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It is found only on Filices and is especially connected to the genus 

 Stigmatopteris, recently created by G. Ghristensen. 



On the whole the fungus has been found upon the following 8 species : 



Dnjopteris patens (Sw.) Kze. — Jamaica. Leg. Willm. Max on 

 1904, nr. 2536. 



Stigmatopteris alloeoptera (Mett.) C. Chr. — Venezuela, Merida. 

 Leg. En gel. 



S. Carrii (Bak.) C. Chr. — St^Catharina, Serra do Jurape. 

 18. 9. 1897. 



S. caudata (Klf.) C. Chr. — St^ Catharina, Serra do Jurape. 

 18. 9. 1897. 



S. ichtyosma (Sod.) G. Chr. — Ecuador. Sodiro: Specim. Flor. 

 Ecuador., nr. 2616. 



S. longicaudata (Liebm.) G. Chr. — Guatemala, Purulha. Leg. 

 Tiirckheim 1907. — N. Granada, Rio Heche. Leg. Schlim, nr. 856. 



.S'. rotundata (Willd.) G. Chr. — Dominica. Leg. Eggers Dec. 

 1881. — Martinique. Flora Martin, nr. 350. — St. Vincent. Collect. 

 H. & G. Smith 189(4?). 



S. rotundata (Willd.) G. Chr. war. trinidadensis C. Chr. — Trinidad. 

 Leg. A. Fendner 1878. 



S. sp. n. ? C. Chr. (intermediate between S. ichtyosma (Sod.) G. Chr. 

 and S. nephrodioides (Kl.) — Guatemala. Leg. Tiirckheim 1906. 



Pleospora tessellata sp. n. — fig. 8. 



Pei'itheciis per corticem erumpentibus, demum superficialibus, ap- 

 planatis, depressis vel pezizoideo-collapsis, ambitu circulari vel parum 

 elongato, ^U — V2 mm. diam., nigris. Ascis maturis ellipsoideo-saccatis, 

 e pressione sporidiorum hinc inde irregulariter bul- 

 latis, p. sp. 120—140 /i X 60 — 75 /jl. Sporidiis 

 octonis, disticho-conglobatis conglobatisve, ovoideis, 

 utrinque truncatis, medio parum constrictis, trans- 

 verse conslanter 7-septatis, septis lougitudinalibus — 

 in fronte qnalibet sporidii ternis visis — regulariter 

 tessellatis, 40— 50 /i x 21—26 (i, obscure brun- 

 neis, demum impellucidis, tunica mucosa persistenti, 

 ad 4 /i crass., hyalina indutis. 



Ad ramulos siccos corticatos Zygophyllacearum sp. in Chili (Herb. 

 A. Lucae in the Copenhagen Herb. Legit Cuming). 



Fig. 8. Pleospora 

 tessellata sp. n. 



Two spores («-^/i). 



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