V E RM IC U L A R IA t r i c h e l l a .
Minute hairy Vermicularia.
C l a s s a n d O h d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, T i™ .— N a t . O r d . H YPO X Y LA ,
De Cand.
G EN ERIC CHARACTER.
Perithecium depressum, astomum, lacerato-dehiscens. Asci vel sporidia annu-
lati, vermiculati.
Perithecium depressed, destitute of orifice, bursting irregularly. Asci or
sporidia annulate, vermiculate.
s p e c i f ic c h a r a c t e r .
V e r m i c u l a r i a trichella; sparsa, minima : peritheciis astomis depresso-ovatis,
nigris, pilis longissimis divergentibus vertice obsessis.
V. scattered, very minute ; perithecia mouthless, depressed, ovate, black,
the summit covered with very long diverging hairs.
V e r m i c u l a r i a trichella. Fries, MSS.
S p h æ r i a tr i c h e l la , Fries, Obs. Mycol. 2. p. 3 3 2 .—Vet. Ac. Handl. 18 1 7 , p. 256.
Scler. Suec. No. 2 0 3 .—Syst. Myc. v. 2 . p. 515.
S p h æ r i a Dematium, g, Pers, Syn. Fung. p . 8 8 .
H a b . On the dead leaves of the Iv y (Hederá Helix), and other plants, in
autumn and spring. Near Foxhall, Edinburgh.
Very minute, scattered, b u t usually occurring in great numbers on the
same leaf. Perithecia black, depressed-ovate, without any orifice, b u t
bearing on the summit a tu ft of very long, diverging, slender black
hairs ; the perithecia are not immersed in the substance of the leaf, but
appear to originate beneath the true epidermis only. Sporidia linear-
oblong, with several divisions.
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A plant already figured in this work, the Cryptosphoeria
capillata {Sphoeria phoeocomes, F r i e s ), also belongs to the
genus now adopted,—defined for the first time in the “ Systema
Orhis Vegetabilis.” It contains, besides, the Sphoeria
comata, capillata, and Dematium,—all distinguished by a