88 Sphferiaceae, Phseophragmiae, Heptameria. 



Ilab. in caulibus Chenopodii. Amaranthi ol L a p p 33, New 



York Amer. bor. 

 288. Lepiosphaeria echinella (Oooke) Thuem. Myc. Univ. n. 260. Sphcv- 3132 



ria echinella Cooke Handb. n. -2723. — Gregaria, subcuticularis ; 



peritheciis globosis, nigris, setulis rigidis, nigricantibus vestitis, 



prominulis, epidermidem perforantibus ; ostiolo obtuso : ascis cylin- 



draceis; sporidiis raonostichis, rectis curvulisve, triseptatis, con- 



strictis, pallide fuligineis, 16-17^6-8. 



llab. in caule Atriplicis etc. in Britannia. — An Pleosporuj 



ca Ivescen tis f orm a ? 



(Inserenda in Sect. 1, pag. 23 post num. 39). 



280, Leptosphasria circinans (Fuck.) Sacc, Byssoihecium circinans &&*, 

 Fuck, in Bot. Ztg. 1861, 35, cum icone (nec Amphisphceria zer- 

 bina De Not.). — Periiheciis subsparsis, erumpentibus, globoso- 

 conicis, nigris; ascis tereti-clavatis, paraphysatis ; sporidiis primo 

 distichis, demum submonostichis, oblongo-ovatis, perparum curvatis, 

 3septatis, medio constrictis, loculis duobus interioribus majoribus, 

 fusco-violaceis, duobus ultimis raulto minoribus, hyalinis, 32^12. 

 — St. conidicus sistit Lanosam nioalem Fr. — St. rhizoctonieus 

 sistit Rhizocioniam Medicaginis DC. — Status pycnidicus (Hen- 

 dersonia Medicaginis Sacc); peritheciis in Rhizoctonice vilio vel 

 in hujus viciniis cortice semiimmersis, globosis, atris, ruguiosis, 

 media magnitudine, subastoinis; stylosporis in sporophororum sim- 

 plicium apicibus, ut endosporis. 



Ilab. in radicibus caulibusque imis Medicagiais sativae 

 in Rhenogovia. 



HEPTAf^EHiA Rehm et Thuem. Myc Lusit. n. 292 (Martio 1878) 

 Verlotia E. Fabr. Sph. Vaucl. p. 108. (Oct. 1879) (Etym. hepia, 

 septem, meros, articulus, quia sporidia typice 7-locularia). — Pe- 

 rithecia subglobosa, erumpentia, solitaria vel aggregata, majuscu- 

 la, atra; asci paraphysati, octospori; sporidia fusiformia, 6-pluri- 

 sepiata ; locuio medio crassiori, ventricoso, colorato, caeteris hyaliuis. 



1. Heptameria obesa (Dur. et Mont.) Sacc. Leptosphccria obesa Dnr. :nS4 

 et Mont. Sacc. Fungi ital. t. 28 1, Sphcvria obesa Dur. et Mont. 

 Fl. Alg. 526, t. 27, tig. 3. — Erumpens, sparsa et gregaria; pe- 

 ritheciis globcso-depressis, demnm liberis, atris nitidis, intus cine- 

 reis, ostiolo papillseformi deciduo instructis, tandem umbilicatis late 



