48 STARBÄCK, ASCOMYCETEN DER REGN. EXPEDITION. 



Chaetosphaeria. 



C. castaneo-violacea Starb. nov. sp. Fig. 71 — 73. 



Perithecia in csespitibus sparsis, miniitis dense gregaria, 

 bysso supra medium vestita, papilla nitide nigra primnm pro- 

 minula, mox patellariter coUabescentia, ergo e conoideis tym- 

 paniformia, vel mutua depressione difformia, rufofusca vel 

 trans lucem byssi causa violaeeo-castanea; textura parietis 

 ipsius perithecii densissime globulosa, consistentia coriaceo- 

 carbonacea, extiis antem in byssum transeunte laxiore, rugoso- 

 lanosa, 250 — 300 /.i lata, 300 — 400 u älta. Asci ellipsoideo- 

 fusiformes, utrinque acntati vel infequilateraliter subovoidei, 

 vel cylindraceo-clavati, breviter stipitati, 55 — 64 x 15 — 18 ,«. 

 Sporidia octona, disticha vel oblique stipata, cylindracea, 

 utrinque rotundata, sursum paullum angustiora, triseptata, 

 ad medium interdum lenissime constricta, pallide fuscescentia, 

 16 — 22 X 4 — 7 u. Paraphyses hyalinse, parcse, indistinctcE (asci 

 evacuati?) adsunt. — Hah.: Brasil., Rio Grande in viciniis 

 oppidi Pio Grande, ad culmos gramineos, '^^Iti 92. N:o 94. 



Enchnospheria. 



E.(?) baccifera Starb. nov. sp. Fig. 74 — 76. 



Perithecia gregaria vel fere conferta, subiculo longo la- 

 toque, maculas atras varie limitatas formante, hyphis rigidis, 

 repentibus, septatis, brunneis, varie ramulosis, ramulis emer- 

 gentibus composito insidentia, pilis hyphis subiculi similibus, 



— 10 ^< crassis obsessa vel fere tomentosa, primo sphserioidea, 

 mox coUapsa, cupulseformia, margine obtuso, textura car- 

 bonaceo-coriacea, e fuscis atrata, 300 — 450 u diam. Asci fu- 

 soidei vel clavati, sursum rotundati, longissime pedicellati, 

 p. sp. 25 — 40 X 5 — 6,5 f.1. Sporidia octona, disticha vel fere 

 tristicha, fusoidea, utrinque acutiuscula vel superne obtusata, 

 hyalina, primo guttulis rainimis multisque, deinde 2 — 4 ma- 

 joribus ornata, demum spurie(?) uni-triseptata, 9 — 11, .t x2 — 2,5 

 (.1. Et ex hyphis subiculi et e pilis perithecii gignuntur co- 

 nidia atro-fusca, plane spheerioidea, unicellularia, et acro- et 

 pleurogena, soluta plerumque pedicello plus minusve longo 

 prsedita, ssepe autem illo appendiculo carentia, 10 — ^12 (.i diam. 



— Hah.: Brasil., Rio Grande do Sul, Col. Silveira Martins 



