MELAXCOIflEl. 



471 



Carp. ii. t. xv./. 9. Corda. Anl. t. G. f. 69, no. 11-13. Biscli. /. 

 3859. Nees.ii.f.^X. Corda. Icon. Hi. f. '^2. Steganospoimm eleva- 

 tum. Reiss. Bat. Zeit. 1853, t. 3, /. 24-27. FcJd. exs. no. 95. Kl. 

 exs.no. 1853. 



On oak twigs. 



Conidiiferous condition of Melanconis umbonoJa Tul. The spores are very 

 broadly fusiform on slender sporophores, the endochrome divided into four 

 or five transversely elliptical portions^ scarcely coloured •0017- 002 in, 



{Fig. 182.) 



Gen. 145. 



FESTALOZZIA, De Not. 



Spores septate, seated on a long 

 peduncle, crested above. — Berk. Outl. 

 p. 324. {Fig. 183.) 



1401. Festalozzia Guepini. Besm. 



" Camellia Pestalozzia." 



Amphigenous, black, scattered ; 

 spores fusiform, pedicellate, hyaline 

 at each extremity, 3-4 septate ; 

 crowned with 3-4 very slender, hya- 

 Fig. 183. line, divergent set£e. — Desrn. exs. no. 



1084. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1840, xiii.;;. 182. Corda. Anl. t. F. f. 58, 

 710.8, 9, ^.4,/. 1-3. Fckl.exs.no. o22. Fay. f. 361. 



On Camellia leaves. [Low. & Mid. Carolina,] 



(Fig. 183.) 



1402. Festalozzia funerea. Desm. " Cypress Pestalozzia." 



Pustules black, scattered, erumpent. Spores fusiform, shortly 

 pedicellate, hyaline at each extremity, 4-septate, crowned above 

 with 3-5 filifoiTQ hyaline, short, straight, divergent appendages. 

 — Desm. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 1843, xix.j). 335. 



On twigs and branches of cypress. (Dr. J. Lampray.) 



1403. Festalozzia lignicola. CooJte. "Wood Pestalozzia." 



Perithecia semi-immersed, laterally compressed, black; ostiola 

 elongated from lateral pressure ; spores cylindrical, obtuse, tri- 

 septatc, the cell at each end hyaline, intermediate cells brown ; 

 setse 2-4 hyaline, simple ; sporophores very long. 



On chips. Shere. 



This has the appearance of a Lophiostomous Sphceria, and is quite distinct 

 from anything -we find described. 



