Sphseriacea?, Phasophragmia?, Pseudovalsa. 137 



nio gerrainando utrinquo filamentifera. Perithecia, non decumbunt, 

 sed leviter convergunt, ostiolis apice perforatis. 



7. PseudovaSsa Xanthoxyli (Peck) Sacc, Valsa Xanthoooy.lt Peck 31 33dg 

 Rep. on the St. Mus. N. Y. — Pustulis leniter prominulis, erum- 

 pentibus, disculo flavido- v. fnsco-furfuraceo, ostiolis punctulato; 

 peritheciis 2-15, rarius singulis, fragilibus, pallidis, fusco-tomen- 

 tellis, tomento subinde in stroma spurium subagglutinato ; ostio- 



lis distinctis, brevibus, obtusis. nigris, initio ilavido-pruinatis; ascis 

 subcylindricis ; sporidiis inordinatis v. biseriatis, oblongis, obtusis, 

 rectis v. curvulis, 20-25 ~ 7,5, 3-5-septatis, subinde septulo uno 

 longitudinali accedente, initio hyalinis dein flavicantibus. 



Hab. in ramis emortuis Xanthoxyli araericani, West 

 Trov Amer. bor. (Peck). 



8. Pseudovalsa samoucina (Peck) Sacc, Valsa sambucina Peck, Rep. 3356 

 on the St. Mus. N. Y. — Pustulis erumpentibus, subinde seriatis; 

 ostiolis prominulis, levibus v. radiatim suicatis, sparsis, v. aggre- 

 gatis; ascis linearibus, octosporis; sporidiis monostichis, oblongis, 

 coloratis, triseptatis, 12-15 (j.. longis. 



Hab. in ramis emortuis Sambuci, Carskill Mountains Amer. 

 bor. — Sporidia initio pallida. Stroraata in ramis majora et laxio- 

 ra, quara in truncis. 



9. Pseudovaisa agiffiostoma (B. et Br.) Sacc. Valsa aglccostoma B. 335? 

 et Br. Brit. Fungi n. 862. t. 10, f. \1 . — Peritho ii ovoideis, 4-6 

 valsoideo-aggregatis ; ostiolis congestis, cylindraceis, nitidis; ascis 

 fusoideo-clavatis, breve stipitatis, octosporis; sporidiis subdistichis, 

 oblongis, utrinque rotuudatis, 3-4-sept,atis, ad septa constrictis, 

 20-25 -J: longis (coloratis %). 



Hab. m ramis Ulmi, Leicestershire Britannise. Habitus Cry- 

 plosporellce hypodermii v. 



10. Pseudovalsa tubulosa (B. et C.) Sacc, Valsa tubulosa Cooke Val- 3358 



sei of Un. St. 123. — Stromatibus valseis ; ascis ; spo- 



ridiis fusoideis, utrinque obtusis, triseptatis. fuligineis, 30 - 10. 



Hab. in ramis Alni, Carolina Amer. bor. (Curtis). — Dia- 

 gnosim quain Cookeus citat apud Grevilleam invenire non contigit. 

 Sporidia secundum exemplar Curtisii descripsit Cookei 



II. Hapalocystis Fuck. emend. 

 Sporidia utrinque hyalino-appendiculata. 



11. Pseudovalsa Berkeleyi (Tul.) Sacc, Melanconis Berkeleyi Tul. , 

 Select. Fung. Carp. 11, p. 130, Fuck. Synib. \S$, tab. XI, 6g. I 



