BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 25. AFD. III. N:0 1. 11 



^^1 1893. N:o 215. — Evolutione sporidiorum preedistincta, 

 speciei nulli adhuc descriptee affinis. Hymenium jodi ope 

 intense coerulescit. 



K. rufo-atra Starb. nov. sp. Fig. 15. 



Apothecia sparsiin gregaria, primitus sphserioidea, clausa. 

 deinde aperta, crasse patellaria, sessilia, centro fere tantiim 

 affixa, fere immarginata, orbicularia vel plerumque ellipsoidea 

 vel varie limitata, sicca contracta, ssepe Kysterioidea, atrata, 

 textura ceraceo-carnea, 200 — 300 [/. lata. Asci late ciavati, 

 sessiles, superne fere detruncatim rotundati, paullum incras- 

 sati, 60 — 65 x 19 — 22 u; initio interdnmque etiam evoluti 

 oylindracei, 76 x 12 ;x. Sporidia octona, constipata vel disticha, 

 ellipsoidea vel pleriiinr|iie ovoidea, medio leniter constricta 

 et uniseptata, j)arte superiore ssepissime globuloidea, inferiore 

 angiistioreque obconica, obtusa, fuliginea, 19 x 9 — 10 y.. Para- 

 physes copiosfe, pro ratione crasse filiformes, 2,6 [7. latse, 

 superne claviila sajpiiis hinc inde incrassatula, 4 [x lata prte- 

 ditcie et chlorino-fnscescentes, massa fusca cohjierentes, epi- 

 thecium formantes. — Hah.: Brasil., Rio Grande do Sul, 

 Santo Angelo pr. Caclioeira in cortice fruticis cnjusdam, -'/i 

 93. N:o 219. — Cum Ä'. biielUoidi Sacc. Syll. VIII. p. 780 

 plurimis notis congruens apotbeciis majoribus, hnmectatis 

 rufidulis, sporidiis pro ratione crassis divergit. 



Melaspilea. 



M. karschioides Stare. nov. sp. Fig. 16. 



Apothecia sparsim gregaria, superficialia vix basi paullum 

 innata, primitus plane spba^rioidea, clausa, deinde ore integro, 

 varie determinato aperta, denique madefacta patellariter appla- 

 nata vel convexula, margine excipuli vix distincto, rotundato- 

 turaidulo, disco rufulo, marginem versus nigrescente, extus 

 atrata, rugosiuscula, orbicularia vel ellipsoidea, 100—250 y. 

 diam. vel longa; sicca distinctius marginata, Scepe hysterioide 

 contracta. Asci ciavati vel clavato-cylindracei, fere sessiles, 

 sursum rotundati, crasse tunicati, 30 — 40 x 9 — 10 a. Sporidia 

 octona, constipata, ellipsoidea, utrinque seepe acutiuscula. 

 inä?(|uilateralia vel varie curvula, primo hyalina, deinde le- 

 niter chlorino-olivascentia, 9 — 10 x 4 — 5 y.. Paraphyses fili- 

 formes, ascos vix superantes, superne perpaullura clavulatim 2,:> 



