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form of truncated cones. It may, however, be merely a variety of the latter, and I 

 propose it with doubt as a new species. 

 369. S. HERBABUM, Fr. S. M. ii. 511. Tab. LIX. fig. 138, asci with sporidia, X 220. 

 Sporidia oblong-elliiitic, at first yellow, eventually brown, multicellular, varying in 

 size and in the mode of arrangement in the asci, as will be seen by referring to the 



figui'es. 



Div. 27. FoLiicoL^. 



.370. S. RhIzomorph^, Kunze. Tab. LIX. fig. 139, ascus with sporidia and free sporidia, 

 X 325. Sporidia crowded, brown, of rather a dark colour, but clear and transparent, 

 0-0012 to 00016 inch long. From Smrinam. 



371. S. TUB.EFORMis, Todc ; Fr. S. M. ii. 516. Tab. LIX. fig. 140, ascus with sporidia, 

 X 325. SporicUa biseriate or crowded, colourless, or in age with a dirty-brown tinge, 

 elliptical or subcymbiform, 0'0005 inch long. 



372. S. (SPHiEROPSis ?) MACUL^EFORMis, Pers. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 524. This is not a true Spharia. 

 The perithecia produce only exceedingly minute, staff-like, colourless spermatia, not 

 so much as 0002 inch long. 



373. S. (Sph^ropsis ?) Ole^, D.C. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 489. No asci. Tab. LIX. fig. 141, 

 fruit, X 325. Fruit consisting of subcylindrical, colourless, highly refractive spores, 

 0-0007 to 00009 inch long. I could not make out the mode of attachment ; a few 

 of the spores had a sort of string, as in the right-hand figure ; but I am doubtful 

 whether it were a true peduncle, or a string of a kind of mucus in which the spores 

 were imbedded. This appears to be the same plant as No. 298 in the Ohtecta. 



374. S. (Sph^ropsis ?) leptidea, Fr. S. M. ii. 522. Not a true Sph(sria. Fruit con- 

 sisting of minute, colourless, straight or very slightly curved, subcylindrical spores, 

 l^arely 0-0002 inch long. 



375. S. (Sph^ropsis ?) duplex, var. Nardi, Fr. S. M. ii. 520. Not a true Sphceria. 

 Fruit the same as in S. leptidea, Fr. 



376. S. ? puNCTiFORMis, Pcrs. ; Fr. S. S. 86. The perithecia contain colourless saccate 

 bodies, grouped together as in Tab. LIX. fig. 142 ; but whether they are spores or im- 

 perfect asci I cannot say, probably the latter. 



377. S. (Sph^eropsis) Heder.^, Sow. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 521. Fruit consisting of colourless 

 cylindrical spores, 00008 to 0001 inch long ; not distinguishable from the fruit of 

 S. Olece, D.C, excepting that the spores are rather narrower and not so refractive, 

 and I observed no peduncles. 



378. S. (Sph^ropsis) iEGOPODii, Pers. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 526. The fruit is the same as in 

 S. leptidea, Fr., supra. 



379. S. (Discosia*) Artocreas, Tode; Fr. S. S. 151 ; S. M. ii. 523. Tab. LIX. fig. 143, 

 spores, X 325. The fruit consists of straw-coloured, curved, or almost straight spores, 

 having an extremely delicate filiform appendage at each end. The average length of 

 the spores without the appendage is 0-0007 inch. The spores are probably produced 



* Discosia, Lib. Phlyctid. Notar. Perithecium innate, subcarbonaceous, at length collapsed and plicate; ostio- 

 lum pierced. Spores fusiform, prolonged at each end into a filiform appendage. 



