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359. S. PELLiTA, Fr. S. M. ii. 603. Tab. LIX. fig. 129, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia, 

 X 325. Asci clavate ; sporidia crowded, multiseptate, fusiform, yellow, with a 

 swoUen joint, which is sometimes the third, sometimes the fourth from the end, 

 0"0015 to 0"0016 inch long. There is another specimen in the herbarium, marked 

 S. pellita, Fr., in which the fruit is not distinguishable from that of S. coniformis, 

 supra. 



360. S. NiGRELLA, Fr. S. M. ii. 512. Tab. LIX. fig. 130, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia bi- 

 seriate, colourless or greenish, fusiform, 0-0008 inch long ; endoclu-ome bipartite. 



361. S. Pisi, Sow. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 509. Tab. LX. fig. 131, ascus with sporidia, x 325^ 

 Sporidia biseriate, yeUow or yellowish brown, multicellular, 0-001 inch long. On 

 Asparagus ojfic'malis. I think not distinct from (S*. herbarnm. 



362. S. AsTRAGAiii, n. s. Tab. LIX. fig. 132, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, subfusi- 

 form, varying at the extremities from acute to obtuse, colourless ; endochrome uni- 

 partite, 0-0006 to 0-0008 inch long. Perithecia minute, globose, shining, half-hidden 

 by the epidermis. On petioles of Astragalus. Dr. Richardson, Ai'ctic expedition, 

 1827 (? =S. nigrella, Fr.). 



363. S. acuminata. Sow. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 506. Tab. LIX. fig. 133, ascus with sporidia, 

 and a broken ascus with sporidia protruding, x 325. Sporidia filiform, almost as long 

 as the ascus, yello^vish brown in a mass, but of a very pale coloui* when separate, 

 arranged side by side. See the remarks of Mr. Berkeley on the fructification of this 

 species ia Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. vs.. p. 328. I could not clearly make 

 out any septa in the specimens in the Hookerian herbarium, although some of the 

 asci when full of sporidia seemed marked with very faint transverse lines. Mr. Berkeley 

 says there are about twenty articulations. 



364. S. CABiciNA, Desm. The perithecia contain only minute, acuminate, colom-less 

 spermatia, without septa or nuclei, just like those of ^S*. Juglandis, but slightly longer. 



365. S. (Diplodia) caxvescens, Fr. S. S. 401. This specimen has perithecia containing 

 the brown tmiseptate fruit, not contained in asci, shown in Tajb. LIX. fig. 134, 

 X 325. It should be classed, 1 think, with Diplodia. In company with this plant 

 are some other perithecia with asci and sporidia, the latter difi'ering Little, if at all, 

 from the sporidia of S. herbarum. 



366. S. Clivensis, Berk. & Br. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. ix. p. 879. pi. 11. 

 fig. 29. Tab. LIX. fig. 135, ascus with sporidia, X 220. Sporidia biseriate, dai-k 

 brown, oblong or slightly curved, triseptate, constricted at the septa, 0-0006 to 

 0-0008 inch long. 



367. S. rubella, Pers. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 506. Tab. LIX. fig. 136, ascus with sporidia, X 220. 

 Sporidia filiform, quite . filling the ascus, and of the same length, arranged side by 

 side, .colourless when detached, but yellowish brown in the mass. Length of the asci 

 variable, about 0-007 to 0-008 inch long. 



368. S. Helena, n. s. Tab. LIX. fig. 137, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia uniseriate, over- 

 lapping, brownish yellow, curved, 3-septate, or rarely 4-septate, or with the endo- 

 chrome 4-partite, or rarely 5-partite, 0001 inch long. Perithecia conical, truncate. 

 This species is very near S. complanata, Tode, but many of the perithecia are in the 



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