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

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    SPIIiERIACEI. 2479. Valsa irhodophila. JB.dsBr. Rose-twig Valsella. Pustules minute, convex, raising the cuticle; ostiola minute cv-en, shinmg; asci clavate ; sporidia cylindrical, oblong, curved' On dead rose twigs. Orton Wood. Pustules minute, lifting up the cuticle, which separates from them • disc convex ; ostiola minute, shining, even; asci clavate, containing eight sausage-shaped sporidia ( 0004 in.; -01 m.m. long.—fi. di Br. 2480. Valsa quernea. Curr. Cluster-spored Valsella. Peritliecia ? Sporidia slightly curved, simple, linear, colourless, sub-hyaline, crowded at the apex.—Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 48,/. 141 B ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 856. On oak twigs. Sporidia (•00n2--0003 in.) •005--007 m.m., crowded together at the apex of the ascus, as in many Pezizos. S CircinatcB. 2481. Valsa pulchella. Fr, Beautiful Valsella. Spermogokia.—Perithecia conico-cylindrical, mixed with the ascophorous perithecia; spermatia linear, straight.—TuZ, Car». ii.p.l09. AscoPHOEE. — Perithecia globose, decumbent, circinating; ostiola very long, flexuous, obtuse ; asci obovate, linear ; spori- dia cylindrical, curved, simple, obtuse, hyaline.—Fr. S.V.S.p. 412. Fckl. exs.no. 618. S.pulchella, Fr. S.M.ii.p. 4.06. Fries. exs.no.l4:Q. Nees.f. 333. Moug. exs.no. 219). Eng. Fl.y.p. 251. Cryptosphceria pulchella, Grev. t. 67. Calosphceriaprinceps. Tuk Carp. ilp. 109. t. 13, f. 17-22. On branches of birch and cherry. Chiefly in subalpine dis- tricts. [United States.] 2482. Valsa quaternata. Fr. Quaternate Valsella. Spermogokia.—Nucleus pallid ; spermatia, at length curved, very slender, orange.—Ncemaspora crocea, Moug. exs. no. 177. Fckl. exs. no. 634, 635. Eng. Fl. v.p. 355. Ascophore.—Perithecia generally grouped four together, naked, decumbent; ostiola short, obtuse, even, pierced; sporidia biseriate, almost colourless, cylindrical, curved.—Fr. S.V.S.p.