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setiilas subiculi nidulantia fere abscondita, liinc inde 

 sparsa v. gregaria, globulosa minuta (100-I20,^dm.) asto- 

 ma e rubro lateritia glabra laevia, crassiuscule membra- 

 nacea, contextu parenchymatico rufo-fulvo parum per- 

 spicuo donata ; asci obovati v. pyriformes (80-90 X 50- 

 60 //.) breviter crasseque stipitati, tunica ubique, sed apice 

 praecipue, crassiuscula primo hyalina dein saepius ru- 

 fescente vestiti, paraphysibus diffluentibus e chlorino fu- 

 scescentibus obvallati, octospori; sporidia conglobata 

 elliptica V. obovata (35-40 X 20 y), medio l-septata non 

 V. parce constricta, loculis subaequilongis, supero saepius 

 grosse 1-guttulato, rufo-fuliginea. Species elegantissima 

 Parodiellae? melioloidi (B. et C.) Wint. affinis, nisi iden- 

 tica, facillime novi generis inter Nectriaceas et Perisporia- 

 ceas medii typum sistens. 



224. ASTERIDIUM CLAVISPORUM SpCg. (U. Sp.) 



Diag. Amphigenum ; hypothallus tenuissimus pelliculosus 

 etfusus non v. vix perspicuus ; perithecia ovata pruinulosa 

 V. glabra astoma laxe gregaria; asci clavati aparaphysati ; 

 sporidia cylindraceo-clavata, 3-5-septata, e chlorino fu- 

 mosa. 



Hab. Ad folia coriacea viva plantae ignotae prope Apiahy, 

 Aest. 1888 (sub n. 2384). 



Obs. Hypothalhis amphigenus maculas parum perspicuas pal- 

 lide olivaceas orbiculares (2-5"' It.) sparsas v. confkientes 

 saepeque totum fere folium obtegentes efficiens, teuuis- 

 sime pelliculosus arcte matrici adnatus, ex hyphis graci- 

 libus (5-6y-crs.) dense intertextis ac pseudoseptatis oppo- 

 sito-ramosis hyphopodiis destitutis pallide olivaceis effor- 

 matum ; perithecia in maculis laxe 5-40-gregaria ovata v. 

 subglobosa (150-180 /^- dm.) astoma glabra v. pruinulosa 

 fusco-olivacea coriacella, contextu indistincto olivascen- 

 te ; asci clavulati antice rotundati postice cuneato-atte- 

 nuati (80 X 20 y) breviter pedicellati aparaphysati octo- 



