802 SPH^RIACEI. 



fusispora,Duh?/. Klotsch.exs. 1832. Bot. Zeit. (1854) j?. 204. Sph. 

 melo/jramma, F)\ S.M.ii.j^. 420. Desm. exs. no. 971. Fckl. exs. 

 no. 1033. Curv. Linn. Trans, xxii t. 49, /. 194. Mong. exs. no. 

 274, Melogvamma vagans, De Not, Mic?\ It.ix. t. 16. Variolaria 

 melogramma^ Ball. t. 492,/. 1. 



On hornbeam bark. 



Sporidia ■04.-05 m.m. long, •004--0a6 m.m. broad. (•0014--002 in. long.— 

 Cxm-e^j.) {Fig.2>m.) 



240S. Melogramxna homaleum. Fr. 



We know of no published description of this species. The 

 habit is very much like a Cucurhitaria. Asci cylindrical ; spo- 

 ridia uniseriate, trisejDtate, with an occasional transverse septum, 

 constricted, brown. — Fr. S.V.S. p. 386. Fr. exs. no. 382. Bei^k. 

 Outl.p. 391. 



On dead bark. 



The above description of the fruit is from a fragment of Fries, exs. no. 

 382, kindly furnished by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. Sporidia (-00037 X "00012 

 in.) -008 X -003 m.m. 



Melogramma oligosporum, B. & Br. see Cucurhitaria macro- 



spora. Tul. 



2407. Syielogxaxnma xubxo-notatum. B.(^Br. "Brick red 



Melogramma." 



Pycnidia. — Perithecia rather crowded ; stylospores small, 

 elliptical, hyaline. — Phoma nlmicola, Berk. Hook. Journ. v. (1853) 

 t. 3, f.n. Ann. N.H. xiii. (1854), no. 737. 



AscoPHORE. — Perithecia confluent ; ostiola papill£eform, brick- 

 red ; asci linear ; sporidia oblong, triseptate. — B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 894. Massaria lateritia, Tul. Carp. ii. p. 243. 



On elm bark. Dec. King's Cliffe. 



At first bursting through the cuticle and forming distinct round patches, 

 which, however, at length run together into a nearly uniform mass ; peri- 

 thecia confluent; ostiolum papillseform, perforated, the perforation surrounded 

 with brick-red meal ; asci linear ; sporidia uniseriate, oblong ("0006 in.) "015 

 m.m. long, triseptate. When the red meal is rubbed oflfit looks as if it be- 

 longed to the tribe Concrescentes. ~ B. 4' Br. 



2408. IVIelogranixna gyxosuxn'. Tul. " Orange Melogramma." 



Spermogonia. — Spermatia very minute, ovate cylindrical, 

 simple. 



AscopHORE. — Subrotund, confluent, orange-vermillion ; stroma 

 yellowish ; perithecia gyrose, pulverulent, at length slightly pro- 



