S T R O M A T O S PHÆ R IA f r a g i f o r m i s , v a r . loevis.
Strawberry-like Stromatosphoeria,— Smooth variety.
C l a s s a n d O e d e e CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn N a t . O e d . HYPOXYLA,
De Cand. Grev.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Receptaculum varium, sessile, liberum vel erumpens. Sphoeruloe omnino latentes
vel ore exserto ; intus massa gelatinosa sporulifera instructoe.
Receptacle various, sessile, free or bursting through the bark. Spherules
concealed or furnished with an exserted orifice, filled with a gelatinous,
sporuliferous mass.
S PE C IF IC CHARACTER.
Stromatosphæria fragiformis ; globosa, miniato-rubiginosa, intus atronitens;
sphærulis periphæricis, ostiolis plus minusve prmninulis.
S. globose, purplish-red, shining black within ; spherules situated in the
circumference, with more or less prominent orifices.
Sphæria fragiformis, Pers. Annalen der Botanik, 11. p. 21. t. 2. f. 5___
Ejusd. Disp. p. iÿ .— Ejusd. Syn. Fung. p. g. 1 .1. f. 1 -2— Schum. Soelland.
2. p. l68.— Alb. et Schwein, p. L — Nees, Syst. t. 40. f. SOg.— Mmg. et Nestl.
St. Crypt. No. 273.—Schmidt, Mycol. Heft, 2. p. 25. t. 1. f. 20.—Schwein.
Syn. Fung. Carol. No. 14.—Hook. Fl. Scot. 2. p. 4.—Fries, Syst. Mycol. 2.
p. 332.
Sphæria bicolor, De Cand. Fl. Fram;. ed. S. v. 2. p. 286— Ejusd. Syn. p. 59.
Sphæria ru b ra , Willd. Berol. p. d¡\5.fide Fries.
S p h æ r ia radians, Tode, Fung. 2 . p. 29. t. 12. f. 101.
S p h æ r ia lycoperdoides. With. Bot. A rr. ed. 6 . v. 4. p. 466.—Äri/o Fl. Cantab.
ed. 3. p. 570— Purt. Midi. Fl. v. 2. p. 707.
H v p o x y lo n coccineum. Bull. Champ, p. 174. t. 495. f. 2.
L y c o p e rd o n variolosum, Linn— Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 645 Sow. Fung. t. 2 7K
H ab. Oll dead branches of the common Beech (Fagus sylvatica) ; rarely on
rotten wood or branches of other trees. Not unfrequent in woods in
the autumn.
Gregarious, globose, from the size o f a pea to that of a small hazel nut, pale
when young, at length purplish-red, becoming blackish in decay. The
substance is firm and dense ; the interior deep black, and shining. The
spherules are of an oval form, and disposed in the circumference, their
orifices m ostly projecting in such a manner as to render the surface granulated
or rather tuberculated. Sometimes, however, the spherules remain
concealed, and the surface is permanently even. Sporules oval,
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