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misphaerico-subglobosa, apice fuscescentia , caeterum undique 

 hyalina v. pallida, omnia apice abbreviatim in osculum com- 

 mune leviter mamillare abeunfcia; paraphyses tenuissimae et 

 laxe connexo-ramosae; asci ellipsoideo-cylindrici, 8-spori; sporae 

 hyalinae, circ. 52 |M longae et 24 ^< latae, oblongo-ellipsoideae, 

 utrinque late rotundato-obtusae, medio constrictae, parenchyma- 

 tice divisae. — Structura verrucarum (subinde geminatim con- 

 fluentium) Q.d Heufleriam pentagastricamMiiW, Arg. Lich. Afric. occid. 

 n. 54 (de qua mox infra) aceedit, sed perithecia pallida, minora 

 et verrucae cum thallo concolori-virentes, nee nigrae, el; sporae 

 aliae. — Corticola prope Apiahy in Brasilia: Puiggari n. i079. 



592, Heufleridiuvi Mull. Arg; gen, n. Thallus crustaceus, 

 gonidia depauperato - chroolepoidea ; apothecia pyrenocarpica, 

 circulatim aggregata, tota immersa at vertice colloso-attenuato 

 conniventfe in osculum commune abeuntia^ thalamii pseudopara- 

 pliyses tenellae et connexo-ramosae; sporae fuscae, parenehy- 

 maticae. — Structura thalli et apotheciorumutin ifew^emTrev., 

 sed sporae mox ^u8CSi.e ntin Anihracothecio et Pyrenula. — Species 

 hucusque notae tres: 



Heufleridium pentagastricum ; Hevfleria pentagastrica Miill. Arg. 

 Lich. Afric* occid. n. 54. — In Africa occidentali tropica. 



Heufleridium inierlatemi Astroihelium inierlaiens Nyl. Syn. Lich. 

 Nov. Caledon. p. 95. In Nova Caledonia. In specimine 

 meo pro quoque ostiolo etiam tantum duo perithecia 



invenio, 

 Heuflieridium prostratum; Astroihelium prostraium Stirt, Addit. 

 Lichenfl. New Zeland. p. 473. In Nova Zelandia (hanc 

 ipse non vidi, sed e descript. evidenter hujus loci est). 



593, Astroihelium obscurum Miill. Arg. Thallus hypophloeodes, 

 tenuis, cum epiderinide flavescenti-pallens v. olivaceo-pallens, 

 laevis, nitidulus, zona fusca limitatus ; stromata circ. 1 mm. lata 

 V. minora, solitaria v. 2— 3-natim connexa, hemisphaerica, basi 

 effusa, thallo obscuriora, fuscescentia v. tabacina, vulgo tetra- 

 carpica (3 — 5-carpica), vertice demum latiuscule nigro-uniporosa; 

 apothecia oblique convergentia, in cortice sessilia, nigra, oblique 

 sat longicolla; nucleus hyalinus; sporae in ascis octonae^ hya- 

 linae, 4-loculares, fusiformi-ellipsoideae, circ. 25 ^longae et 8ja 



latae. 



Primo intuitu Trypethelium phaeoiheiium Nyl, in Prodr. 



Nov. Granat. p. 579 simulat, sed stromata paullo pallidiora et 

 monostomatica. Juxta Astroihelium conicum Nyl. insorendum 

 est. — Corticola prope Apiahy in Brasilia; Puiggari n, 2255. 



