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Pyreiioraycptae. Spha»riace»v, Hyalosporsp, Boiryosphjpiia. 467 



BOTRYOSPH/ERIA Ces. ot De Not. — Syll. I p 466, IX pag. 005, 

 XI p. 295, XIY p. 624. 



1. BotryosphaBria pinicola Speg Pg. Arg. novi v. crit., p. 249 (1899). 1^92 



— Stromatft eiit\ peo, immorso, e raati'ice iiigrificata atque sub- 

 carbonacea etformato, plus minusve late ambiente, c-olliculoso-pro- 

 niinulo, asperulo, atro, ostiolis acutis exasperato ; peritheciis stro- 

 mate immersis, monostichis, dense constipatis, globulosis, rainutis, 

 150-200 fi. diam., coriacellia, albo-farctis, contextu parenchyma- 

 tico parum distincto, atro, ostiolo conoideo, plus minusve acutiu- 

 sculo breviter e stromate exserto coronatis; ascis cyhndraceo-clavu- 

 latis. 110-120 IX. longis, antice obtus^^ rotundatis, postice breviter 

 crassiusL-uleque cuneato -stipitatis, aparaphysatis, muco denso im- 

 mersis, octosporis ; sporidii^- ScBpius alterne distichis, ellipsoideo- 

 bicoviicis vel subfusoideis, utrinque subobtusiusculis, 20-27 « 7-8, 

 centro sa^pe subventricosuiis, rectis v. leniter insoqualibus, levibus, 

 continuis, eguttulatis, nubiloso-farctis, hyalinis. 



Hab. ad squamas putrescentes strobilorum Pini cujusdam in 

 Parque de La Plata Argentinge. 



2. Botryosphaeria anthuriicola Massee, Bull. Miscell. Inform. B-oy. 1693 

 Gard. Kevv, p. 185 (1899). — Stromatibus erumpentibus, disooideis, 

 atris, 1-2 mm. latis ; peritheciis subglobosis, ostiolo vix visibili ; 

 ascis cyhndraceo-fusiformibus ; sporidiis monostichis, hyahnis, elon- 

 gato-ellipticis, utrinque acutis, continuis. levibus, 17-20 %» 4-5; para- 

 physibus filiformibus. 



Hab. m foliis emortuis Anthurii gracilis, Atino, prov. 

 Cartiigo in Costarica (Donnell Smith). 



3. Botryosphaeria Arundinariae Earle, Bull. Torr. Bot. Ci. 1898. p. 360. 1694 



— Stroiiiatibus erurapentibus, pustuliformibus, epidevmide rupta 

 cinctis. minutis, plertimque circiter 1 mm. diam., irregulariter ova- 

 libus, atris; peritheciis paucis, 2-3 rarius 6-8 in quoque stromate, 

 mox partim expositis, nigris carbonaceis, ca. 3(X) pi diam., ostiolo 

 papilliforrai ; ascis elongatis, stibcylindrici.s, longe stipitatis, 12t) fx. 

 vel itltra longis, 10-12 fx. iatis; paraphysibus numerosis, mmute 



" granulosis. 4-6 p. latis; sporidiis subdistichis, continuis, hyalinis, 

 saepe intus granulosis et guttulatis, ovalibus, saepe curvuUs vei 

 inaequilateris, utrinque acutis, 20-25 ^ 6-8. 



Hah.xn culmis emortuis Arundinari ^e, Alabama Amer. bor. 

 (<>. W. Carvbb). 



