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rose-coloured, with a punctiform impressed ostiolum, and radiated ; 
sporidia fusiform, triseptate, constricted at the division, each cell 
with a large nucleus. 
On a piece of cord. Glasnevin Botanic Garden. 
Sporidia *0012 x *00025 in. 
Sphaeria Empetri. Fr. Sys. ii., 522. 
Gregarious or scattered, innate, black, at first smooth and. 
shining, afterwards flattened and rugose ; ostiolum papillate ; 
sporidia linear, uniseptate, pale brown. — B. ^ Br.Ann. No. 
1627. 
On leaves of Empetrum nigrum. 
Asci *002 in. long , sporidia pale brown, linear, uniseptate, 
*007 in. long. 
Sphaeria (Sordaria) curvula. var. aloides. Winter, Sordarien, 
p. 38. 
Sordaria aloides, Fckl. F. Rhen, No. 2549. 
Perithecia crowned with three or four tufts of erect bristles. 
On cow dung. Shrewsbury. 
Sphaeria (Obtectae) applanata. Niessl. 
Perithecia scattered or sparsely gregarious, covered by the 
epidermis, minute, rounded, flattened, umbilicate at the apex, 
papillate, dark brown ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia oblong, obtuse, 
uniseptate, constricted, upper cell a little inflated. — Didymosphceria 
applanata, Niessl, Hedwigia, 1875, p. 149. 
On raspberry canes. Worcester. Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S. 
Sporidia *016 x *005-*006 m.m. 
Sphaeria (Diaporthe) Epilobii. FcM. Sym. Myc. p. 2^06. 
Stroma very thin, effused, subcortical, black ; perithecia nestling 
beneath the bark, depressed, black ; ostiola papillaeform, very 
minute ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia oblong-ovate, attenuated 
towards each end, uniseptate, quadrinucleate, hyaline. 
On stems of Epilohium. Dinmore. 
Sporidia *01 x *005 m.m. 
Sphaeria (Diaporthe) Labiatae. Coohe. 
Immersed in the blackened stem, loosely gregarious ; ostiola 
long, erect, spiniform ; asci clavate ; sporidia narrowly lanceolate, 
uniseptate, nucleate. 
On stems of Prunella. Dinmore. 
There are such minute differences in many of the species of this 
group Diaporthe, that a critical revision will soon become an 
absolute necessity. 
Sporidia *01-*012 m.m. long. 
Sphaeria (Diaporthe) Vincae. Coohe. Fungi. Britt. \\., Ido. 
Perithecia immersed, occupying definite spots, circumscribed by 
a black line ; ostiola papillate, scarcely elongated ; asci subclavate ; 
sporidia lanceolate, quadrinucleate. 
On stems of Vinca. Forden. 
Sporidia *02-*022 m.m. long. 
