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tiini; perithecia iii playulis sparsa iii vivo globosa (150- 

 200 y drn.) in sicco depressa p;lal)ra subverruculosa atra 

 membranacea, contextu ^M'0sse celluloso (cellulis 10/^ dm.) 

 parenchyniatico olivaceo-tuliijjineo donata; asci elliptici 

 (60 X 21 y-) subpersistentes aparaphysati 2-spori ; sporidia 

 e fronte cylindraceo-ellipsoidea e latere cylindraceo-com- 

 pressa (38-40 h- Ig. X 15-16 /^ dm. ant. X 12 /v. dm. It.), 

 utrinque obtuse rotundata, 4-septata, non v. parce con- 

 strictula fuliginea. Species M. brasiliensi Speg. valde affi- 

 nis sed tamen ut videtur satis distincta. 



238. Meliola plebeja Speg. (n. sp.) 



Diag. Subiculum pruinuloso-maculare glabrum, hyphopodiis 

 alternis quandoque ampulluhformibus quandoque globo- 

 so-ovatis angulosis pedicellatis ornatum ; perithecia glo- 

 bosa verrucosa atra glabra ; sporidia cylindracea, recta v. 

 subcurvula 4-septata fuliginea. 



Hab. Ad folia viva Solanaceae? cujusdam in dumetis prope 

 Apiahy, Maj. 1888 (sub n. 2759). 



Obs. Subiculum piagulas hypophyllas irregulares majuscu- 

 las (2-10'" dm.) pruinuloso-fibrillosas atras subindeter- 

 minatas arcte matrici adnatas efficiens, ex hyphis tortuo- 

 sis dense intertextis irregulariter ramosis (10 /j- crs.) opace 

 fuligineis, setulis destitutis, hyphopodiis alternis quan- 

 doque (rarius) ampulluUformibus sessilibus, quandoque 

 anguloso-v. sublobato-globosis, 1-cellulari-pedicellatis 

 (20 X 15 /*), 1-guttulatis densiuscule ornatis compositum; 

 perithecia in plagulis hinc inde constipata v. sparsa in 

 vivosubglobosa (150-180 /^- dm.), in sicco rugulosa v. sub- 

 cupulato-depressa, glabraverruculosamembranacea, con- 

 textu grosse parenchymatico-celluloso olivaceo donata; 

 asci elliptici, mox diffluentes, 2-6-spori aparaphy- 

 sati; sporidia cylindracea (42-46 X 14-16 /^), utrin- 

 que obtuse rotundata, loculis omnibus aequalibus, e 

 fronte recta e latere inaequilaterali-subcurvula, 4-sep- 



