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minimis, villosis, setis circ. 90 u. longis; ascis cylindraceo-clavatis ; 

 sporidiis fusiformibus, nucleatis, demura 5-septatis, hyalinis 30 ^ 5. 



Hab. in ligno quercirio, Darien, Georgia, Am. bor. (Ravenfil). 

 14. Acanfhostigma byssophHum (Rehm) Saco. Trichosphceria bysso* 3G15 

 phila Rehm, Beitr. Ascom. in Redw. 1882, p. 121. — Peritheciis 

 minutissimis, solitariis, oculo nudo vix perspicuis, afcris, globosis, 

 parenchymatice contextis, apice setis rigidis, brevibus, sirnplicibus, 

 acutis, septatis, fuscis c. 3,5 u. cr, obsessis, in hyphis fuscis Ta- 

 pesice insidentibus; ascis ellipsoideis, apice incrassaiis, 8-sporis, 

 (30 v 9; sporidiis cylindraceis, utrinque acutatis, subcurvatis, 6-cel- 

 iularibus, hyalinis, 3-stichis, 24 s 4, paraphysibus ramosis. 



Hfxb. in thallo Tapesife prunicolse ad Alnum viridem 

 prope Rietziern alp. Algoviae bavaricse (Britzelmayr). 



HERP0TBIGH1A Fuck. Symb. Myc. p. Hti (Etym. ab herpo, repo et 

 Irichos (a ihrix) pilus). — Perithecia carbonacea, globosa, undique 

 pilis crispulis et repentibus, longissimis obsita, vertice applanata, 

 subglabra plerumque discoloria ostiolo mitmtissimo, papillato. Asci 

 oblongi, stipitati, 8-spori, typice paraphysati. Sporidia subdisticha, 

 ovato-oblouga, y. fusoidea 1- dein pluriseptata, interdum utriuque 

 papillato -apiculata, hyalina. 



i. Herpotrichia Schsedermayeriana Fuck. Symb. Myc. App. II, p. 27, 3616 

 Sacc. F. it. t; 143. — Peritlieciis inferiori parte piiis raraosis, sep- 

 tatis, strictis, rigidis, -repentibus, loogis, fuscis obsitis et quasi su- 

 biculo insidentibus, demum totis liberis, dense gregariis, ovatis vel 

 obtuso -conicis, 1 mill. crass., iy a , mill. altis., superiori patte sub* 

 glabris, fuscis, vertice circum ostiolum perforatum paliide sordidis 

 rubellisve mox depressis; ascis clavatis, longe. stipitatis, 8 sporis,' 

 120 s 16; sporidiis distichis, fusiformibus parum curvatis, 1-3-sep- 

 tatrs, ad septum intermedium valde constrictis, loculis uniguttula- 

 tis, utrinque appendiculis minutis, globosis, mox evanescentibus, 

 totis rnaturis ilavis, 32 =; 8; paraphysibus filiformibusv 



Ifab. in trunculis ramisque Sambuci nigrae putresbeptibus 

 pr. Kirchdorf in Austria sup. (Schiedermayer) et in sylva Montello 

 Ital. bor. — In speciminibus italicis, asci adsuni clavati, paraphy- 

 sati, 110-120 j 12-14, octospori; sporidia disticha v. oblique mo- 

 nosticha, fusoi<Sea, 1-3-septata, 35-38 ■■a 5-6, 4-guttulattt meilea. 



2. Herpotrichia rhenana Fuck. Symb. Myc. p. 146, t. III, f. 7. — ggn 

 Peritheciis sparsis gregariisve, subliberis, majusculis, globosis, ru- 

 gulosis, pilis fuscis, decumbentibus repentibusque, longissimis, den 



