- 13G - 



cco-cluMiluti, antice sublrimcato-rotundati crassiu- 

 scule tunicati, postice brevitcr crassetjue attcnuato- 

 pcdicellati (iO X 3-3,5 -^), octospori, parapli}sibus 

 lilitorinibus obvallali ; iodi opc nulla ; sporidia recte 

 disticha, obovata v. elongato-clliptica superne obtuse 

 rotuudata inferne acutiuscula (5-7 X 1-1,5 ;j.) rccta v. 

 inaequilateralia, h}aliiia, continua. 

 Ilab. lu ramis fagincis decorticatis ad tuguria incolaruni 

 in Gertrude Cove, Jun. 1882. 



342. NlPTEUA ANTARCTICA SpCg. (o. Sp.) 



Dlag. Cupulae sparsae \. hinc indc laxe gregariac, |)rinio 

 cpidcrniide tectae, dein, ea scccdente, denudato-su- 

 pcrlicialcs, heinisphacrico-cupulatae (200-250 ;;,) atrae 

 glabrac, contc.vtu marginc prosencliymatico (an fimbria- 

 tulo?) caeterum parenchymatico olivacco-fusco dona- 

 tae ; asci cylindracei v. subfusoidci, antice truncato- 

 rotundati crassiuscule tuuicati minutissime bifoveolati, 

 postice brevissime crassequc attennato-pedicellati (65- 

 80 X 5 [j.), octospori, paraphysibus paucis guttulatis 

 obvallati ; iodi ope obturaculus ascorum intense coeru- 

 lescit ; sporidia rectc disticha, cylindracco-fusoidea, 

 utrinquc obtusiuscula (17-18 X 1,5-2 [j.), medio I-sep- 

 tata non constricta, hyalina. 



Ilab. Ad cnlmos emortuos Rosthhovlae grandiflorae m 

 pratis uliginosis in Sfafen isLind^ Febr. 1882. 



Obs. Specics vere pusiila ascomatibus quandoquc matrice 

 fere immcrsis nonnihil ad genus Fabrca Sacc. vergens. 



343. BKLOjviniUM amoenum Speg. (n. sj).) 



Diaf/. Cupulae supcrlicialcs s])arsae v. hinc indc 2-3-ag- 

 grcgatae sessiles, udae globulosac, disco tumido-hemi- 

 sphacrico (250-400 •;. diam.) albo-ccraceo donatac, siccae 

 contracto-concavae globosae, extus flavescentes vil- 

 losulac, i)ilis longiusculis cylindraccis apice obtusis 



