30 STARBÄCK, ASCOMYCETEN DER REGN. EXPEDITION. 



laxe coinposito insidentia vel ad basin obvolnta, obconice 

 sphferioidea, primo umbilicatim, deinde cupulariter collapsa, 

 ochracea vel luteo-mellea, obscure rubicnndo-papillulata, tex- 

 tura membranaceo-carnosa, prismatico-gdobulosa, 100 — 150 y. 

 diam. Asci fiisiforines, siirsnm apiculatim atteniiati, breviter 

 pedicellati, mox difflnentes, 45—65 x 10 — 12 u.. Sporidia oc- 

 tona, disticha vel oblique monosticha, oblongata vel ellip- 

 soidea, utrinque obtusata vel detruncatula, primo simplicia, 

 ntrinque uniguttnlata, deinde 4-gnttata, uniseptata, demnm 

 verisimiliter triseptata, membrana quam minime sed distincte 

 ecbinulata, 10 — 15 x 3,5 — 4,5 u.. Conidia e basidiis hyphis my- 

 celii paullo crassioribus acrogena, ellipsoidea vel ovoidea, 

 5 — S X 2 — 3 [/.. — Hah.: BrasiL, Rio Grande do Siil, col. 

 Ijuhy in trunco humi jacente, -^/s 93. X:o 305. — Species 

 sporidiis formaque peritbeciornm nec non subiculo candido 

 prredistincta. 



C. (Mesonectha) sulphurella Starb. nov. sp. Fig. 53. 



Perithecia nonnnlla in ctespitnlis gregariis acervata vel 

 fere confluentia, globosa vel pauUum conoidea, rubra, pilis 

 brevilms, hyalinis, aureo-snlphureis granulis incrustatis, sterili- 

 bns, septatis, apice rotnndato-obtnsatis, ad verticem eleganter 

 flexuosis, 12 — 24 x 10 — 12 jy., nbique obsessa, qua cansa nudo 

 oculo anreo-pulvernlenta vel primo obtnitn anreo-rnbella, 

 textura prismatico-globnlosa, 150 — 200 ;j, diam. Asci cylin- 

 dracei, deorsum attenuati, snrsum auteni detrnncati, 38 — 

 45 X 6 — 8 iJ.. Sporidia octona, disticha vel oblique monosticlia 

 vel irregulariter stipata, fusoidea vel fnsoideo-ellipsoidea, 

 utrinque obtusa, primo quadri-guttulata, deinde uniseptata, 

 demum verisimiliter tri-septata, 10 — 12 x 3 — 4 [j.. — Hab.: 

 BrasiL, Rio Grande do Sul, col. Ijuhy ad corticem trunci 

 humi jacentis, -'^/a 93. N:o 305. — Nectrice Mantuance Sacc. 

 peraffinis, modis autem ascorum, colore peritheciorum nec non 

 pilorum satis satisque distincta. 



Ijuhya Starb. nov. gen. 



Perithecia textura vitreo-membranacea, hyphis vix visibili- 

 bus composita, discoideo-cylindracea, centro ore minutissimo, 

 periphysibus cincto, pertusa, pilis rigidis, hyalinis, membrana 

 crassissima, centrum versus erectis, simplicibus, brevibus, mar- 



