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MELAXCONIEI. 



Order XIII. MELANCONIEI. 



Perithecmm obsolete or altogether wanting. 



Spores oozing out in a black mass. 



Simple . Melanconium. 



Endochrome divided Sfegonosponum. 



Septate Stilhosjoora. 



Septate and stellate AsterosjoorivMU 



Spores pedunculate. 



Septate, not crested ...... Coryneum. 



Septate, crested ....... Pestalozzia. 



Simple, collected in tufts ..... Cheiros])ora. 



Spores oozing out in tendrils. 

 Coloured. 



Of two kinds Nemaspora. 



Of one kind Myxosjyorium, 



Hyaline. 



Of one kind Gloeos])orium. 



Gen. 140. MELANCONIUM, Link. 



Spores simple, oozing out in a dark 

 mass. — Berk. Outl. p. 323. Encj. Fl. v. 

 i?. 357. (Fig. 178.) 



Not autonomous. 



Fig. 178. 



1385. Melanconium bicolor. JVees. " Two-coloured Melan- 



conium." 



Stroma elevated, prominent, white ; spores compact, sub- 

 globose, olive, or olive brown. — Kees. t. 2, f. 27. Berk. Mag. 

 ZooL ^- Bot. no. 37. Cooke exs. no. 349. Fr. S.M. iii. p. 488. B. 

 ^' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 250. Didymosporium elevatum. Fr. S.M. 

 iii./). 486. Melanconium sp>hcEroideum. Eng.Fl. v. ^. 358. Didy. 

 hetulinum. Grev. t. 273. Kze. exs. no. 157. Corda. i. /. 33-34. 

 Fckl. exs. no. 84. Bisch.f. 3835. 



On birch. [United States.] 



{Fig. 178.) 



1386. Melanconium magnum. Berk. " Large Melanconium." 



Spores oval or sub-ovate, not septate. — Berk. Outl. p. 324. 

 Stilbos2:)ora magna. Eng. Fl. v. p. 357. Nemasp)ora carpinea. 



