Central American Pyrenomycetes. 403 



FAMILY CERATOSTOME^. 

 Ceratosph^eria castillensis C. L. Smith, n. sp. 



Perithecia crowded-gregarious, superficial, ovate, about 

 ^ mm. dia., clothed with a thin, brown, pilose-tomentose 

 coat; ostiolum cylindrical, stout, rough, black, %-% mm. 

 long. Asci oblong-cylindrical, short stipitate, 75-85x8-10//, 

 8-spored. Parapyhses(?) Sporidia fasciculate, fusoid, slightly 

 curved, hyaline, 3-septate, 25-28x3^,". 



Differs from C. J'uscella Karst., in its tomentose perithecia 

 and curved, fasciculate sporidia. 



On bark, Castillo Viejo. (C. L. S.) 



FAMILY AMPHISPHiERIEiE. 

 No species collected. 



FAMILY LOPHIOSTOMEiE. 

 LOPHIOSTOMA OVINUM B. &^. U. Sp. 



Gregarious, superficial, sub-globose, clothed, except the 

 convex-prominent, elliptical, longitudinally cleft ostiolum, with 

 a dense, white, tomentose-squamose, closely adherent coat, so 

 as to resemble I^asiosp/icBria ovina (Pers.) Asci clavate, 

 short stipitate, about 60X10//, with abundant filiform para- 

 physes. Sporidia biseriate above, narrowed-oblong-elliptical, 

 or sub-conical, uniseptate and constricted, 15-20X4-5/^, at 

 first hyaline and nucleate, becoming at length pale brown. 



On a decaying part of a live tree, Castillo Viejo. (C. L. S.) 



FAMILY CUCURBITARIEiE. 

 No species collected. 



FAMILY SPHiERELLOIDEiE. 

 No species collected. 



FAMILY GNOMONIE^. 

 No species collected. 



FAMILY PLEOSPORE^. 

 No species collected. 



