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extiis intusqve cortici concolor, nunc contra, peridermio mox 

 secesso, liberum et ut superticies corticis ipsa ex fusco nigri- 

 cans, discretura vel rarius confluens. Perithecia numerosa, 

 (20—30) in qvovis stromate, dense conferta, subovoidea, pe- 

 rexigua, collis breviusculis ostiolisqve in discum planum col- 

 lectis, apice rotundatis vel truncatis, dein pertusis, aterrimis, 

 abbreviatis, raro rostellatis, minutissimis. Asci cylindracec- 

 clavati, longit. 80—32 mmm., crassit. 5 — 6 mmm. Sporae 

 conglobatae, longit. 6—9 mmm., crassit. 1,5 mmm. — Sper- 

 mogonia stromatibus perithecigeris simillima, papillis 1 , raro 

 2—3 instructa, intus griseo-viridula, multilocularia, locellis 

 radiatim dispositis. Spermatia elongata, subrecta, hyalina, 

 longit. 4 mmm., crassit. 1 mmm., tandem in cirrhos flavidos 

 propulsa. 



Syn. Sphaeria Pini Alb. et Schw. Consp. Fung. nisk. p. 20, 

 t. VIII, f. 1. Fr. Syst. niyc. II, p, 397. Valsa pini ^in&cm.. Vyr. 

 gerui. p. 183. Sphaeria leiicophaeata Rebent. Neom. p. 329 (forma 

 stromatibus superne liberis) sec. Nitschk. 



Form. spermog. Ci/tispora Pini Desm. Ann. d. sc. nat. 1843, 

 t. XIX, p. 362. 



Exsicc. Fr. Scler. Svec. 7. Karst. Fung. Fenn. 477. 



Form. spermog. Desm. Cr. Fr. 1500. 



Hab. In cortice Pini sijlvestris in Fennia saltem meri- 

 dionali sat freqveus. 



Huc forte pertinet qvoqve V. decumbens (Schmidt) Nitschk. 

 Pyr. germ. p. 198 (Sphaeria deciimbens Schmidt. Fr. Syst. myc. II, 

 p. 408). — Stromata primo pulvere laete flavido tecta. 



7. V. cenisia De N. Sfer. ital. p. 39, t. XLIV. 



Stroma conico-truncatum vel depresse convexum, parum 

 prominens, nunc peridermio arcte adhaerente tectum et extus 

 intusqve cortici concolor, nunc contra, peridermio secesso, 



