320 Sphaerioidese, Phasospone, Hypocenia. 



nutis, 80-90 //. d., inembranaceis; contextu parenchymatico, atro- 

 fuligineo; sporulis globosis vel ellipticis, quandoque basi angulato- 

 acutatis, 6-7::;: 4-6, fuligineis. 



Hab. m stercore canino putrescente in hortis d la Recoleta in 

 Repub, Argentina. — A Sporo7^mia minima obsoleta toto coelo 

 diversa! 



HARKNESSIA Cooke Grev. IX. p. 85, Wint. Hedw. 1S83, p. 19. (Etym. 

 a cl. doct. H. W. Harkness, botanico Californite). — Perithecia 

 globoso-conica, apice poroso-lacerata; contextu pseudo-parenchy- 

 matico. Sporulse ellipticai vel subglobosce, continuse, opacse, deorsum 

 in pedicellum hjalinum articulatum productas, demum in grumu- 

 los atros erumpentes. — Habitus Melanconii, sed, teste Winter, 

 verum perithecium adest. 



1. Harknessia Eucalypti Cooke Grev. 9, p. 81 (ISSl) Wint. Hedw. 1802 

 1883, p. 21, — Peritheciis innatis v. superficialibus, globosis, fla- 

 vo-brunneis, epiphyllis, vel caulinis; orificio orbiculari, margine 

 elevato, hic illic dentato-lacerato ; sporulis late ellipticis, atro-fu- 

 scis, 20-30:^11-14, deorsum pedicellatis; pedicellis aequalibus li- 

 uearibus, hyalinis, dein fuscidulis, 40-45 a. longis. 



Hab. in foliis et ramulis Eucalypti Globuli in California 

 Americse borealis. 



2. Harknessia uromycoides Speg. Arg. IV. n. 309, Melanconium uro- i803 

 mijcoides Speg. F. Argent. Pug. I. n. 40 (1880) Harknessia Molle- 

 onana Wint. Hedw. 1883, p. 20, Harknessia longipes Harkn. F. 

 Calif. p. 13 (1884). — Peritheciis gregariis erumpentibus, semi- 

 membranaceis; orificio orbiculari, margine deriticulato elevato; spo- 

 rulis ellipsoideo-oblongis, saspe curvis, apiculatis, 19-27 ^ 10-12, 

 atro-olivaceis, 2-nucleatis, apice hyalino nitido; basidiis persisten- 

 tibus, Hexuosis, hyalinis, angustis, sporula 4-6-pIo longioribus, 

 nempe usque 140 a. longis. 



Hab. in ramis eraortuis foliisque Eucalypti odorataj, Pied- 

 mont Californiae et in Argentina. — Species basidiis prselongis 

 mox distinguenda. 



HYPOCENIA B. et C. North Am. Fungi n. 423'''^ (Etyra. hypo sub et 

 cenos vacuus, ob cellulam basilarem in perithecio). — Perithecia 

 crassa obtusissima, cellulam unicam semiorbicularem includentia. 

 Sporuko fusoideae continuae endochromate utrinque retracto, pal- 

 lide brunneai. — Hypocenia herbarum C. et H. ad Siagonospo- 

 ram spectare videtur. 



