470 MELANCONIEI. 



1396. Coryneum coxnpactum. B. d: Br. " Compact Coryneum." 



IMinute, at first covered, at length exposed ; spores broadly 

 fusiform, slightly obtuse, nuclei concatenate. — Ann. N.II. no. 449. 



On dead twigs of elm. March. Wraxall. 



[Upper Carolina, U.S.] 



Forming minute scattered pustules, at first quite covered by the cuticle, 

 at length exposed ; stroma convex, spores pedunculate, widely fusiform, 

 slightly obtuse, 4-5 septate, nuclei large, connected with one another.^ 

 B.Sf Br. 



1397. Coryneum Kunzei. Corda. " Kunze's Coryneum." 



Erumpent, disciform, black, stroma placentgeform, brown 

 within ; spores fusiform, acute at each end, septate, brown, with 

 a terminal, colourless apiculus. — Corda. Icon. lY.f. 131. Kl. exs. 

 no. 1360, ii. no. 779. Berh. exs. no. 



On dead oak twigs. 



Spores *002o-"003 in. (E.C.) The sporophores are very persistent and long, 



1398. Coryneum xnicrostictuxn. B. Sf Br. " hmall-spored 



Coryneum." 



Covered ; stroma obsolete ; spores minute, shortly lanceolate, 

 2-3 septate. — B. 4' Br. Ann. N.H. no. 451. Sporocadus rosceola. 

 Bahh. exs. no. 1166. 



On dead twigs of rose, vine, Eerria, &c. 



Scattered over the t^igs, and always concealed beneath the cuticle, which 

 cracks in the centre of each little pustule ; stroma obsolete ; sporophores 

 elongated ; spores minute, brown, shortly lanceolate, with two or three 

 septa. This has much the habit of a Hendersonia, but there are no peri- 

 thecia.- B. cf- Br. 



1399. Coryneum macrospermum. B.S^Br. "Naked 



Coryneum." 



Stroma minute, pulvinate; jflocci forked above; spores sub- 

 cylindrical, 4-5 septate, extreme articulations hyaline. — B. ^Br. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 941,^. 15,/. 12. Didymosporium macrospermum 

 Corda. yi.f. 17. Fckl. exs.no. 83. 



On elm poles. Jan. Batheaston. 



Forming little scattered spots on the surface of the wood; stroma cellular; 

 thread cylindrical, equal, forked above. 



1€00. Coryneum umbonatum. Tid. " Umbonate Coryneum." 



Erumpent, black, disciform, umbonate in the centre ; stroma 

 cellular, brown j spores oblong, on slender sporophores. — Tul. 



