Pyrenomycetse, SphseriaceEe, Melanopsamraa. 1G;3 



genere et ascis bifoveolatis et sporidiis ovatis septatis abhorret. 

 Diagnosim retulimus sed verisimiliter de re miscellanea agitur. 



3. Melanopsamma Jaapiana Kirschst., in Jaap Abh. bot. Ver. Prov. 3868 

 Brandenb. LII (1910) p. 138. — (Nomen nudum). 



Hab, ad caudices vetustos Alni pro Triglitz in Germania. 



4. Melanopsamma herpotrlchoides Kirschst., Verh. bot. Ver. Bran- 3869 

 denb. XLVIII (1906j p. 49. — Peritheciis dense confertis, subiculo 

 brunneo (raro nullo) insertis, nigris, piriformibus, 200 [x. diam., 

 tenui-membranaceis, in ostiolum breve nitidum productis; ascis 

 cylindraceis, sessilibus, tenuibus, apice truncatis, 80-90 ^ 3-4, octo- 

 sporis; sporidiis longe 1-seriatis, bicellularibus, hyalinis v. dilu- 

 tissime viriduhs, eUipsoideis, utrinque tenuato-rotundatis, ad se- 

 ptum plus minus constrictis, 2-4-guttulatis, 7-10 ^ 3 ; paraphysibus 

 hyalinis filiformibus, ramosis. 



Ildb. in interiore corticis putridi Betuloe dejecti, Rathenower 

 Stadtforst Borussice. 

 6. Melanopsamma valdiviensis Speg., Fungi Chilenses (1910) p. 59. — 3870 

 Maculis nullis; peritheciis sparsis v. laxe gregariis ad medium 

 usque ligno denudato infossis, ostiolo umboniformi crasso quan- 

 doque subcompresso ornatis, carbonaceis, atris, glabris, 150-200 [i. 

 diam.; ascis subcylindraceis brevissime pedicellatis, densissime pa- 

 raphysatis, 1 00-1 10 * 15-18 j sporidiis fusoideis submajusculis primo 

 grosse 6-guttulatis serius medio 1-septatis, constrictulis, hyalinis 

 V. subchlorinis, 40-45 w 7-8. 



Hab. ad truncos decorticatos Perseas Lingue prope Ciudad 

 de Valdivia, Chile Amer. austr. 



6. Melanopsamma nitida Kirschst., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenb. XLVIII 8871 

 (1906) p. 50. — Peritheciis dense gregariis, nitidis, nigris, globo- 



sis, glabris, perexiguis, oculo inermi vix conspicuis, tenuibus, fra- 

 giUbus, papilla brevi obscuriore prseditis; ascis cylindraceis v. te- 

 reti-clavatis, apice rotundatis, vix pedicellatis, octosporis, 50-60 » 

 3-4; sporidiis oblongis, subclavatis, hyaiinis, bicellularibus, intus 

 vacuis, 1-2-stichis, 6-8*2; paraphysibus parcis, filifortnibus, hya- 

 linis, ascos multo superantibus. 



Hab. ad caudices putres Pini silvestris, E-athenower Stadt- 

 forst Borussite. 



7. Melanopsamma hypoxyloides v. Hohn., Fragm. z. Mykol. III, Sitzb. 3372 

 k. Ak. d. Wissensch. Wien Bd. CXVI, Abt. I (1907) p. 121. — 

 Peritheciis areis ligni nigricantibus insertis, superficialibus, pro 

 more crebro gregariis, hemisphiericis v. ovoideo-globosis, lata basi 



