156 ENUMERATION OF FUNGI. 
Fleshy ; 1 inch or more in diameter, disciform, peltate, 
dirty white, with a slight umber tinge, clothed with ad- 
pressed down; above smooth umber, dotted with the orifices 
of the perithecia. The individuals from which the above 
character is drawn up, are, unfortunately, not mature. The 
perithecia are extremely minute, and evidently imperfect, 
but the puncture of the ostiolum is quite distinct. The 
fertile coat is very brittle, cracking and separating from the 
white stroma. It appears, as far as can be judged from the 
short specific character, to be Junghuhn’s Sph. peltata. (See 
Ann. Se. Nat. Nov. 1841.) 
Tab. VII. fig. 7.—a. S. peltata, nat. size, b. portion of upper 
surface, magnified. 
32. Spheria (Cespitose) examinuns, (n. sp.) ; peritheciis 
subglobosis rugulosis astomis nigris opacis collabescendo- 
sinuatis depressis ceespites seriato-confluentes efformantibus; 
ascis curtis obtusis; sporidiis semi-ellipticis brunneis. Cum. 
63. 
Bursting through the crust of different Lichens, and con- 
stituting tufts; which often become confluent, and form long 
wavy lines, with single tufts, and even single perithecia in- 
terspersed. 
Resembling externally S. cupularis, but not collapsing so 
regularly, and the asci in that species are lanceolate, and 
contain minute curved sporidia. The matrix round the base 
of the heaps is stained brown. 
Tab. VII. fig. 8.—a. asci, b. sporidia, highly magnified. 
33. Spheeria (Pertusz) micraspis (n. sp.) ; peritheciis spat- 
sis globoso-depressis ostiolo papillaformi cruste applanato- 
hemispheric innato-superficiali peritheciiformi immersis, 
parte prominente conico-hemisphericá pertusá. Cum. ™ 
2164. 
On wood, in a red Lichenose crust. Perithecia in the 
centre of a black peritheciiform crust, the upper part O 
which is nearly a line broad, naked, and somewhat conical, 
with a round perforation in the centre; base depressed. 
Sporidia brown, fusiform. 
