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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    On tlie under surface of oak leaves. Shere, Surrey Dec 1965. (Dr. E. Capron.) Closely allied to /. inisiida, but smiiller, and differing in fructification. At pi'usent I Lave only seen it upon two leaves. 2804. Xsothea saligna. B. Sallow Isotbea.' Uni-multilocnlar, convex, brown-black, subunibonate in tbe centre ; asci cylindrical; sporidia filiform, simple.—Berk. Outl. ]i. 392. Berlc.exs. no. 191. Plioma salignwn, Fi\ S.M.W. 546. Fries exs. no. 283. Fng.Fl.r.]^. 283. Sph. salicina, Sow. t. 372, f. 1. Moug. exs. no. 268. Linospora ccqveoe, FcJcl. Sym. Mgc. p. 124. Fckl.exs.no. 879. On fallen sallow leaves. Winter and Spring. DXCHJENA, Fr. Peritbecia subcarbonaceous, elliptic, closed, bursting by a longitudinal fissure; nucleus and asci cliffluent. {Fig. 406.) 2805. Dichsena strobilina. Fr. Fir- cone Dichteua. Pycnidia.—Peiitbecia gregarious, ir- regular ; stylospores almond-shaped, hya- line ; endochrome bipartite.—Hendersonia strobilina, Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. p. 329. Cooke, exs. no. 341. AscoPHOEE.— Gregarious, erumpent; perithecia rather irre- gular, rounded at first, soft, dirty-brown, then black, opening by a longitudinal fissure ; sporidia fusiform, slightly curved, trisep- tate, sometimes each cell nucleate, hyaline.—Fr. S. V.S. p. 403. Sph. strohilina, Fr. S.M. ii.p. 495. Fries, exs. no. 318. Eng. Fl. r.p. 271. Fckl. exs. no. 790. On fir cones. The stylosporous condition is far more common than the ascigerous state, found by Dr. Capron at Shere. Sporidia (•0004--0005 in.) ■01.-0127 m.m. (Fig. 406.) DiCHJSNA RUGOSA, Fr. I think should be included with Lichens ; Eabenhorst divides it into two species imderthe names of Psilospora faginea on beech, and Psilospora quercus on oak.