Necti-ioidenj, Patellinerii, Cyphina. 623 



1. Patellina italichroma ^^peg. Fung. Arg. Pug. III. n. 164. — Pe- 3328 

 ritheciis orbiculari-applanatis, so3pe confiuendo difforniibus, carno- 

 so-ceracejs, hypotliecio crassiusculo, obscure viridi, margine can- 

 dido, contextu parenchymatico, olivascente; epithecio amcBne auran- 

 tiaco vel roseo-carneo ; sporulis ellipticis vel ovoideis, biguttulatis, 

 continuis, hyalinis, 3-4^ 1,5, in basidiis filiforrnibus praelongis, 80- 

 120 i; 1, acrogenis. 



Ifab. in palo vetusto subputrido Meliaj Azedarach prope 

 ol Retiro, Buenos Aires Argentinui. — Species perpulchra! Jove 

 pluvio, epitliecium detiuit ac apothecium album cavum manet. 



CYPHINA Sacc. (^Etym. cyplioa vas concavum), E.ccipida Peck e. p. 

 — Perithecia excipuliformia, minuta, laiticoloria (flava vel auran- 

 tiaca) pilis mollibus albidis vestita. Sporulse oblong.x', continuae, 

 h\'alin;ie. — cc Forte VolaielUv analoga». 



1. Cyphina lanuginosa (Peckj Sacc. Excipula. Idnuginosn Peck Rep. 3329 

 on the St. iMiis. N. York, cuiu icone. — Periiheciis excipulitbr- 

 mibus minutis, flavidis vel aurantiacis, copio.sis, plerumqne pilis 

 longis, mollibus, sordide albis; sporulis oblongis, liyalinis, 7-8,5 

 //. longis. 



I[ab. iri caule Meliloti, Bethlehem Amer. bor. — Peritheciis 

 la}te coloratis et pilis pallidis ab Excipuli^ mox dignoscitur. 



