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Srn^RTACEI. 



Gen. 352. CUCURBITARIA, Gray. 



Cfespitose, erumpent ; perithecia 

 globose, dcprcssGcl, or minutely pa- 

 pillate ; sporidia plurilocular, and 

 cellular, or two to four celled and 

 hyaline. — Tul. Carp. \\. p. 214. 



(Fig. 389.) 



2516. Cucuxbitaria laburni. 



De Not. " Laburnum Cucur- 

 bitaria." 



AscoPHORE. — Ceespitose ; stroma 

 subcompact ; perithecia globose, 

 rugulose, black ; ostiola papillie- 

 form ; sporidia multicellular, dark 

 215, ^ 27. De Not. Soc. Critt. Ital. 

 (1863), iv. p. 214. Fckl.exs. no. 965. Sphceria laburni, Pers. 

 Syn.p. 50. Nees.f. 325. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 413. Fries, exs. no. 34. 

 Movg.exs. no. 873. Eng. Fl. v. p. 253. Curr. Linn. Trans, xxii. 

 i. 49,/. 179. 



On dead branches of laburnum. {Fig. 389.^ 



Fig. 359. 

 brown. — Tul. Carp. ii. p 



2517. Cucuxbitaxia elongata. 



bitaria." 



Grev. " Elongated Cucur- 



MacPwOStylospores ovate or ovate-oblong, 3-5 septate, dark. 

 MicROSTYLOspoRES linear ovate, simple. 



AscoPHORE. — Black ; stroma very long, ambient, effused ; 

 perithecia at first immersed, then erumpent, subcasspitose, glo- 

 bose, marked with a depressed ring round the papillgeform os- 

 tiola ; sporidia dark brown, constricted in the middle, multicel- 

 lular. — Grev. t. 195. Fckl. exs.no. 970. Tul. Carp. ii. p. 217. 

 Jtabh. exs. no. 121 . Sphceria elongata, Fr. S.M. ii. p. 422. Fries. 

 exs. no. 33. Moug. exs. no. 875. Eng. Fl. y.p. 255. 



On dead laburnum, Rohinia, &c. [United States.] 



2518. Cucuxbitaria spaxtii. I)e Not. " Broom Cucurbitaria." 



AscoPHORE. — Black; stroma covered, ambient, effused; peri- 

 thecia erumpent, ovate, aggregated and confluent ; ostiola obtuse ; 

 sporidia uniseriate, dark brown, constricted in the middle, acu- 

 minate, multicellular. — De Not. Schema p. 40. Tul. Carp. ii. p. 

 21^. Fckl. exs. no. 974. Sphceria Spartii, Fries, exs. no. 234. Schm. 



