462 Hypocreaceae, Phaeosporre, Melanospora. 



badiis, demurn nigrescentibus, rostro stricto vel flexuoso, sursuni 

 attenuato, concolore, peritheciis multoties longiore, glabris, 0,4 rnill. 

 lat. ; ascis pedicellatis, crassiuscule clavatis, 35-40- 12-14 octospo- 

 ris (et tetrasporis) ; sporidiis superne tristichis, ellipsoideis, utrin- 

 que attenuatis, simplicibus, e hyalino subfuscis, 11-12^6. — Sper- 

 mogonia (Sph. pilifera * capillata Fr. teste Karst.) gregaria, emer- 

 genti-nuda, subsphasroidea vel ovoidea, atra, glabra, minima, ro- 

 stro capillari, longissimo, curvato; spermatiis ellipsoideis hyali- 

 nis, 8 e 4. 



Hab. in hymenio Polypori adusti, P. igniarii etc. in Sue- 

 cia, Gennania, Fennia et Amer. bor. (ubi sporidia, teste Peck, 12- 

 13 «7,5). — Sec. De Not. asci 4-spori; sec. Karst. 8-spori. Quan- 

 doque adest subiculum mucedineum, an tamen proprium? 



4. Melanospora Helyellae (Cooke) Sacc. Ceratostoma Helrelke Cooke 4597 

 Grevill. I, 175. — Peritheciis molHbus, raembranaceis, ovatis, le- 

 vibus, pallide brunneis. iuitio semiimmersis; ostiolo diametrum pe- 

 rithecii subsequante, apice penicillato; ascis clavatis, fasciculatis 

 mox difflucntibus ; sporidiis limoniiformibus, brunneis, levibus, 22- 



25 b 14-16. 



Hab. in hymenio Pezizze hem isphaericae in Anglia. 



5. Melanospora arachnophila Fuck. Symb. myc. pig. 127. — Peri- 4598 

 iheciis gregariis, media magnitudine, ventricoso-conicis, glaberri- 

 mis, pallide fuscis, in rostrum breve acutum attenuatis, basi vil- 



lo candido insidentibus ; ascis cylindraceis octosporis ; sporidiis mo- 

 nostichis, globosis uniguttulatis, hyalinis (seruper?). 



Hab. in Araneis ernortuis pr. Eberbach Germaniae. 



6. Melanospora caprina (Fr.) Sacc. Sphceria caprina Fr. in Fl. dan. 4599 

 t. 1859, f. 2. Ceratosioma caprinum Fr., Cooke Hudb. 925, fig. 

 400. — Peritheciis superiicialibus, globosis, villosis, albis, ostiolo 

 subulato, nigricante; ascis clavatis, sporidiis, ellipsoideis, continuis, 

 subdistichis, tandem ad apicem ostioii in massam globosam eru- 

 ctatis. 



Hab. in quisquiliis et in ligno putrido in Anglia et Dania. 



7. Melanospora arenaria Mont., in Anu. Scienc. nat. 1856, XXV. — 4,500 

 Peritheciis gregariis globoso-depressis, V, mill. diam. villo longo 

 fuligineo mtricato vestitis, subiculo lauuginoso denso atro e fibril- 



lis ramosis noduloso-geniculatis composito immersis, ostiolo lou- 

 gissimo 500 s 80 concolori, apice penicillato-fibroso; ascis clava- 

 tis deliquescentibus octosporis; sporidiis ventricosis, limoniiformi- 

 bus, 20=; 10, 1-guttatis, brunneis. 



