18 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAXD 2. N:0 5. 



Ph. varians Starb, nov. sp. Fig. 43 — 46. 



Perithecia macnlis priino virido-luteis vel paullum decolo- 

 ratis, denmm arescendo fuscis, vage determinatis, interdum 

 conflueiitibus, rotnndatis, 0,1 — 2 cm. diam., vel aliter formatis 

 insidentia, plurima epiphylla, nonnulla hypophylla, primo 

 innata, deinde epidermide fissa cincta, erumpentia, globulosa 

 vel, basi applaiiato, lenticularia, dense aggregata, in seriebus 

 rectis vel ourvatis, partitis pulchre ordinata, demnm omnia 

 confluentia vel periferica dispersa, textura coriacea, prismatica, 

 atrata, nitida verruculosa, 200 — 300 /x diam. Asci cylindra- 

 cei vel clavato-cylindracei, 90 x 13 .«, pars sporifera 55 — 65 /.i 

 longa, vel ovoidei (sessiles), 43 x 19 /.i. Sporidia octona, 

 distincte monosticha, seepe exteriora tantum recta, interja- 

 centia transversa, interdum conglobata, media tristicha, late 

 ellipsoidea, nebulosim guttulata, 10 — 11 x 7, ,5 — 9 ,t/. Para- 

 physes mucilaginosfB, guttulatse, hyalinee. — Hab.: Brasil., 

 Måtto Grosso, Santa Cruz da Barra in silva in foliis vivis 

 ignotis, "Vs 1894, N:o B 520 (Lindman). — Peritheciorum 

 ordine, ascorum varia forma distincta species. 



Ånthostomella. 



A. imnctulata (RoB. ET Desm.) Sacc. 



Perithecia 60 — 75 // diam. Asci 40 — 50 x 4 — 5 /<. Spo- 

 ridia 6 — 7,.') X 3,r<— 4 ji/. — Hab.: Brasil., Rio Grande do Sul, 

 Santo Angelo ad caules aridos Zea'. Maydis, ^^/i 1893, N:o 151. 



Crypto valsa. 

 C. plaleiisis SPEG. 



Asci (p. sp.) 68—80 x 11,5—12,5 ^/; sporidia 6—9 (—11) 

 X 1,5 — 2 </. — Hab.: Brasil., Rio Grande do Snl, Pedras 

 Brancas prope Porto Alegre in ramis corticatis, ^lo 1892, 

 N:o 56. — A t3q)o specimina nostra vix difierunt. Super- 

 ficies ligni stepe longe lateque nigrescit; acervuli plerumque 

 polygoni, non rare longitudinaliter usqne ad 5 mm. attenuati, 

 confluentes; asci majores, perithecia 4 — co conjuncta, inter se 

 fere libera vel confluentia, ostiolis saepissime sulcatis. Cfr. 

 C. uberrima TüL. 



