Handbook of British fungi : with full descriptions of all the species, and illustrations of the genera / by M.C. Cooke.

Date:
1871
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    SPHJSRTACEl. Gen. 350. MELANCONXS, Tul, Stroma regular, orbicular or ovate, conical or pulvinate ; conidia simple or multilocular, often oozing out in a black mass ; spermatia shortly filiform, curved, Perithecia globose, semi-immersed, with short necks, circinating; sporidia two, Fig. 386. or many celled, hyaline or coloured.— ^ Tul. Carp. ii.p. 115. {Figs. 386, 387.) 2454. Melanconis stilbostoma. Tul. Birch Melanconis. CoKiDiA.—Stroma elevated, prominent, white; conidia com- pact, subglobose, olive, or olive- brown.—Melanconium bicolor, Nees. f. 27. Corda. i. /. 83, 34. Fckl. exs. no. 84. Rahh. exs. no. 590. M. hetnlinum, Schm. ^ Kze. exs. no. 208. Fckl. exs. no. 85. Moug. exs. no. 670. Fries, exs. no. 299. M. elevatum, Corda. iii. /. 60. Didy- mosporium elevatum, Lk. Sp. vi. p. 94. Fr. S.M. iii.p. 486. D. betulinum, Grev. t. 273. {Fig. 386.) Spermogonia.—Nucleus pallid ; spermatia at length curved, very slender, orange.—Nemaspora crocea, Fries, exs. no. 107. Nemaspora aurea, Rabh. exs. no. 584. Libertella betidina, Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. (1830), t. 5,/. 4. AscopHORE.—Perithecia in circles, covered with awaxy dirty- white disc ; ostiola prominent, scattered, bursting forth, and at length obliterating the disc ; sporidia biseriate, colourless, acu- minate-elliptic, constricted, endochrome bipartite.— Tul. Carp. ii. p. 120, 1.14,/. 1-12. Fckl. exs. no. 590. Sphceria stilbostoma (in part). Fr. S.M. n.p. 403. Fr. exs. no. 145. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 48,/. 140. Desm. exs. no. 757. Moug. exs. no. 962. {Fig. 387.) On birch. [United States.] Fig. 387. 2455. Melanconis alni. Tul. Alder Melanconis. Conidia.—Stroma elevated, latent; conidia compact, globose, or subglobose, very small, pelucid.—Melanconium spharoideum,