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275. S. (DiPLODiA) LECYTHEA, Schwein. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 460. Tab. LVIII. fig. 55, fi-uit, 

 X 220. Spores colourless or greenish, elliptical, 0"0010 to 0"0014 inch long. Re- 

 sembling externally the SphceridB of this division; but I think it is nDiplodia, although 

 there is not any septum in the sporidia. 



276. S. MEEDABiA, Fr. El. ii. 100. Tab. LVIII. fig. 56, ascus with sporidia, X 420. Spo- 

 ridia uniseriate, dark black-brown, elliptical or subglobose, 0-0003 to 0-0004 inch 

 long. Arranged with the FertuscR at Kcw, but placed by Fries in the Obtectce. 

 I should rather consider it as belonging to the Benudata, judging from the speci- 

 mens in the Hookerian herbarium, which are authentic. The perithecia are very 

 small. 



277. S. Olearum, Cast. Tab. LVIII. fig. 57, ascus with sporidia, x 325. Sporidia uni- 

 seriate or biseriate, rather pale brown, elliptical, 5-septate, mth a nucleus m each 

 septimi, 0-0010 to 0-0012 inch long. Perithecia large, mammillate, subinnate. 

 Apparently belonging to the Pertusoi. 



278. S. TJLMicoLA, n. s. Tab. LVIII. fig. 58, sporidia, x 450. Sporidia oblong, brown, 

 uniseptate, 0-0009 inch long, slightly constricted in the middle. I could find no asci ; 

 but, there being no trace of sporophores, the asci had probably become dissolved : if 

 ascigerous, the plant is certainly a Sphceria, belonging to this division. Perithecia 

 large, globose, more than half-buried in the wood, furnished with a mammillate 

 ostiolum, which drops off, leaving a large round aperture. 



279. S. MiCRASPis, Berk. Tab. LVIII. fig. 59, represents the fruit of this plant, which 

 is probably not a Sphceria, but a Pertusaria. 



280. S. PUTAMiNUM, Schwein. ; Fr. S. M. 461. Tab. LVIII. figs. 60 & 61, sporidia, x 220. 

 Sporidia uniseriate or crowded (I could not determine whether there were more 

 than four in any of the asci), dark brown, 0-004 to 0-005 inch long. I am uncertain 

 whether the bodies in fig. 60 are sporidia with gelatinous envelopes, or asci witli a 

 single sporidium. 



281. S. CAiiLiCAEPA, n. s. Tab. LVIII. fig. 62, ascus with sporidia and free sporidia, 

 X 325. Sporidia biseriate, very broadly fusiform, 0-0024 to 0-0030 inch long, usually 

 slightly constricted in the middle, with a median septum, and from one to three 

 other septa close together at each end of the sporidium; colour of the sporidia 

 greenish, becoming brown in age ; the sporidia have usually a hyaline tip at each 

 end. Perithecia large, almost globose, with a small mammillate ostiolum. On a 

 piece of old broken paling, the sui-face of which was decayed from exposure, Kid- 

 brooke, Blackheath, March 12, 1859. Quaere if distinct from S. putaminum, Schw. 



Div. 21. Platystom^. 



282. S. BARBARA, Fr. S. M. ii. 468. Tab. LVIII. fig. 63, ascus with sporidia, x 220. 

 Sporidia linear, packed side by side along the whole length of the ascus, filiform, of 

 great length, but probably breaking up into short jomts, colourless. Fractification 

 resembling that of many plants ta the division or genus Cordyceps. 



283. S. MACROSTOMA, Tode; Fr. S. M. ii. 469. Tab. LVIII. fig. 64, sporidia, x 425. 

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