560 Hypocreaeess, Dictyosporse, Megalonectria. 



tis parceque constrictis, densissime ac cribrose guttulatis, utrinque 

 obtusiusculis, 30-35- 12-15, hyalinis, dein horizontaliter ac 1-ver- 

 ticaliter septatis, fumosis. 



Hab. ad ramos dejectos putresceutes Celtidis Talae in se- 

 pibus, a las Conchas, Argentina. —  Species, primo intuitu, Nec- 

 iriam cinnabarinam statim in raenlem revocans; sporidia matu- 

 ra ac muriformia difficile iavenienda, et tunc facile cum genere 

 Nectria comrautanda ! 



4. Pleonectria austro-americana Speg. Pug. II, p. 27. — Peritheciis 4993 

 globosis, l / 4 - l / 5 mill. diam., in c^espitulos suborbiculares v. diffor- 

 mes, erumpenti-exertos, 1-5 miil. cr. dense coogestis, fulvo-oliva- 

 ceis, senio fuscescentibus, ostiolo prominulo papillato; ascis cylin- 

 draceis v. cylindraceo-clavatis, sursura obtuse rotundatis, deorsum 

 breve stipitatis, aparaphysatis, octosporis, 65-75 » 10-15; sporidiis 

 subdistichis v. oblique monostichis, ellipticis, hyalinis, 3-5-septa- 



tis, septisque 3-5 verticalibus divisis, ad septa vix constrictis, 12- 

 16 »7-8, hyalinis. 



Hab. in cortice vetusto Acacias cujusdam, Parque de Paler- 

 mo Argentinae. 



5, Pieonectna Sichenicola (Crouan) Sacc. Mich. I, 325. Nectria li- 4994 

 chenicola Crouen Finist. 256. — Peritheciis pyriformibus, flavo- 

 aureis, ! / 5 raill. cr., tomentellis, bysso alba glomerulosa cinctis, 

 ostiolo punctiformi, obscuriore; ascis oblongis dehiscentibus; spo- 

 ridiis subfusoideis, utrinque acute attenuatis, merenchymaticis (mu- 

 riformibus). 



Ilab. m thallo lichenum in trunco fagineo Finistere Galliae. 



MEGALONECTRIA Speg. F. Arg. Pug. IV, n, 211. (Etym. megas, 



magnus et Neclria). — Perithecia globosa, molJiuscula, laeticola- 

 ria. pillulata, in consortio v. basi fuugilli conidiophori (Stilbi 

 spec.) oriunda. Asci octospori. Sporidia ovato-oMonga, murali- 

 septata, hyalina. — A genere Pleonectria, cui affinis, recedit ut 

 Sphcerostilbe Tui. a Nectria Fr. 

 1. Megafonectria pseudotrichia (Schw.) Speg. F. Arg. Pus. IV, u. 4995 

 211, Sphmrostilbe pseudotrichia (Schwein.) B. et 13r. F. Ceyl. n. 

 1004. Nectria pseudoirichia (Schw.) B. et Curtis Ex. Fungi Schw. 

 pag. 289, tab. 25, f. 9. — Peritheciis globosis, demum collapsis, 

 apotheciiformibus, rubri.s v. lateritiis, glabris; sporidiia cellulosis, 

 25-35 »9-11. 



Hab. in corticibus in Ceylon, Brasilia, Canada. — Sec. Bork. 





