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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    2564. Sphaexia canescens. Pert. Hoary SphaBria. Perithecia aggregate, globose and ovate, hairy, papillate, hoary ; Bporidia colourless, straight, or curved, subacuminate.— Peru. Syn. \\.p. 448. Fr.S.M. '\\.p. 261. Fries, exs. no. 50. Eng. Fl.Y.p.2Ql. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii.t. 67, f.U. Berk.exs.no. 301. On decayed wood. ' [Low. Carolina.] Peritliecia forming a dense Btratum of a cinereous brovniish or greenish hue! veSTairy, b^^i^tle. Sporidia COOll-'OOU in.) -025-085 m.m. long. 2565. Sphaeria strigosa. A.^S. Bristly Spha3ria. Perithecia aggregate, globose and ovate, papillary, beset all round with long, rigid, hoary hairs ; sporidia elongated some- what curved, pale tawny, simple.—i^r. S.M.n.pAA^ A. ^ b. t. 5, /. 7. Eng. Fl. v. p. 261. Leptospora strigosa, Fckl. bym. Myc. p 144. Sph. mucida, Fckl. exs. no. 948. ' On decayed wood. [Low. & Mid. Carolina.] Distineuished from S. canescens by its closer habit, and tough, not brittle substance The hairs of both, though giving the penthecia a boary appear- ance ^re not always white, but frequently of a browjish or yellowish hue. -M.Ib. Mr. Currey does not think the two species distinguishable. 2566. Sphsexia exilis. A. ^ S. Hairy Pine Sph^ria. Black, very minute; perithecia globose, then depressed, at length collapsed, concave, astomous clothed ^^th short hairs ; Bporidia cylindrical, curved, simple, hjalme.--A.Jr S. t 4. T^Br. Ann. N.H. no. 606. Fckl. exs. no. 2023. Nitschkia exihs, Fckl. Sym.Myc.p.lQb. ^ v -i On pine twigs. Wraxall. [Low. Carolma.] •567 Sph«Tia superficialis. Curr. Currey's Hairy Sphseria. Perithecia hairy, subglobose, very small, seated on a hairy Bubiculum : sporidia uniseriate, overlappmg, elliptic a , or sub- tuZat barely slightly curved, colourless.-C«rr. L^nn. Trans. xxii. p. 317,^.57,/. 25. On fir wood. Sporidia (•0003--0004in.) •0076--01 m.m. binucleate. 2568. Sph«»a calva. Tode. Tode's Hairy Sphisria. Perithecia scattered, depresso-globose, papillary, even, black,