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subdistichis^ inferne plerumque monostichis, oblongo-ellipsoideis, utrinque 

 rotundatis, ad septum non vel vix constrictis, 12 — 14V2^«x5 — 6/i hyalinis. 



Ad vaginas siccas putridasque Musae (?) sp. in insula St. Thomas 

 Indiae occidentalis. (Leg. Raunkiaer). 



St. Jan: West End 14.2.06 (nr. 3095). 



St. Thomas: 1905 (nr. 3093). 



Nectria vulgaris Speg. Fung. Arg. pug. IV, nr. 198. 

 St. Croix: Jolly Hill 5.1.06 (nr. 1725). 



Nectria sp. 



Unripe specimens. 



St. Jan: Cruz Bay 14.2.06 (nr. 1752). 



Sphaerostilbe intermedia Ferd. et Wge. sp. n. PI. I, fig. 5. 



Slromate substrato adnato vel margine libero, pedes conidiophororum 

 cingente iisque connato. convexo subplanove, hypocreoideo, 2 — 6 mm. 

 diam., in sicco pallide carneo vel luteo-albo, ostiolis peritheciorum auran- 

 tiaco-papillato, humefacto subcinnabarino. Peritheciis stromate immersis, 

 ostiolis obtuso-conicis erumpentibus, ovoideo-subglobosis, 170 — 200 /^ diam. 

 Ascis linearo-cylindraceis, apice rotundatis, 70 — 85 /i x SVa — l^h/i, sub- 

 sessilibus. Sporidiis octonis, monostichis, ellipsoideis, utrinque rotundatis, 

 nonnunquam levissime inaequilateralibus, episporio subtiliter granuloso, 

 1-septatis, ad septum non vel vix constrictis, IOV2 — 12^/2^« x 4V2 — b^h^fj., 

 flavidulis. (Sub ejaculationem sporarum asci valde elongantur, et sporae 

 altera ab altera removentur). Conidiophoris slromati concoloribus, ad 

 typum Stilbi formatis, pedicello usque 1 mm. long.; capitulo subgloboso 

 400 — 600 fi diam. Conidiis ellipsoideis vel oblongo-ellipsoideis, 4 — 8 tj. 

 X 2/^, hyalinis. 



Species S. hypocreoidi Kalchbr. et Cke. et S. hypocreoidi P. Henn. 

 (quae species in posterum melius S. Henningsii appelletur) affinis, iisque 

 quasi intermedia. 



Ad corticem arborum in insula St. Thomas Indiae occidentalis 

 (Leg. Raunkiser). 



In Grevillea IX p. 26 (t. 36 fig. 25) Kalchbrenner and Cooke 

 have described and pictured a Sphaerostilbe with Hypocrea-like stroma 

 because of which they have called it S. hypocreoides. To this fungus 

 the species here described is evidently related; our spores however are 

 more slender and less granulated {S. hypocreoides: sp. 10 — 12 x 1 fi, 

 cfr. the drawing 1. c.) and the conidia are more varying in length (5. 

 hypocreoides: con. 5x2^). On the other hand S. intermedia, here 

 described, has some resemblance with the South- American S. hypocreoides 

 P. Henn. (Fung. Blumenav., Hedw. 1902, p. 4), for which species we 

 propose the name S. Henningsii as the species-name hypocreoides is 



