488 Sphaeropsidese^ Leptostroroacese, ScolecosporJe, Melophia. 



rulis elliptico-cyliudraceis, atrioque obtusiusculis, 20-25^:4, rectis 

 vel curvulis, 3-septatis, non constrictis, hyalinis. 



Hab. ad folia eraortua adhuc pendula Fagi obliquae in sil- 

 vis prope Ushuvaia Fuegiae. 



Sect. 5. ScolecospoPie. 

 ACTINOTHYRIUM Kunze. — Syll. III, p. 658. 



1. Actinothynum Holoschceni Passer. Diagn. F. N. IV, p. 14. - Pe- 664) 

 ritheciis sparsis v. laxe gregariis, orbiculato-scutiformibus, appla- 

 natis, atris ; contextu fibroso, medio compacto, margine breviter 

 radiante, fibris apice vix solutis; sporulis ut in Aciinoihyrio gra- 

 minis. 



Hab. in culmis siccis Scirpi HoloschoBni, 8. Andrea del 

 Taro in agro parmensi Ital. bor. 



2. Actinothyrium paraguayense Speg. F. Guar. II, n. 177. — Maculis ^^^2 

 amphigenis, parvulis, 1-3 mra. diara., elliptico-orbicularibus, albis 



vel pallescenti-albis, determinatis, sjepius areola majuscula, fusce- 

 scente ciuctis; peritheciis in maculis amphigenis sparsis v. dense 

 aggregatis, innato-superficialibus, hemisph?ericis, dimidiato-scutatis, 

 80-90 [j.. diam., tenui-membranaceis, atris; contextu parenchyma- 

 tico-radiante, fumoso-fuligineo; ostiolo parum perspicuo, impresso; 

 sporulis cyiindraceo-fusoideis, utrinque acutissimis, 15-20^1,5-2, 

 falcatis, continuis, hyalinis. 



Hab. ad folia languida Pothi pinnatifidse in silvis prope 

 Guarapi Brasiiiae. 



MEIOFHIA SacG. Syll. III, p. 658. 



1. iHlelOphia ¥icti£ria8 Sacc. Melophia phyllachoroidea Cooke in Grev. 6643 

 XIX, p. 91 (1891), nec Speg. — Peritheciis sparsis, amphigenis, 

 convexis, basi appianatis et scutatis, nigris, 0,5-1 mm. diam., intus 

 albis, ajquaiibus, levibus; sporulis filiformibus, curvis vel flexuo- 



sis, hyalinis, 25 y.. long. 



Hab. in foliis Leptosperrai levigati, Victoria Australiae 

 (Martin). 



2. Sfielophia nigrlmacula Speg. Guar. I, p. 153. — Maculis epiphyl- qca^ 

 lis, sparsis, majusculis, 3-6 mm. diam., subcircularibus, subdefinitis, 

 centro nigro, zona fulva fuscescenti-raarginata cincto ; stromatibus 

 centro maculee insidenti-innatis, non pulvinatis, vix rugosis, 2-4 

 mm. diam., coriacellis; contextu indistincto, fusco-olivaceo; loculis 



