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GENUS 103. SPH@RONEMA. Tode* 
Perithecia free, opaque or hyaline. Spores minute, at length 
oozing out by the ostiolum and forming a globule. 
1.—Spheronema epileucum B. and Br. MSS. Perithecia cream- 
colored, conical, tomentose, springing from a white mycelium, 
crowded together. Spores innate, uniseptate, 0.0006 to 
0.0007 inch long. Seated on the outside of dead leaves of 
carex paniculata, Spye Park, March, 1863. 
No others out of four British bave occurred. 
GENUS 104. APOSPHARIA. B.t 
Perithecia at length free, distinct from the matrix, furnished 
with a papilloeform ostiolum. Spores minute. 
1.—Apospheria acuta B. on dead nettles. Common. — Grev. 
t 239, f. 1. 
2,—Apospheria complanata 6. On dead herbaceous stems. 
Tode f. 88. 
The only British species. 
GENUS 105. spPH@ROPSIS. Lév.f 
Perithecia distinct, carbonaceous. Spores various, simple 
escaping by a perforation at the apex. 
1.—Spheeropsis candollei ‘B and Br. On dead box leaves. 
Batheaston, Currey Lin. Trans. XXII. 283, t 49, f. 186. 
2.—Spheeropsis parca Band Br. On dead leaves of abies excelsa. 
Spye Park, A. N. H., No. 420.4 
3.—Spheeropsis strobi B and Br. O dead leaves of pinus strobus. 
Spye Park, A. N. H. No. 421. 
4,—Spheeropsis geniculata Band Br, With the last, A. N. H., 
No. 421.4 
5.—Spheeropsis epitricha B and Br. On equisctum palustre. 
Spye Park, A. N., No. 422. 
* Sphzronema, from sphaira a sphere and naima gelatine. 
+ Apospheria, from apo from (receding from) and spheria. 
t Spheeropsis, from sphaira and ops an aspect, 
