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ridia globosa, simplicia. Simplex, absque vele & re^: 



ceptaculo, 



HIST. Genus primum Stegiam dixi, nescius 

 generis homonymi JDecandoilei inter Malvaceas ; mu- 

 tavi in Eustegiam, curn Eustega Brown vix a Con- 

 volvulo separanda. Analogia summa cum Atradlo- 

 holo & cum sequente, Species unica certa, minu- 

 ta, gregaria, rigida, glabra, regularis, lignatilis» 



I. EUSTEGIA discolor. l c. t. 8- f. 2. 



Perithecii pars inferior Pezizceformis, submera- 

 branacea, atra, margine concolori prominente cin- 

 gens operculum convexum disco leviter papillato- 

 umbonatum deciduum fusco-rufescens ; intus albi- 

 da, dein evacuata cava. Ad asseres ^ineos, raro; 

 vere, (v. s.) 



Ohs, S. complanata Ilicis Moug, €f KestU ' n. 82» 

 innata quidem; sed circumscissa dehiscit, An hujus ge« 

 neric. 



III. LOPHIUM. Fries. 



Fries Ohs, a. p» 345, pro parte« 



CHAR. Perithecia verticalia, compressa, sub* 

 membranacea, clausa, rima longitudinali dehiscen- 

 tia. Nucleus ex ascis erecStis, paraphysibus immixtis, 

 sporidia simplicia exigua includentibus, mox in pul- 

 verem faliscens, evacuatus. Simplex^ vetonuih^ 

 crustce siibinde insidens. 



HIST. Fungi epiphyti, emerso-superficialcj, 

 liberati, glabri, rigidi, fragiles, conchae valvas sibi 

 incumbentes exadle referentes. Nulla Spharia libe- 

 re evoluta compressa, dehiscens, velo destituta, nu» 

 cleo in pulverem fatiscente &c. gaudet, quare ge- 

 nere certe distinguend^» Ab Hysteriis differt pe- 

 ritheciorum indole & nucleo fatiscente evacuato. 



1. L. mytilinum, subpedicellatum, sursum dilata* 

 tuni; transversim striatum, atroniteus. 



