PyrenomycetPP, Sphferiacese, Phfeosporse, Sordaria. 493 



subdiscoideo-depresso ; ascis clavato-oblongis, utrinque rotundatis, 

 sessilibus, octosporis; paraphysibus numerosis, indistinctis • sporidiis 

 oblongo-ellipticis, dein opacis, 30-45 v 19-21. 



Hah. in fimo equino, Kansas Amer. bor. (Bartholomew) . 



6. Sordaria ustorum Mout. Compt. rend. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. i86i 

 XXXVI, 1897, 2 part. p. 11, tab. A. f. 3. — Peritlieciis ovoideis, 

 plane v. semi-immersis, hyphis fuscidulis mycelii, 3 u. crassis, partim 

 obsitis, 300-400 a. latis, ostiolo papillato, coriaceis, fusco-atris; ascis 

 cylindraceis, stipitatis, 8-sporis, apice retusis, 160 (p. sp. 120) ^ 

 12-14: sporidiis monosticbis, ellipsoideis, basi truncatis, ibique bya- 

 linis, 3 p. long. appendiculatis, primo pallide fuligineis simulate- 

 que punctulatis, demum atro-opacis, sine app. 17 ^^ 10-12. 



Hal). in terra carbonacea pr. Liege Belgii. 



7. Sordarla clavata Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc de Fr. 1895, p. 226. — i862 

 Peritheciis sparsis vel dense gregariis, superficialibus, elongato- 

 conoideis, atris, glabris, 800-900 « 300-350 fx., coriaceis, byphis 

 paucis repentibus, crustosis, basi cinctis; ascis cylindraceis, longe 

 stipitatis, 300 ^ 15-20, octosporis, paraphysatis, filiformibus, obval- 

 latis; sporidiis brunneis, ellipticis, apice acutatis, inferne truncatis, 

 17-20 ^ 10, basi cauda hyalina auctis. 



Hah. in detritis putridis in ^Equatoria (v. Lageeheim). 



8. Sordaria minor (E. et E.) Sacc. et Syd. Podospora minor Ell. et i863 

 Ev. Americ. Natur. 1897, p. 341. — Peritheciis laxe gregariis, 

 erumpentibus, superficialibus, ovato-conicis, 500 « 400 ^., pilis brun- 

 neis laxe vestitis, ostiolo atro obtuso firmo breve cylindraceo ex- 

 cepto; ascis cyUndraceis, 150^20; sporidiis obUque monostichis, 

 ovato-ellipticis vel nucleiformibus, 25-35 « 15-22, basi appendicula 

 cylindracea, obtusa, brunneola, 12-15 « 4 munitis, apice appendi- 

 cula breviore, decidua. 



Hah. in culmis vetustis Zeae Maydisin Kansas Amer. bor. 

 (Bartholomew). 



9. Sordaria tjibodiana Penz. et Sacc. Malpighia XI, 1897, p. 395. i864 

 — Peritheciis sparsis, raro binis coalitis, subglobosis, conicd-pa- 

 pillatis, glabris, 0,7-1 mm. 'diam., carbonaceo-coriaceis, nigris ; 

 ascis cylindraceis, apice rotundatis, paraphysatis, 8-sporis, 95-110 



'** 12, stipite 56-60 «4-5; sporidiis monostichis, ellipsoideis, 12-15 

 "^ 9, fuligineis, 2-guttuIatis, utriuque brevissime apiculatis et subinde 

 strato hyalino angustissimo obvolutis. 



Hah. in foliis siccis coriaceis, Tjibodas, Java. — A Sordariis 

 phytogenis satis distincta 



