1t i.
fi -J!
On walnut twigs.
Fuckel regards this simply as a Diplodia.
2620. Sp hæ ria lonicexae. Sow. “ Honeysuckle Sphæria."
Gregarions erumpent; perithecia globose, nearly free, thin
black, soon torn and cnp-shaped; ostiolmA simple; sporidia
< S9r ? f i ’ F endochrome tripartite.k,So^
271 /■ Y I “ ■ Eng. Fl. v p
„ s” /™ “ V i
On honeysuckle.
Sporidia ('OOOd-'OOOe in.) -Ol.-OlS m.m.
[Mid. Carolina.]
2621. Sp hæ ria o b lite r a n s . B .& B r . “ Bleached-fir
Sphæria.”
^ 7 “ : S o T i ; ; i r "
On bare fir-poles. Mar. Batheaston.
Coprophilous.
Fig. 394.
2622.^ Sp hæ ria b o v iU a . Coole. “ Tailed cow-dung Sphæria.”
Perithecia scattered, sub-globose, semi-immersed, black;
ostiola prominent, pierced; sporidia 8, cylindrical, long, flexuous
containing numerous nuclei; each extremity furnished
s i h / r r g “ ! T » " -
On cow dung. Aug. Shere. (Dr. Capron.)
F u l e l (”yt" 2I5T “ “ “20T Z t T ^ r ® Ceiyophora miraUUs of
Culmicolous.
1 6 2 3 . S p h æ r ia a r u n d in a c e a . Sow. “ Heed Sphæria."
C o n i d i a .—Stroma none ; conidia erumpent, compact, g l o b o s e ,
pellucid, blackish.—Melanconium sphærospermum, Fr. S.M. iii.p.
489. Rahh. F .E. no. 179. Fckl. exs. no. 86. Bot. Zeit. 1859, i. 11,
/. 5. See no. 1387, ante.
P y c n i d i a .—Erumpent, linear, with scarcely any stroma;
perithecia in one or two rows, connate, with a very obsolete
ostiolum ; stylospores oblong, simple.—Sphoeropsis arundinacea,
Berk. Outl.p. 316.
A s o o p h o r e .—Somewhat covered, oblong, minute, greyish-
black ; stroma scarcely distinct ; perithecia very minute, stipate,
rather compressed in 2 or 3 series; ostiola obsolete, white within;
asci clavate ; sporidia oblong, triseptate.—S. Godini, Desm. exs.
no. 439. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1846, 7?. 49. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. f.
49, / . 202. S. arundinacea. Sow. t. 336. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H.
no. 603. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 4 9 ,/. 200. Berk. exs. no. 82.
Eng. FL y.p. 256. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 429. Fckl. exs. no. 907. Ple-
ospora arundinacea, Fckl. Sym. M yc.p. 137, t. iii./. 28.
On dead reeds. Spring. Common. [Low. Carolina.]
“ Messrs. Berkeley and Broome state that S. Godini is identical with S.
arundinacea, hut in the Kew specimens the species differ in the colour of the
sporidia, and in the number of septa, in S. arundinacea they are yellowish-
brown, 3-5 septate, and in Godini colourless and uniseptate-”—
Sporidia-0010-'0016 in. The difference is most probably only one of age.
2 6 2 4 . S p hæ x ia c u lm ifx a g a . Fr. “ E rumpent Grass Sphæria.”
Scattered ; perithecia covered, erumpent, somewhat compressed,
black ; ostiolum short, naked, conical ; sporidia curved,
fusiform, multiseptate, one of the articulations swollen.—F r .S .
M. ii. p. 510. Fries exs. no. 373. Eng. F I.y .p . 275. B. & Br. Ann.
N.H. no. 614. Fckl. exs. no. 2245. S. longa. Sow. t. 303, f . 4.
Pleospora culmifraga, Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 137, t. 3 ,f. 21.
On culms of grass, &c. Common.
Two varieties are published by Desmazieres, and a third has been found
at Eudloe, more highly developed, the perithecia crowded, and shghtly hispid,
and the acute ostiola elevating the cuticle.
b. CeratostomcB.
Ostiolum elongated, cylindrical, free, longer than the perithe-
cium, emergent.—Fr. S.M. ii. p. 322.