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phaerico-depressa, atra, clausa, deininn rimose dehiscentia, 

 excipulo corneo, membranaceo, tenui. Hymenium, hypothe- 

 cio e parenchymate phis minus crasso, vulgo albo, imposi- 

 tum, parietem excipuli imum vestiens, placentitorme. 



XLVIII. rHACIDlUM Fn. Obs. I, p. IGl (pr. p. mi- 

 nima). De N. Disc. p. 16. 



Apothecia erumpentia, liberata, sessilia, rotundata vel 

 subhemisphaerica, clausa, matura in lacinias plures a centro 

 versus ambitum dehiscentia, atra, hypothecio teuuiore. Asci 

 clavati, mediocres. Sporae 8:nae, distichae, ellipsoideae vel 

 oblongato-subreniformes, simplices ac eguttuhitae. Paraphy- 

 ses graciles, parum notabiles. 



XLIX. COCCOMYCES De N. Dub. Monogr. Hyst. p. 

 4 (saltem pr. p.) 



Apothecia innato-emergentia *), hemisphaerico-depressa, 

 superne cum epidermide vel cuticula matricis uigrefacta **) 

 connata, clausa, tandem a centro versus ambitura in lacinias 

 plures, more Phacidiacearum a hymenio discretas, dehiscen- 

 tia, hypothecio tenuiore, albo. Asci cyliudraceo-clavati, apice 

 acutati. Sporae 8:nae, conglobatae, filiformes, simplices ac 

 guttulatae vel spurie septatae, incolores, longissimae. Para- 

 physes filiformes, simplices, conglutinatae. — Spermogonia 

 conceptaculiformia, clausa, simpUcia, tandem anguste dehi- 



*) In Cocc. coronato *laciniato demum superficialia, obconica et 

 stipitata. 



**) nVigeant Phacidia in foliis aut corticibus, aridas matricis 

 partes, qvas inhabitant, parencbymate fungino fuso-nigro, ex cellulis 

 minimis reticulato-sociatis, infarciunt, simul atqve easdem exesas in se 

 ipsa phis minus convertunt; inde fit ut excipuhim atrum qvo foecunda 

 eorum viscera involvuntnr pro ahcno tegmine inimcrito haberctur" : 

 TUL. SeL Fnng. Carp. III, p. 132. 



