Pyrenomycetese, i^pheeriacese, Pliseodidymse, Massariella. 739 



subglobosis, valde convexis, proraiiiulis, vertice pertusis; ascis fere 

 cylindraceis (sec. icon. clavatis, deorsum stipitiformi-attenuatis), 

 8-sporis; parapiiysibus distinctis, teouibus capillaribus ; sporidiis 

 inordinatis, oblongis vel clavatis, bicellularibus, haud vel paruni 

 constrictis, pallide fuscidulis, 12-16 ^j 4-5. 



IJab. in disco apotheciorura Lecanorae subfuscaB var. bry- 

 oDtha? in Germania. 

 48. DidymosphaBria Sporastatiae (Anzi) Winter in Hedw. 1886, p, 25, 3o?3 

 Polycoccum Sporasiatice Arnold in Flora 1874, p. 144, tab. II, 

 fig. 9. Tichothecium Sporasiatice Anzi Neosyrabolae pag. 17. — 

 Peritheciis sparsis, fere omnino iraraersis, globosis, vertice tantum 

 paruni convexo pertusoque prominulis, atris; ascis oblougis, 17 fx. 

 crassis; sporidiis distichis, oblongo-clavatis, inaequaliter didyrais, 

 medio parura coQstrictis, fuscis, 17-23'«» 7-8. 



Hab. in thallo Sporastatiae cinereae in Germania. 



IVIASSARIELLA Speg. - Syli. I, p. 716. 



1. MassarielJa vibratilis (Fuck.) Sacc. — Syll. I, pag. 716. — var. 3024 

 Mespili Pass. in Brun. Nouv. Fragra. p. 29. — Peritheciis carbo- 

 naceis, cortice tectis, erumpeutibus, ostiolo papillato; ascis cylin- 

 draceis, paraphysibus brevibus cinctis; sporidiis ovoideis, raedio ob- 

 scure septatis, strato tenui, hyalino involutis, 25=; 12. 



Hab. iii ramis emortuis Mespili g e r m a n i c £8, Pessines pr. 

 Saintes Galiiss. 



2. Massarielia scoriadea (Fr.) Cooke Grev. XVII, p. 93. Anthosioma 

 scoriadeum (Fr.) Sacc. Syll. 1127. — Sporidia elliptica, uuiseptata, 

 70 * 23, loculo superiore raajusculo, raedio constricta, episporio crasso, 

 hyalino. Ex Cookei autopsia Scler. Suec. n. 314. 



3. Massariella seriata Cooke Grevill. XVII, pag. 92. — Peritheciis 3025 

 depressiusculis, raajusculis, seriato-disoositis, peridermio tectis, de- 

 muni fissis; ascis clavatis; sporidiis ellipticis, 60 s 18-20, 1-septa- 



tis, raedio constrictis, fuscis, loculis aequalibus, episporio crasso, 

 hyalino obvolutis. 



Hab. in ramis Caryae, S. Carolina (Ravenel). 



4. Massariella didymopsis Moutou in Bull. Soc. R. Bot. Belg. 1886, 3026 

 p. 151. — Peritheciis spursis, corticolis, gluboso-depressis, '/3 rara. 

 diam., peridermio uigrificato connexis, ostiolo brevi erumpente; 

 ascis cyliiidraceis, breve stipitatis; paraphysibus ramulosis obval- 

 latis, jodii ope non co^rulescentibus, octosporis, 115-160 s 17-20; 

 sporidiis rnonostichis, ellipsoideis, uniseptatis, constrictis, loculis 



