Sphieriacene, Phaeophragraise, Leptosphaeria. 75 



surn a';rupte ac; nodose coarctato-stipitatis, 75-80^ 10, aparaphysa- 

 tis, 4 pctospQris ; sporidiis recte distichis, cj iindraceis, ntrmque ob- 

 tusissirne rotundatis, 18-20^4,5-5, 5-septatis vix eonstricti*, lo- 

 culo tertio centrali infero tumidiore, flavo-virentibus. 



llab. in foliis putrescentibus Yucca? gloriosaB, Bariado de 

 San Jose de Flores, Argent. Amer. Austr. — Speeies sporidiis prae- 

 distinctis! Cum L. Castagnei (Dur. Mont.) Sacc. facie sporidiorum 

 comparanda, valde tamen recedens. 



§§§ Sporidia 6-16-septata. 



232. Leptosphama culmifraga (Fr.) Ces. ct De Not Schem. Sfer. p. stss 

 01. Sacc. Fungi ital. t. 496. Sphwia culmifraya Fr. Syst. Myc 



II, pag. 510. — Peritheciis sparsis, subinde in series congestis, 

 primitus tectis, demum per epidermidem fissarn erumpentibus. sub- 

 compressis, elhpsoideis. rarius orbicularibus, tuncque subsphaeroi  

 deis, ostiolo brevi, conoideo, nudo, ut plurimum basi filamentis pau- 

 cis, fuligineis obtusis, atris, 300-400 i 150-200 aut 250 u.. diam. ; 

 ascis clavatis, 80-100 ^ 12-14, octosporis; sporidiis superne di- 

 tristichis, lusoideo-elongatis, vulgo curvulis, 7-9-septatis, loculo 

 tertio vix vel leviter tumido, ad septa demum leviter constrictis, 

 tiavis, 35-46 ^ 5-7 ; paraphysibus filiformis. — St. conidicus : 6?//- 

 mnosporium rhizophilum Pr. (teste Fuck.). 



Hab. in culmis graminum in Fennia, Lapponia, Suecia, Bri- 

 tannia, Germania, Gallia, Belgio, Italia, Amer. bor. — Var. *pro- 

 ptrtqua Sacc. Mlch, II, 319; peritheciis superiicialibus, globoso-co- 

 noideis, vage sparsis; ascts 120 ~ 17 tereiiuseulis ; sporidiis fusoi- 

 deis, curvulis, 35-45 s 7, 7-8 septatis, loculo quarto protuberante, 

 olivaceo-melleis. In foliis culmisque Pote aquaticae, Quevilly in 

 Gallia (Letexpre). — *!inearis Sacc. i. c. ; peritheciis subinnatis, se- 

 riatis; ascis teretiusculis, 85-12; sporidiis similibus sed 20-30=; 

 5-5V 2 , olivaceis. In culmis Brachypodii, Paris Gallise (Le- 

 veille). 



233. Lepiosphaeria amphibola Sacc Fungi Ven. Ser. II, 322, F. it. 3127 

 t. 278. LepL culmifraga Sacc. Mycoth. Ven. n. 77, (in Sorgho) 

 non Auct. — Peritheciis plerurnque parallele dense seriatis, in- 

 nato-erumpentibus, sphasroideis, '/ 4 mill. diam., atris et quandoque 

 pseudostrornate nigricante exceptis, hyphis brevissiiais fuligineis 

 basi cinctis, nullisve: ostiolis conodeis parum exertis ; ascis eiava- 

 to-cyliwlraceis, 70- 80=.- 12-15, brovo nodulovo -slipitatis, paraphy- 



