442 Sph*ropsidcas, Excipulacea), Phragmosporse, Acanthothecium. 



sparsis, innatis, cuticula tectis, dein ea scissa proiniQuiis, primitus 

 clausis, dein ore lato aportis, orbiculatis v. hysteriiforraibus, mol- 

 libus, atris. disco pallido, excipulo parenchymatfco, fuligineo, circ. 

 0,3 mra. lat. ; sporulis fusoideo-elongatis, utrinque atteuuatis, rectis, 

 nonnumquam inaequilateralibus, 3-5-septatis, chlorino-hyalinis v. 

 hyalinis, 51-75^12-15, apice setula filiformi, hyalina, circ. 60:; 

 1,5 ornatis. 



Hab. in foliis putrescentibus A 1 opec ur i pr at e ns is, Mustia- 

 la Fennis. 



EXCIPULARIA Sacc. Syll. III, p. 689. 



1. Excipularia lignicola Karst. et Malbr. Symb. Myc. Fenn. XXIV, eros 

 p. 18. — Sporulis fusoideo-bacillaribus, tenuiter 1-3-septatis, cur- 

 vulis, 12-15 = 2. 



Hab. in ligno ramorum Syringae vulgaris, Aboa Fennife. 

 — Yereraur, ait ill. Karsten, ne hasc forma eadem sit ac A^merof 

 sporhim cervinum (Pers.) Sacc. Syll. III, p. 632. 



PILIDIUM KuDze em. Sacc. Syll. III, p. 689. 



1. Pilidium siivestre (Fautr.) Sacc. Pseudostictis stlvestris Fautrey g^og 

 in Rev. myc. 1890, p. 119. — Hymenio epidermide cincto, in tres 



v. quatuor partes fisso, substellato, elliptico, flavido ; sporulis cy- 

 lindraceo-oblongis, serius 3-septatis, 4-guttuIato-oceIlatis, dimensio- 

 nibus variis, plerumque 16-22=; 5-6. 



Hab. in caulibus siccis Pastinacas sativse, C6te-d'0r 

 Galli?e. 



2. Piiidium graminicolum Peck 40 Rep. p. 62. — Peritheciis minutis, 67io 

 depressis, erumpeutibus, orbiculatis v. hysterioideis, 200-350 u.. 

 lat., late apertis, nigris, disco albido, margine laciniato-dentato ; 

 sporulis oblongis v. fusoideis, hyalinis, 3-septatis, 35-40 ;; 10-12; ba- 

 sidiis brevibus, hyalinis. 



Hab. in foliis Calamagrostidis canadensis in Mont. Mar- 

 cy Amer. bor. 



ACANTHOTHECIUM Speg. F. Puigg. n. 440 (Etym. acaniha spina, 

 seta et ihece peritheciura). — Perithecia (an sporodochia?) super- 

 ficialia, cupulata, atra, margine setulosa. Sporulas cruciato-quadrifidag 

 (X-formes) pluriseptulatas, hyalinae. — Genus perpulcrura inter 

 Excipulaceas et Tubercularieas dematieas anceps. 



