FUNGI OF ICELAND 475 
Asci clavate, short-stalked, 7-spored, 80—112 x 18—20 u. Spores biseriate 
or transversal, a pale yellowish brown, 5- or more rarely 6-septate, slightly 
constricted at the septa, the 3rd cell from the top prominent, straight 
or slightly curved, 25—32*8.5—10 u. Numerous filiform, interwoven para- 
Fig. 1. 
Leptosphaeria Elymi n. sp. 
a. Rachis of inflorescence with a few chaffs and mouths 
of perithecia X 3. 
b. 2 perithecia 20. 
ec. 2 asci with spores and paraphyses X 750. 
physes. Allied to Metasphaeria scirpina (Winter) Sacc., but distinguished 
with coloured spores. 
90. L. Apogon Saccardo et Spegazzini, Michelia I, p. 398. 
Ofjordsdal near Akureyri (P.L... — On dead stems of Juncus 
triglumis. 
The scattered perithecia seated beneath the epiderm, depresso-globose 
with short barely visible verruciform orifice, diameter 0.1— 0.2 mm. 
