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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    multiseptate.—Fr. S.M. \\. p.hOQ. Berk. Ann. N.71. no. 189, 639*, t. 11, /. 26. Sow. t. 394, /. 3. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 59,/. 133. Cooke exs. no. 264. Sphceria carduorum, Wallr. Fl. Germ. iv.j). 805. Rliaphidospora carduorum, Tul. Carp.n.p. 256. Fckl. Sym.Myc.p. 125. Fckl. exs.no. 786. Ehaphidospora dis- seminans, Fckl. exs. no. 780. Ophiobolus disseminans, Beiss. Hedw. 1854, no. 6. On thistles and burdock. Common. [Up. & Mid. Carolina.] The sporidia at first contain numerous nuclei without articulations, later, however, the articulations are very manifest, about twenty. One articula- tion swollen, usually the second. 2703. Sphaeria ulnaspora, CooUe. Bent-spored.nettle Sphasria. Fig. 396. Perithecia scattered, covered by the cuticle, depressed, blapk; mouth large, piercing the cuticle; asci cylindrical; sporidia linear, length of the ascus, unequally triseptate and constricted; joints becoming 2-3 or more septate, without constriction, bent angularly when free, twisted in the ascus, hyaline, yellowish. On nettle stems. Shere. The perithecia are large and flattened, after the manner of S. doliohm, covered by tlie cuticle, through which they are visible when moist, scarcely when dry. The sporidia are very curious, being twisted near the apex oi the ascus, when free they are bent angularly, like a knee joint, with two or three constricted septa at unequal distances. Quite distinct trom tHe truit S. acum inata, and very different from that S. conrformis. ' (Fig. 396, sporidium.J 2704. Sphaeria herpotricha. JfV. Hairy Grass Sphseria. Scattered; perithecia free, subcorneal, black, covered with decumbent brown hairs ; ostiolum subpapillaeform ; asci long, clavate; sporidia acicular, very long, contammg numerous sporules.—Fr. S.M.ii. p. 504. Fries, exs. no. 52. Rhaphidospora herpotricha, Tul. Carp. n.p. 255. Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 125. Rha- phidospora Lacroixii, Mont. Syll.p. 251. Fckl exs. no. 781. On dead grass stems, and on Carices.