AUCTORE J. I)E KOTAIU3 4^' 



EXPMCATIO 1COXIS II. 



i. Accrvula duo ail perpendiculum seria decies circiter aucta. 



2. Pars Duclei atl augment. 4 00 diametr. 



3. Sporidia nonnulla ad augment. 700 diametr. quorum alter a. ex 



asco juniore depromtum. 



~). Sphaeru bobdabu. 



Fries Svst. 2. p. 458. Scleromyc. sure. n. 2^0! El. rung. 2. p. i)j. 

 Summ. vegetab. Scand, 2. p. 3ttc). Bekkel. Brit funs, p. :>.G5. 



Ad palos semiputres in Horto Botanico taurinensi, tolo anno. 



Vl \crbis nlar eeleberrimi specie! conditoris, nudo oculo sordem ni- 

 gral)! modo refert } asperginem revera atramentosam super cubilia praebet 



Pyreoia exigua, atra, opaca, ligno denudato plerumque canescente 

 adnata, superficialia , libera, per greges plus minusve numerosas, absque 

 lege dispersas, conferta, subinde connascentia, rarius solitaria, ex vertice 

 obsolete aenlato, sphaeroideo-subconieu , poro ininnlissiino, vix lenlis ope 

 conspicuo, in vertice ipso pertusa, sub acrioribus ^ iii-is tola superficie, 

 papilbs exiguis, l'uscis , piUfbrxnibus liiriula, in sicco vix collabescentia , 

 demuni varie rupta, vel a basi circumscissa. Nucleus e strato tenui sub- 

 ceraceo pallescente parietem internam pyreniorum obvestiente orinndus, 

 ascis paraphysibusque mimerosis compositus, humectus celatinifonnis, 

 leviter fuscescens, veJ potins ex sporidiis minutissime rasco-punctulatus. 

 Asci teretiuscub, octospori, obtusi ob sporidia uniserialia inoniliforinia . 

 juniores uucleo lutescente grumoso fitrcti. Parapbyses copiosissimae, fili- 

 lorines, iniplcxac. Sporidia ovoidea , simplieia , laevia, episporio ileninin 

 badio-l'uscesccnte , subchartaceo instructs . ex uucleo homogeneo deinuiu 

 subsidente intus fere \acna. 



Friirtiliealio in speciminibus Friesianis, superius eitatis , omnino at 

 in noslris ! quo charaetere, ab allinibus, Spbaeria ohdneeiis. pulvil py- 

 rius ejusque varietates, rcliquis omissis tute distinguitur. 



Species memorabilis praesertim ob eliaraeleres I'rnrtilirationis . quo 

 sub respeelu , vel ascoruin, vel Sporidiorum nempe figure, colore el di- 

 mensionibus vix a Spbaeria nummularia distingnitnr. llae specie sat su- 

 perquc demonslralur , nolas e sporidiis lantuin depromplns . in pyreno- 



