Obd. IX. Tribe II. 
FUNGI GASTEROMYCETES. 
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16399 Black roundish oblong scattered bursting through the epidermis. Orifice Irregular papillose [minute 
16400 Scatter, rather min. plano-convex blacl<. splitt. Epider. in centre and becom. umbilicat. Spor. naked very 
16401 Scattered, Perithecia immersed globose black concealed, Orifices dilated naked hemispherical 
16402 Scattered black shining plane : the margin slightly raised ; the epidermis united with the plant and 
bursting at the centre into 3-5 acute segments, Sporules naked oblong in 3-5 distinct masses 
16403 Gregarious often crowded, Spherules yellowish globose somewhat fleshy. Orifices short cylindrical sur- 
rounded by an orange web 
16404 Somew. innate parallel conflu. shin, black burst, with paral. slits, Thalkis black, Perith. in rows connate 
16405 Scattered, Perithecia immersed globose. Orifices min. convex peeping out of a black spot becom. bossed 
16406 Gregarious, Perithecia somewhat immersed ovate black. Orifice bursting conical acute 
16407 Gregarious, Perithecia covered ovate black. Orifices bursting equal smooth longer 
16408 Scattered under the epidermis which is very convex and ruptured in the centre. Mouth very short obtuse 
not exserted, Sporules oval in filiform tubes 
16409 Scattered globose with a very short rounded umbilicated mouth : at first the mouth only visible at length 
the spherule itself semi -exserted failing out in decay and leaving a cavity 
16410 Spherules minute scattered very numerous black round depress. Orifice papilliform piercing the epidermis 
like minute dots at length naked when it decays 
16411 Spherules excessively minute scattered forming dark greyish cloud-like longitudinal spots on the smooth 
stalks of plants : the orifice somewhat acute penetrating the epidermis 
b. Spherules without an evident orifice. 
16412 Parasitic on the leaves of dead grasses scattered brown black white within flat hemispherical : the apex 
furnished with a tuft of black rigid diverging hairs 
16413 Scattered or in small groups minute blackish roundish producing pale spots on the leaf 
16414 Scattered very gregarious fructiform somewhat shining rarely dehiscent 
16415 Excessively minute very gregarious so as to form dark cloud-like irregular spots on the leaf 
16416 Spherules very numerous punctiform glaucous or blueish-black rendering the leaf pale 
16417 Bursting forth lin. black with hardly any thallus, Perithecia in 1 or 2 rows somew. connate black inside 
16418 Gregar. conflu. cover, with a blackened epider. Perith. deform, black : disk finally burst, forth and opaque 
16419 Forming nearly equidistant spots upon the stems of large dead herbaceous plants, Very common 
* Spherules with an orifice, not hairy. 
16420 Black globose nearly smooth crowded : the orifice minute slightly papilliform 
16421 Fine red min, smooth gregar. glob, with a very min. papill. orifice, Spher. at length collapsed and concave 
16422 Black scattered gregarious roundish ovate acute shining : the mouth papilliform 
16423 Subgregar. or scattered sessile orange-colored smooth glob, destitute of orifice whit, and filament, at base 
16424 Perithecia glob, subimmers. Orifices promin. convex furnish, with an effused filament, strat. of a yell, color 
16425 Globose deformed brownish-black banded within with concentric layers, Perithecia oblong immersed 
16426 Convex pulvinate fuscous whole-colored inside, Perithecia globose. Orifices bossed 
16427 Effused thin flattened black, Perithecia subglobose prominent pimpled 
16428 Dark, Layer diffused branched, Perithecia oblong smooth pimpled 
16429 Elliptical smooth black white inside, Perithecia immersed ovate witliout orifice 
164'>0 Of a regular figure very flat contigu. dark extern, and internally, Perith. immers, ov. Orif. glob, promin. 
16431 Orbic. conv. separ. Layer white, Perithecia min. Orifices numer. disengaged glob, and rostell. somew. rug. 
16432 Pustular, Layer adhering to the bark and emerging. Disk palish. Orifices exserted oval and rostellate 
16433 Perithecia subovate, Orifices long thickened at end united in an opaque disk bursting transversely 
16434 Minute circinate, Perithecia about 6 ovate and converging. Orifices round somewhat tapering emerging 
16435 Caespitose growing to the surface, Perithecia stalked ovate acute smooth dark 
16436 Gregarious soft, Perithecia globose smooth somew. pimpled orange-red becoming concave by coUapsion 
16437 Scattered soft very small, Perithecia ovate smooth pimpled crimson 
16438 Dark. Perithecia thin globose smooth. Orifice papillseform 
1G439 Black shining, Perithecia globose rigid smooth. Orifice papillaaform 
16440 Sess. min. soft aggregated or scattered smooth blood-red, Perithecia subglob. collapsing. Orifice papilliform 
** Spherules with an orifice, hairy. 
16441 Rather large brownish-black shining globose with a papilliform orifice arising from a dense brown 
filamentous stratum which sometimes partly envelopes the sperules 
16442 Gregarious somewhat clustered quite black. Spherules roundish ovate somewhat tuberculate with short 
rigid scattered hairs. Orifice obtuse 
16443 Spherules minute crowded roundish : when young appearing like one mass of diverging brown hairs at 
length almost naked towards the apex and black. Orifice minute papilliform 
16444 Black gregar. hemispher. minutely granulat. : the apex naked somew. shin. ; the base hairy, Orif. papill. 
16445 Gregar.very crowd, ov. somew. acum. orange. Orifice indist. but the spherules escape in a pulverul. form 
16446 Gregarious rose-colored, Spherules ovato-globose subacute or papillose placed on a paler colored web 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
2424. Heterosphceria. From ir^d;, various, and Sphceria j but we do not know in allusion to what pecu- 
liarity. A small black dot-like plant. , „ 
2425. Sphceria. In allusion to the spherical figure of the species, which are exceedingly numerous and difti- 
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