Sphaeriacese, Phseophragmirt:. Massaria. 9 



naceis, nigris, ostiolo breve conoideo, parum emergeute. quandoque 

 irregulariter dehiscente; ascis cylindricis, 170 ^ 12, brevissime stipi- 

 tatis, apice, lumine leniter coarctato, rotundatis. paraphysatis, octo- 

 sporis; sporidiis monostichis fusoideis, rectis curvulisve, utrinque 

 acutiusculis, 35-9. constricto-3-septatis, 4-guttulatis, olivaceo- 

 fuligineis, senio longitudinaliter striatulis, strato mucoso, hyalino 

 crasso obvolutis. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis emortuis Alni viridis in montanis 

 Bellunensibus, Ital. bor. 



25. Massaria marginata Fuck. Symb. myc. App. II. p. 28, fig. 6. — Pe- 2876 

 ritheciis sub epidermide pustulatim turgida uidulantibus, plerumque 

 sparsis, raro subconflueniious, media magnitudine, subgbbosis, ni- 

 gris, glabris, ostiolis minutissimis, papillatis, atris, epidermide lissa 

 emersis; ascis cylindraceis, subsessilibus, octosporis, 162 s 12 (parte 

 sporif.); sporidiis oblique monostichis, oblongis, rectis seu parum 

 curvatis, utrinque obtusis, 3septatis, ad septa parum constrictis, 

 fuscis, zona hyalina, tenuissima circumdatis, 24-8-10; paraphy- 

 sibus filiformibus, numerosis. — Status conidicus sistit Sericlium 

 marginahim (Fr. ) Nees. 



Ilab. in ramis emortuis Rosre caninse in Jura Helvetiaa 

 (Morthier), Berberidis vulgaris in Italia super. (Saccardo). 



26. jftassaria Fuckelii Nits. in Fuck. Symb. rayc. p. 155, t. VI, fig. 1. 2^77 

 Peritheciis cortice nidulantibus, globosis, nigris; ascis cylindraceis, 

 oblique stipitatis, 8sporis, 130^8; sporidiis oblique monostichis, 

 oblongo-subciavatis, 3septatis, fuscis, circulo gelatinoso, hyalino 

 circumdatis, IG-8. 



Hab. in ramis Tilise europaete, rarius, in Germania. 



27. Massaria vomitoria B. et C. — Peritheciis, ostiolo excepto, abdi- 2*7$ 

 tis; ascis octosporis clavatis 210 =;36; sporidiis oblongis obtusiuseu- 



lis magnis, obliquis, 3-septatis, ad septa subconstrictis, cellulis in- 

 termediis quani extimis paulo angustioribus, 66-75 s 8, initio hya- 

 linis bilocujaribos, dein fuligineis. 



IJab. in ramis Aceris, Fraxini et Robinise in Carolina, 

 Virginia, New York, New England (Amer. bor.) frequens. 



28. Hdassaria hirta (Fr.) Fuck. Symb. myc. p. 154, tab. III, fig. 30, ?s?y 

 Sphccria hirla Fr. — Pusilla, peritheciis tectis epidermide adnatis 

 depressis irregularibus, subtiliter villosis, nigricantibus, ostiolo erum- 

 pente; ascis cylindraceis, stipitatis, Ssporis, 134 ss8; sporidiis oblique 

 monostichis, lanceolato-oblongis, utrinque attenuatis, l-3septatis, ad 

 sepla vix constrictis. pallide flavis, 16-24 s 6-8. — Spermogoniuin 



