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iu asci, which deliquesce at an early period. I can see no sufficient grounds for sepa- 

 rating this plant and the following one from Sj)h<Bria. 



380. S. (Discosia) alnea, Fr. S. M. ii. 520. This plant has asci ; but the sporidia in 

 the specimens in the Hookerian herbarium, which are from the Scl. Suec, are not 

 formed. 



381. S. GLAUCO-PUNCTATA, Grcv. Fl. Edin. Tab. LIX. fig. 144, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia 

 biseriate, rather dark brown, slightly curved, but sometimes straight ; endochrome 

 3-6- or more partite, O'OOO? inch long. On Btiscus aculeatus. Not distinct, I think, 

 from S. Rtisci, Wallr. 



382. S. (Sph^eopsis) paldstris, Fr. in lit. The fruit is the same as in S. leptidea, Fr. 



383. S. (Sph^ropsis) Vinc^, Fr. in lit. The fruit is precisely the same in form as in 

 S. Hederm, supra. Length=0-0006 to 00007 inch. 



384. S. SETACEA, Pers. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 518. Tab. LIX. fig. 145, sporidia, x 450. Sporidia 

 biseriate, colourless or greenish, arcuate, usually tapering to a point at each extre- 

 mity, but sometimes (though rarely) rounded at the ends, 00006 inch long, apparently 

 septate ; but the apparent septum is, I think, only the line of contact of the bipartite 

 endochrome. 



Div. 28. Depazea. 



385. S. (Hendersonia) cornicola, Dec. ; Fr. S. M. ii. 530. Tab. LIX. fig. 146, fruit, 

 X 325. No asci. Fruit consisting of elliptical, triseptate, pale-brown spores, 0'0004 

 to 0-0006 inch long, borne on long peduncles. 



386. S. (Depazea*) vagans, Fr. S. M. ii. 532. No asci. The perithecia contain long 

 filiform or fusiform bodies, precisely like those figured under S. Juglcmdis, where, 

 however, the bodies are not spores, but peduncles. Whether this is so in the present 

 case, I am uncertain. 



387. S. (Depazea) TJvarle, Berk. Tab. LIX. fig. 147, fruit, x 325. Fruit not con- 

 tained in asci, colourless, elliptical, subglobose or subturbinate, 0'0002 to 0*0004 inch 

 long. On leaves of TJvaria triloba. Spots round or irregular, brown in the centre, 

 becoming much darker towards the edge. Perithecia very small, black. 



388. S. (Depazea) fraxinicola, MS. ; marked also " Sphceria lichenoides." Tab. LIX. 

 fig. 148, fruit, X highly. Fruit not contained in asci, irregular in shape, being 

 elhptical or subturbinate, or even subcymbiform, 0-0002 to 0'0003 inch long ; spots 

 round or irregular, brown, with a dark margin. Perithecia small and black. 



389. S. Drymedis, Berk. Tab. LIX. fig. 149, sporidia, x 325. Sporidia biseriate, colour- 

 less, uniseptate, the two portions of unequal width, 0'0005 inch long. Perithecia 

 small, black, seated upon quite white, somewhat impressed, margined spots. This is 

 a true Sphceria with the habit of a Depazea. On dead leaves of Dri/tuis, Island of 

 Juan Fernandez, May 1830. 



390. S. (Depazea) pallor. Berk. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, series 1. vol. vi. p. 362. pi. 11. 

 fig. 2. Tab. LIX. fig. 150, fruit, X 325. Fruit not contained in asci, colourless or with 



* Depazea, Fr. Perithecium carbonaceous, subinnate, mouthless, opening in a circuinscissilc manner or dehisciag 

 at the apex. Nucleus consisting of tliread-like sporophores j spores acrogenous, simple. 



