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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    tiseptate, the second joint swollen.—Tode.f. 88. Fr. S.M. n.p. 508. Fr. exs. no. 86. Eng. Fl. y.p. 275. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 644. Leptosphceria complanata. Be Not. Schema, p. 62. On herbaceous stems. [Up. & Mid. Carolina.] Very variable in size. 2714. Sphaeria derasa. JB.^Br. Ragwort Sphaeria. Gregarious, small, black, hemispherical, covered with rigid black hairs, which ultimately disappear—except at the base ; asci clavate ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform-fiUform, slightly curved, with a row of nuclei, at length faintly septate.—B. ^ Br. Ann. no. 639*, t. xi.f. 25, b. S. calva, Johnst. Fl. Berw. On ragwort stems. Spring. One of the articulations of the sporidia is sometimes swollen. 2715. Sph«ria vectis. B. Br. «'Iris Sphaeria. Subcuticular; ostiola at length naked ; asci short, cylindrical ; sporidia oblong, 5 septate, the fourth articulation swollen.—B. ^• Br. Ann. N.H. no. 779,1.16,/. 16. Leptosphceria vectis, Be Not. Schema p. 62. On dead leaves of Irisfcetidissima. Covered by the cnticle, which is at length pierced by the black ostiolum, sometimes regularly diffused, sometimes forming ittle pale patches ; asci sKTurvedf cylindrical; sporidia oblong (-OOOl in.) -0025 m.m. long. 5-sep. tate, the fourth joint being much swoUen.—if. ^ Jir. 2716. Sphseria nigrans. Besm. Black Grass Sphserla. Minute, scattered, covered with the blackened epidermis ; pe- rithecia globose or subelliptic, depressed, base mvested with brownish hairs; ostiola erumpent, papiUa^form ; asci clavate ; sporidia fusiform, curved, subhyaline, ^-septate.-X'em Ann^c Nat. 1846. Exs. no. 1774. B. ?f Br. Ann. N.H. no. 640, t. 11,/. 27. Leptosphceria nigrans, Be Not. Schema p.Ql. On Bactylis glomerata. Feb. threads in the perithecia.—B. # Br.