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setiilas subiculi nidulantia fere abscondita, hinc inde 

 sparsa v. gregaria, globulosa minuta (100-120,'^dm.) asto- 

 ma e rubro lateritia glabra laevia, crassiuscule membra- 

 nácea, contextu parenchymatico rufo-fulvo parum per- 

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

 60 //) breviter crasseque stipitati, túnica ubique, sed ápice 

 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 m), medio 1-septata non 

 V. parce constricta, loculis subaequilongis, supero saepius 

 grosse 1-guttulato, rufo-fuliginea. Species elegantissima 

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

 tica, facillime novi generis inter Nectriaceas et Perisporia- 

 ceas medii typum sistens. 



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



Diag. Amphigenum ; liypothallus tenuissimus pelliculosus 

 eífusus non v. vix perspicuus ; perithecia ovata pruinulosa 

 V. glabra astoma laxe gregaria ; asci clavati aparaphysati ; 

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

 mosa. 



Hab. Ad folia coriácea viva plantae ignotae prope Apiahij, 

 Aest. 1888 (sub n. 2384). 



Obs. Hypotliallus amphigenus maculas parum perspicuas pal- 

 lide oliváceas orbiculares (2-5"' It.) sparsas v. confluentes 

 saepeque totum fere folium obtegentes efíiciens, tenuis- 

 sime pelliculosus arete matrici adnatus, ex hyphis graci- 

 libus (5-6 /-icrs.) dense intertextis ac pseudoseptatis oppo- 

 sito-ramosis hyphopodiis destitutis pallide olivaceis eíFor- 

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

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

 fusco-olivacea coriacella, contextu indistincto olivascen- 

 te ; asci clavulati antice rotundati postice cuneato-atte- 

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



