376 PLANT DISEASES 



thecia crowded, variable in form; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 110-150X16-18 n; spores obovate, hyaline, i-septate, 

 basal cell much the smaller of the two, 15-20X8-10 p ; 

 pycnidia resembling the perithecia, containing elliptical, 

 pale yellow, 3~septate stylospores, 10-12x6-7 /*; sper- 

 mogonia also similar to perithecia, containing exceedingly 

 minute spermatia. 



Plowrightia ribesia, Sacc., Syll., ii. p. 635 (1883). 

 Stroma transversely erumpent, convex, black, minutely 

 granular with the ostiola, up to 2 mm. long ; loculi 

 occupying the periphery, minute; asci 85-100X12-14 /*; 

 spores 8, distichous, elongato-fusoid, slightly curved, un- 

 equally i-septate, yellowish-white, 18-20X5-6 p. 



Hysteriaceae. Ascophore erumpent, innate, or super- 

 ficial, elliptical or linear, or vertical and compressed, 

 carbonaceous or membranaceous, dehiscing by a long, 

 narrow slit, black or blackish-brown, disc not exposed at 

 maturity; asci 4-8-spored; spores hyaline or coloured, 

 continuous or septate ; paraphyses usually present. . 



Lophodermium, Chev. Perithecia innate, elongated, 

 membranaceous, dehiscing by a longitudinal slit ; asci 

 clavate or cylindric-clavate, 8-spored; spores hyaline, 

 filiform guttulate, almost as long as the ascus, arranged in 

 a parallel fascicle ; paraphyses filiform. 



Lophodermium macrosporum, Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, 

 p. 45. Apothecia black, elliptical, arranged on either side 

 of the nerve; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 100X15-21 //,; 

 spores needle-shaped, continuous, 75X1 '5 /*; paraphyses 

 filiform, apex hooked. 



Lophodermium nervisequum, Rehm, Krypt.- Flora, 



