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VIII. FUNGI. 
[ Nectria . 
1. jVo polythalama. Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii.* 203. t. 106./. 15. Tufted, 
bright scarlet. Perithecia ovate, umbilicate at the apex or depressed. Spo- 
ridia inany-septate, oblong. 
Northern Island : on dead bark, J. I). II. 
2. N. illudens, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 203. Scattered or crowded, but 
not tufted, globose, bright ochreous or cinnabar-red, dimpled at the apex, 
warted, the warts answering to large cells. Sporidia broad, elliptic, 1-sep- 
tate, as broad as long. 
Northern Island: on dead bark, J. D. II. 
74. SPH2ERIA, Haller. 
Stroma 0, or spurious and formed of mycelium. Perithecia vaiious, 
vertical, firm, black or dark, often with a bark. Asci perfect. Sporidia 8. 
An immense genus, found in all parts of the world and on various substances, some even 
under salt-water. 
§ 1. Cs.S'exTOSiE..— Perithecia crrspitose, superficial, free, seated on a mycelioid stroma 
that bursts through the cuticle. 
1. S. fragilis, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 205. t. 106./. 7. Forming scattered 
clusters of minute, brownish, opaque, obtuse, brittle perithecia, breaking 
away when still full of spores ; mouth obsolete. Sporidia shortly fusiform, 
hyaline, often broader at one end, 1-septate. 
Northern Island : on the under surface of leaves of Eurybia furfur acea, Colenso. 
2. S. pullularis, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 205. t. 106./. 6. Forming 
specks of a few crowded subglobose opaque dark brown perithecia ; mouth 0, 
or a papilliform prominence. Asci subcyliudric. Sporidia of 2 opposed 
cones. 
Northern Island : on leaves of Leucopogon Fraseri, Colenso. 
3. S. rasa. Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 205. Forming neat round clusters. 
Perithecia oblong, crowded below, above free, convex, not collapsing, opaque 
as if minutely downy, but rough from the prominence of the septa of the 
cells ; orifice minute. Asci cylindric, slightly attenuate downwards. Spo- 
ridia very numerous, curved. 
Northern Island : on Weinmannia leaves, Colenso. 
4. S. Saubinetii, Mont, and Burieu ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 206. 
Erumpent. Perithecia solitary or slightly aggregate, brown, globose, at length 
collapsed and umbilicate. Asci diffluent. Sporidia fusiform, lunulate, 3-5- 
septate. — Gibbera Saubinetii , Mont. Syllog. 252. 
Northern Island : on Monocotyledonous leaves, Colenso. (Algeria.) 
5. S. pulicaris, Fries ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 206. Minute, tufted, 
forming a blackish stroma with the bark. Perithecia stipitate, superficial, 
crowded, opaque, flat, finally sub-cupshaped. 
Northern Island : on dead sticks, Colenso. (Europe.) 
