Rev. SI. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 383 



of the kind is figured by Bayrhoffer, Einiges liber Lichenen, t. 3. 

 f. 12. See also Gardeners' Chronicle, Dec. 20, 1851 . The apical 

 spores in Lichenopsis of Schweinitz are evidently of the same 

 nature. 



Plate XII. fig. 36. a. Ascus; b. young sporidia; c. older; d. young 

 sporidium showing the bulging septum ; e. sporidia (sometimes appendicu- 

 late) from S. perforans, Roberge. Fig. 37- Paraphyses of lichen bearing 

 conidia. All more or less magnified. 



651. 5. phaosiicta, Berk, in Antarct. Fl. Crypt, p. 59. tab. 68. 

 fig. 4. On Carex pendula, Thornhaugh, Norths. 



The antarctic specimens are on Hierochloe Brunnoniensis. The 

 sporidia are brown, and resemble those of S. fusca. 



Plate XII. fig. 38. a. Ascus ; b. sporidia. Both more or less magnified. 



652. S. (Foliicolse) eucrypta, n. s. Tecta ; peritheciis ovatis 

 teneris, e floras sparsis ramosis enatis ; collo brevissimo ; ascis 

 clavatis ; sporidiis lineari-fusiformibus ; endochromatibus pluri- 

 bus imequahbus. On leaves of Carex pendula, Batheaston, Jan. 

 1850. 



Scarcely visible unless the leaf is held up to the light ; peri- 

 thccia delicate, ovate, with a very short neck and round aperture 

 like a little India-rubber bottle, springing from threads which 

 are mostly branched at right angles. Asci very delicate, clavate ; 

 sporidia j^th of an inch long, lineari-fusiform, with several en- 

 dochromes varying much in size. 



A pretty species, but very liable to be overlooked, unless the 

 leaves on which it grows chance to be saturated with moisture. 



Plate XII. fig. 40. a. Asci ; b. sporidia; c. threads accompanying the 

 perithecia, and with which they are partially clothed. 



653. S. (Foliicolre) helicospora, n. s. Tecta; peritheciis subglo- 

 bosis ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis linearibus longissimis sphaliter 

 involutis. On leaves of Cijperacece, West of England. 



Distinguished from the former by its extremely long spirally 

 disposed sporidia, which resemble those of Hysterium apiculatum. 



654. £. (Foliicolse) palustris, n. s. Tecta; peritheciis glo- 

 bosis ; ostiolo minuto papillrci'ormi, ore tandem rotundo apcrto. 

 Ascis linearibus. Sporidiis ellipticis eurvulis uniseptatis utrinque 

 appendiculatis. On dead leaves of Iris, Carex, &c, Batheaston, 

 Dec. 1819. 



Scattered, completely covered by the cuticle, globose at first, with 

 a minute papilkcform ostiolum, at length opening with a regular 

 round aperture, the edges of which adhere closely to the matrix. 

 Asci linear; sporidia uniseriate or rarely biseriate from slipping 

 oyer each other, cymbiform, brown, uniseptate, furnished at 

 either end with a hyaline appendage rather shorter than the 



