MR. F. CURREY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF SIMPLE SPH^ERI^. 319 



joints (? at first continuous), which frequently separate when the sporidia escape 

 from the ascus, 0-0018 inch long. 



258. S. BiFORMis, Sz., non Fries. Tab. LVII. fig. 41, fruit, x 325. I could find no asci. 

 The perithecia are filled with balloon-shaped bodies, with granular contents, colourless, 

 and of irregiilar size. There is a reddish tinge on the upper part of many of the 

 perithecia, as in S. rhodomj}halos, Berk. If the plant be a Sphmria, it would belong 

 to the present division, Imt I am doubtful as to the existence of asci. 



269. S. VEEBTJCOSA, Grev. ; Fr. Index Alphabeticus=AS'. moriformis, Tode. 



260. S. PULVEEACEA, Ehrh. ; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 459. Tab. LVII. fig. 42, ascus with sporidia, 

 X 325. Sporidia uniseriate, clear dark brown, elliptical, subglobose, or subturbinate, 

 0-0003 to 0-0004 inch long. 



261. S. SORDARIA, Fr. S. M. ii. 458 ; El. ii. p. 94. Tab. LVII. fig. 43, ascus with sporidia, 

 X 325. Sporidia uniseriate, dark brown, elliptical, 00006 to 0-0007 inch long. 



262. S. OBDUCENS, ^ch.\)im..^= S. plateata, Pers. supra. 



263. S. POMiFORMis, p. = S. pulvis-pyrkis. 



264. S. (Nectria) Peziza, Tode ; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 452 ; El. ii. p. 92. Tab. LVII. fig. 44, 

 sporidia, x 450. Sporidia elliptical, uniseptate (or with the endochrome bipartite), 

 colourless, 0-0004 to 0-0005 inch long. Perithecia fawn-coloured or Ijrown. 



265. S. (Nectria) sanguinea. Tab. LVII. fig. 45, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia 

 elliptical, colourless, uniseriate or overlapping, uniseptate, 0-0004 to 0-0005 inch 

 long. Fig. 46 represents sporidia of the same species, x 420, at a more advanced 

 period, after the asci have become dissolved. 



266. S. (Nectria) episph^ria, Tode ; Fr. S. M. ii. p. 454 ; El. ii. p. 93. Tab. LVII. fig. 47, 

 sporidia, x highly. Sporidia uniseriate, or overlapping, colourless, elliptical, acumi- 

 nate or round at the ends; endochrome bipartite, or with two nuclei, 0-0002 to 

 0-0004 inch long. 



267. S. rijbicola, n. s. Tab. LVII. fig. 48, sporidia, x 420. Sporidia biseriate, colourless, 

 subcymbiform, or narrowly almond-shaped, with 2 or 4 nuclei, sometimes with the 

 endochrome divided into two parts as in the lower figure, 0-0006 to 0-0007 inch long. 

 Perithecia small, globose, or subglobose, with a mammillate ostiolum ; when viewed 

 with a strong lens, they are seen to be closely surrounded with stiff, dark-scattered 

 hairs, sometimes springing from the perithecia, and similar hairs cover the bark 

 where no perithecia are visible. On bramble, Weybridge, October 1857. Almost 

 as nearly aUied to the Villosce as to the Benudatce, but perhaps belonging to the 

 latter by preference. 



268. S. (Gibbera *) Vaccinii, Sow. t. 373. f. 1 ; Engl. Flora, vol. v. pt. 2. p. 254. Tab. 

 LVIII. fig. 49, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia uniseriate, overlapping, almost 

 coloiu'less, but yellow in a mass, almost almond-shajied, but slightly constricted in 

 the middle, uniseptate, 0-0006 inch long, or slightly less. Ai-ranged in Hook. herb. 

 Avith the CtBspitoscB, but qucere, if not more properly belonging to the Denudatte. It 

 has quite the habit of S. moriformis. 



* Gibbera, Fr. Perithecium ceraceo-comeous, free, radiato-rimose, always closed, filled with a waxy nucleus, 

 which is at length ejected ; asci linear, fixed to the base of the perithecium. 



