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Currey had in view, I find no distinction whatever between them, 
therefore Spheria rubicola, Curr., must give way before the much older 
name proposed by Madame Libert. M. Westendorp is certainly mis- 
taken in referring Spheria Ruborum, Lib., to Spheria callimorpha, 
Iont. 
14. SPHÆRTA ALLIARLE, Ased. Asci somewhat clavate (more nearly 
cylindrical), 8-spored. Sporidia slightly curved, 3~5-septate, the middle 
dissepiment often a little constricted.—Rabh. Fungi Europæi Exs. 
n. 261. S. doliolum, Pers. (partly). On stems of Erysimum Alliaria. 
Shere, Feb. 1866 (Dr. E. Capron.)—This species is almost too closely 
allied to S. doliolum. The matrix is very much blackened in all the 
specimens examined, and the form and arrangement of the perithecia 
differ slightly from that species. Professor de Notaris does not appear 
to recognize it as distinct. (Fig. 19, ascus and sporidia, x 300. 
15. SPHÆRIA (GNoMONIA) PETIOLI, Fuckel. Simple, gregarious ; 
perithecia always covered, globose; epidermis inflated, black. Ostiole 
prominent, flexuose, terete, thickened at the base, double the length of 
the perithecium, blackish. Asci clavate, 8-spored, sporidia narrowly 
fusiform, 3—5-septate hyaline.—Fungi Rhenani Exs. n. 537; Enum. 
Fung. Nass. p. 68; De Not. Schema di Class. p.49.—On petioles of Acer 
Pseudo-platanus. Sydenham, 1863; Holly Lodge, Highgate, Feb. 1866. 
Not uncommon.—Closely allied to S. setacea, although Professor de 
Notaris places it in a different genus. (Fig. 18, ascus and sporidia, 
x 30 
16. SPHÆRIA ARAUCARLE,7. sp.; maculis pallidis; peritheciis am- 
phigenis, sparsis, tectis, sub epidermide elevatis, demum depressis, per- 
foratis; ascis linearibus ; sporidiis uniseriatis, ellipticis, uniseptatis, hya- 
linis vel melleis.—On dead leaves of Araucaria imbricata. eatishead, 
Norfolk, Sept. 1865.—8Seated on pallid spots. Perithecia on either or 
both surfaces, scattered, covered by the epidermis, at first raising the 
epidermis in small dark pustules, at length depressed in the centre and 
perforated. Asci linear. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, uniseptate, 
slightly constricted, obtuse at the extremities, and hyaline or amber 
our. (Fig. 12, ascus and sporidia, x 300. | 
* SPHÆRIA EPIDERMIDIS, Fr. The specimens of this plant which I 
have recently collected on bramble stems, are in the majority of in- 
stances tetrasporous, a few 8-spored asci being found mixed with those 
containing only 4. In all other points this Spheria accords with 
