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CUCURBITARIA e l o n g a t a .
Long Black Cucurbitaria.
C la s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, iiím—N a t . O r d . HYPOX Y LA ,
De Cand. Grev.
GEN ER IC CHARACTER.
Sphærulæ corneæ, cæspitosæ, liberæ, receptáculo insidentes, raro primo inclusæ ;
intus massa gelatinosa sporulifera instructoe.
Spherules corneous, clustered, free, fixed on a receptacle, rarely at first included.
Interior filled with a gelatinous sporuliferous mass.
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
C u c u r b i t a r i a e lo n g a ta ; nigra ; stromate Imgissimo ; peritheciis primo im-
mersis, dein erumpentibus, confertis, globosis, circa ostiolum papillceforme, annulato
depressis.
C. black ; stroma very long ; perithecia a t first immersed, at length sessile,
crowded, globose, orifice papilliform, with a circular depression around
it.
S p h æ r i a e lo n g a ta . Fries, Obs. 1. p . 1 7 5 .— Fet. Ac. Handl. 18 1 7 , p- 109—
Sclerom. Suec. Fxsicc. N o . 233.—Syst. v. 2. p . 422,
S p h æ r ia scabra, Schmidt, Myc. Heft, 1. p. 58.—Deutschl. Schwaem. N o . 203,
H ab. On branches of Robinia Pseudacacia, Coronilla Fmerus, Cytisus sessili-
folius, and TJlex europoeus. Captain W au ch and I find i t on the latter.
I t is not unfrequent on the moors and waste places about Edinburgh.
Stroma h a l f a n in c h o r le s s to n e a r tw o in c h e s in le n g th , r a t h e r n a r ro w , v a r
ia b le in th ic k n e s s . Perithecia n um e ro u s , g lo b o s e , a t firs t im m e rs e d ,
a f t e rw a r d s e v o lv e d a n d se s sile , m in u te ly g r a n u l a te d , s om e tim e s sm o o th
a c c o r d in g to F r ie s , o rific e p a p illifo rm , a n d s u r r o u n d e d w i th a d e p r e s s
io n , w h ic h g iv e s a f la ttis h a p p e a r a n c e to th e to p . Thecoe m u c h e lo n g
a t e d , lin e a r , c o n ta in in g 8 - 1 0 sp o rid ia . Sporidia o b lo n g , y e llow , comp
r e s s e d , m a r k e d w i th 3 - 4 tr a n s v e r s e s tr iæ , a n d 1 lo n g i tu d in a l o n e .
A variety occurs with few, somewhat scattered perithecia, and scarcely any
stroma. This is the var. simplex of F rie s , of which he has given a specimen
in Sclerom. Suec. No. 232.