PyrenomycetesB, t>othideace8e, Phseosporse, Auerswaldia. 103;^ 



?nerosissirais, minutis, 150 u. diam., e mutua pressiorie angulosis, 

 Jiucleo opalesceriti-albo farctis,- ascis cylindraceis, apice obtuse ro- 

 lundatis, tunica incrassata, postice breviter noduloseque attennato- 

 stipitati^, 65-70 3 7-10, aparapliysatis, 8-sporis; sporidiis cymb?E- 

 formibus, utrinque acute obtusatis, 12-13=; 5, non v. mioote 2-f^ut- 

 tulatis, fuligineis. 



Hab. ad cuimos dejectos putresceotes Bambusace» sarmen- 

 tosffi cujusdam in silva subvirginea Caa-guazu prope Arroyo-guazii 

 Brasiliae — Species a genere nonnihil deflectens et facile generi 

 Hypoxylo adscribenda; characteres tamen loculorum fere sine du- 

 bio dothideacei: au huc Hyp. cuhnorum v. Hi/p. per/bratum ? 



6. Auerswaldia (iisciformls Winter in Hedw. 1884, p. 100. - Stro- im 

 raatibus amphigenis, rotundatis seu irregularibus, s?epe angulatis, 

 disciformibus, erumpentibus, epiderraide fissa laciniis latis, recur- 

 vatis, airatis cinctis, atris, opacis saepe rugulosis, multilocularibus, 

 usque 5 mm. lat. saepe conflueotibus; loculis omnino immersis, 

 haud prominulis, dense stipatis, globosis; ascis numerosissimis, cy- 

 lindraceis, dr^orsura parum attenuatis, 8-sporis, 100-136*14-16; 

 sporidii.s oblique monostichis seu subdistichis, ellipsoideis, continuis, 

 olivaceis, 17- 19 s 8 9; paraphysibus non distinctis. 



Hab. in foliis vivis Myricae cujusdam prope Capetown in Pro- 

 montorio BouEe Spei. 



7. Auerswaldia puccinioides Speg. Fungi Guar. Pug. I, n. 282. — 4ih 

 Macuiis nullis v, parvuiis, vix manifestis, pallescentibus; stroma- 

 tibus superficiaiibus, hypophyilis v. rarius amphigenis, globosis v. 

 hemisphaerico-sublenticularibus 0,5-1,5 mm. diam., glabris, levibus 

 (sub lente minuterugulosis), intus extusque fusco-ferrugineo-atris, 

 sparsis v. laxe gregariis, non confluentibus, basi rotundato-coar- 

 ctatis, puncto centrali tantum matrici adnatis, coriaceo-carnosis, 

 contextu indistincto; loculis periphericis, globulosis, minutis, 140 



w. diam., pulpa fusca repletis ; ascis clavato-cylindraceis, tunica 

 crassissima, antice rotundatis, postice louge attenuato-pedicellatis, 

 p. sp. 70-80 ¥ 18, ped. 50-60 ^ 5, 8-sporis, parapliysibus paucis ob- 

 vallatis ; sporidiis recte distichis, ellipticis v. elliptico-ovoideis, re- 

 ctis V. leniter insequilateralibus, utrinque obtusiusculis, 12-15^6, 

 olivaceis, eguttulatis. 



Hab. ad folia viva coriacea planta^ cujusdam in silva Abbocaiate 

 prope Villa Rica Brasilia\ — Species pulcherrima, prredistincta, 

 primo obtutu facillime pro Puccinic^ specie quadam suraenda, ge- 

 neribus Hyporylo v. HypocreHcr; pluribus cliaracleribus accedens. 



