580 PyreiiomycetEe, Sphaeriacese. Ph^ophragmicB. Melogramma. 



cliis fnsoideis, curvuUs, 38-42 %^ 9, e pallido brunneis, l-septatis, sub- 

 coustrictis, 4.-guttatis, monostichis v. subdistichis. 

 Ilah. in ramis dejectis Fagi iu Heh-etia. 



3. Melogramma horrldum Ell. et Ev. BuU. Torr. Bot. Cl. 1897, p. 134. 2225 



— Stroniatibus eiongatis, '/^ cm. altis, 2-3 mm. latis, dense caj- 

 spitose confertis subcontluentibusque, superficie coUiculosa, ostiohs 

 quadrisulcatis, firmis, echinatis asperatis; peritheciis ovato-globosis, 

 '/^-'/j mm. diam., tenue coriaeeo-tunicatis. intus atris nitidisque, 

 superficie stromatis immersis; ascis cylindraceis, 103-110 «JO (p. 

 sp. 80-85 «10); sporidiis uniseriatis, ellipticis, hyalinis, 3-septatis, 

 G-guttulatis, vix constrictis, 14-16 v 7-8 (postremo interdum muri- 

 formibus). 



Hab. in ramis Fagi ferruginea? in Canada (Dearness). — 

 Habitu Eufypam spinosam m raeraoriam revocat. 



4. Melogramma Betulae Oud. et Destree, Revis. de Champ. TI,"p. 320. 2226 



— Stromatibus numerosis, sine ordine dispositis, primo epidermide 

 tectis, dein erurapentibus et epidermide cinctis, conicis, nigris, 

 '/j-l mm. diam. ; peritheciis 1-3 in quoque stromate, vix promi- 

 nentibus, coUo brevi obtuso; ascis angust^ ciavatis, breve stipi- 

 tatis, 160-180 « 6, octosporis; sporidiis primo distichis, dein mo- 

 nostichis, cylindraceo-fusiformibus, rectis v. lenissime curvulis, 

 hyalinis, continuis, primo 3-guttulatis, dein subfuliginosis et 3-se- 

 ptatis, haud angustatis, 22-26 « 6-5 '/, ; paraphysibus artioulatis, 

 ascos multo superantibus. 



Hab. in ramis Betulae albfle in HoUandia (Dbstree). 



5. Melogramma boreale EU. et Ev. Proc. Acad. PhUad. 1895, p. 426. 22-^ 



— Stromatibus gregariis, erumpentibus, epidermide lacerata cin- 

 ctis, suborbicularibus v. irregularibus,- 1-2 ram. diam., interdum 

 confluentibus et subfiexuosis, nigris; ostioHs obtusis, prominenti- 

 bus ; peritheciis stromate innatis, haud numerosis ; ascis clavato- 

 cylindraceis, 75-80 >=' 12, .breve stipitatis, paraphy-satis, octosporis; 

 sporidiis distichis, clavato-oblongis v. ovato-oblongis, medio uni- 

 septatis, ad septom constrictis, ceUulis demum in longitudine se- 

 ptatis, leniter attenuatis, aon acutis, 10-13 ^^ 3 '/^-^^/^. 



Hab. in cortice Abietis, Newfoundland Amer. bor. (WAaHORNE). 



6. Melogramma Egellngii Eli. et Ev. BuU. Torr. Bot. Club. 1895, 22» 

 p. 440. — Stromatibus subcuticularibuii, 1-2 mm. diam., ovatis, 

 apice erumpentibus, intus aibis et granuiosis, demum frustulosis; 

 peritheciis 14-20 in quoque stromate, periphericiij, ovatis, 200 p. 

 altis, 150 y. lati^, nigris, immersis, demum subUberis, supra in 



