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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    On decaying wood. Common. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.] Scattered or densely gregarious, brittle, the base immersed in the matrix, subiculum sometimes present on one part of the wood, and wanting on an- other. Sporidia (■002--0026 in.) •05--06m.m. Sporidia hyaline. 2554. Sphseriatristis. TocLe. Black nestling Sphseria. Perithecia crowded, globose, punctato-rugulose, collapsed, mouthless, black, seated ona strigose snbiculum ; sporidia minute, oblong, curved, biseptate, or trinucleate.—Tode.f. 67. Pers. Ic, S,- Des. 1.12, f. 5; 6. Fr. S.M. ii.jy. 444. Fries, exs. no. 386. Eng. Fl.Y.2). 260. Ann.N.H. no. 618* 181. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 67, f. 11 (?) Cooke exs. no. 269. On dead sticks. Eesemblingf at first sight one of the larger Eelminthosporia. Perithecia minute, collapsing. 2555. Sphaeria biformis. Pers. Two-formed Sphjeria. Perithecia subovate, slightly tuberculate, black, clothed with strigose hairs of the same colour; ostiola somewhat elongated Pers. Syn. t. 2, /. 14. Ic. Pict. t. 24., f. 4. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 448. Eng. Fl.Y. p. 2QI. On wood. var. /3. texrestxis. Perithecia crowded, seated upon a crust- like, strigoso-villous subiculum. Sow. t. ^ld,f.l. Eng.Fl.r.p. 261. On the naked earth. 2556. Sphaexiainvestans. Cooke. Investing Sphteria. Gregarious, or scattered, globose, papillate, brown-black, erum- pent, throwing off the cuticle, seated upon, and at first covered by a dirty-brown woolly subiculum, at length the upper portion of the perithecia naked ; sporidia broadly lanceolate, uniseptate of two opposed cones, constricted at the septum, surrounded by a broad hyaline membrane, each cell with a large basal, and small apical nucleus, hyaline. On rotten twigs. Shere. (Dr. Capron.) lo T*^?® °^ the investing membrane of the sporidia is broadly lanoeo- late, and not constricted, length (■0008--0009 in.) ^oiuiy lanoeo-