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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    lum, grey witliin.—Fr. S.M. ii.p. 493. Fries, exs. no. 239. Eng. Fl.Y.p. 271. On walnut twigs. Fuckel regards this simply as a Diplodia. 2620. Sphseria lonicerae. Son. HoneyBUckle Sphaeria. Gregarious, erumpent; perifhecia globose, nearly free, thin, black, soon torn and cup-shaped; ostiolum simple; sporidia Tiniseriate, colourless, elliptical, endochrome tripartite.—Sow. t. 393,/. 6. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 492. Fries, exs. no. 349. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 271. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 59,/. 115 (not Fckl. Sym. Myc.) Cooke exs. no. 262. On honeysuckle. [Mid. Carolina.] Sporidia (•0004--0006 in.) 'Ol-'OIS m.m. 2621. Spheeria obliterans. B.&Br. Bleached-fir Sphferia. Perithecia scattered, half covered by the bleached fibres of the matrix, collapsing, astomous ; asci cylindrico-clavate ; spori- • dia uniseriate, obovate, triseptate, septa at length obliterated.— B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 890,1.11, f. 34. On bare fir-poles. Mar. Batheaston. Sporidia (-0007 in.) -0177 m.m. Septa at lengtli obliterated, tlieir position being still indicated by a slight constriction. Coprophilous. Fig. 394. 2622. Sphseria bovilla. Cooke. Tailed cow-dung Sphseria. Perithecia scattered, sub-globose, semi-immersed, black; ostiola prominent, pierced ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, long, flexu- ous containing numerous nuclei; each extremity furnished with a flexuous hair-like appendage, half the length of thespori- dium, hyaline, greenish. On cow dung. Aug. Shere. (Dr. Capron.) This curious species resembles in some respects the Cercophora mirahilis of Fuckel (Sm Myc. p. 245 t. vi. f. 20), but Dr. Capron is decidedly of opinion that the aW sporidia are quite mature, and never become ovate opaque- Wu wth hya^Hne appendages, as in that species. Sporidia without ap- pendages (-002 in.) -05 m.m long.