidia, 
X 325. Sporidia uniseriate or biseriate, very dark brown, subeymbiform, 0:0004 
inch long. Perithecia minute, punctiform. On Hierochloe Brunonis, from the Auck- 
land Group and Campbell Islands. 
we seen ea ‚Fr. S. M. ii. 527. Tan. LIX. fig. 128, we 
ul o. Fi. a m containing the narrowly cylindrical or irregularly- 
her deck bo er - These bodies have a bipartite endochrome, poo 
Perge cpi) ae E s ims of Zea Mays. If there be no asci, this plant 5 1 
; sci may have dissolved, and then it would be a Spherw. — 
There is another specimen in the herbarium marked S. Zee, Sz., which is, I think, 
identical with Hendersonia arcus, B. & Br. 
