MR. F. CURREY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF SIMPLE SPH^RIjE. 317 



O'OOIO to 0"0014 inch long. Perithecia roundish, rather pulvinate, very hairy, hut 

 the hairs are very short. On wood from Swan River. 



241. S. suPERFiciALis, u. s. Tab. LVII. fig. 25, asci with sporidia, X 420. Sporidia 

 uniseriate, overlapping, elliptical, or suhtm-binate, rarely slightly cuiTed, colourless, 

 2-nucleate, 0"0003 to 0*0004 inch long. Perithecia hairy, suhglobose, very smaU, 

 seated on a hairy subiculum. Like some other Sphcerice, combining the charac- 

 teristics of the Villosce and Byssisedce. 



242. S. CAPILLIFEBA, n. s. Tab. LVII. fig. 26, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia 

 uniseriate, slightly overlapping, rather dark bromi, 1-2 nucleate, broadly elliptical, 

 0"0003 to 0"0004 inch long. Perithecia globose, clothed with vei-y short, rather stiff 

 black hairs, seated on a pale subiculum, and furnished with a mammillate ostiolum. 

 Qucere, if distinct from S. crinita, Pers. 



Div. 19. Denxjdat^. 



243. S. INSPEESA, Berk. Tab. LVII. fig. 27, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia mostly 

 (? always) uniseriate, colourless, subhyaUne, elliptico-acuminate, 0"0005 to O'OOOO inch 

 long. On wood from Swan River. Not distinguishable from S. pulvia-pyrms, excG\yi 

 by the sporidia. 



244. S. RHODOMPHALOs, Berk. Tab. LVII. fig. 28, ascus with sporidia, and free sporidia, 

 X 325. Sporidia biseriate, colourless or greenish, curved, subfusiform, uniseptate 

 or with a bipartite endochrome, 0-0007 to 0*0008 inch long. On wood. Perithecia 

 globose, with a distinct red circle round the ostiolum, which is frequently slightly 

 depressed. Sporidia sometimes slightly constricted at the division, and with a 

 nucleus in each partition, as in the right-hand figiu'es. 



245. S. Bombaeda, Batsch ; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 456. Tab. LVII. fig. 29, sporidia, x 325. 

 Sporidia crowded, colourless, intertwined, 0-0016 to 0-0020 inch long, but very 

 variable, frequently, if not usually, with a division in the middle. Apparently vary- 

 ing much in the length of the ostiolum. I have seen once or twice a bead-like ap- 

 pearance in the sporidia, arising from the breaking-up of the endochrome into divi- 

 sions. The fruit of this plant should be particularly observed, as I suspect it may 

 sometimes be multiseptate, as in S. Racodium, corticis, &c. 



246. S. MOEEFORMis, Tode ; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 468 ; El. ii. p. 94. Tab. LVII. fig. 30, ascus 

 with sporidia, and free sporidia, x 325. Sporidia crowded, uniseptate, colourless, or 

 with a greenish tinge, linear, but shghtly curved; endochrome usually granular, 

 sometimes nucleate ; asci usually broad as ia the figure, hut sometimes more 

 elongated. 



247. S. PUSTULA, n. s. Tab. LVII. fig. 31, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, 

 colourless, or greenish, subeUiptical, but slightly curved, 0-0008 to 0-001 inch long ; 

 endochrome bipartite. On wood. Very like S. pulvis-pyrius, except in the sporidia. 

 Bungay, IVIr. Stock. 



248. S. PULVis-PTEius, Pers. ; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 458. Tab. LVII. fig. 32, ascus with sporidia, 

 and a free sporidiiim, x 325. Sporidia straight, or very slightly curved, triseptate, 

 slightly constricted at the septa, pale brown, 00005 inch long. In the ' Introduction 



