Pyrenomycetse, Hysteriacefe, Hypoderma. 575 



longitudinem iBquante demum hiantibus; hymenio hygrophano, 

 udo griseo, sicco albido; ascis cylindraceo-clavatis, apice conoideo, 

 obtuso, sessilibus v. breviter pedicellatis, 80-110*8-11; sporidiis 

 parallele stipatis, rectis v. flexuosis, apice rotundatis, basi longe 

 attenuatis, acutis, 50-80 «= 1,5-2, ssepe 1-3-septatis; paraphysibus 

 filiformibus ascos superantibus, apice flexuosis v. circinatis. 



Hah. in culmis siccis Alopecuri textilis Boiss. in zona al- 

 pina M. Argasi Cappadocia Anatolia. — Socia adest Leptostromella 

 nivalis quie ;status imperfectus esse videtur. 



HYPODERMA DC. — Syll. II p. 784, IX p. 1113, XI p 389, XIV 

 p. 719, XVI p. 669. 



1. Hypoderma andinum Speg., An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires t. XIX 6256 

 (1909) pag. 435, cura icon. — Peritheciis laxe gregariis innato- 

 erumpentibus, atris, elliptico-linearibus 0,4-1 mm. long., 200-250 



[1. diam., rarissime bilobis v. furcatis, per ietatem longitudinaliter 

 dehiscentibus; ascis clavulatis basi sensim longeque attenuatis, in 

 pedicellum subbreviusculum productis, 70*16-18, octosporis, pa- 

 raphysatis; sporidiis distichis v. oblique monostichis subbotulifor- 

 mibus, leniter curvulis, 14 * 3-4, hyalinis. 



Hab ad ramulos nec non ad spinas vivas v. languidas Pata- 

 gonii pinifolii, Puente del Inca, prope Mendoza Argentina 

 America austr. 



2. Hypoderma ptarmicola Fairm., Proc. Eochest. Ac. of Sc. IV (1906) 5267 

 p. 216, tab. XX, fig. 2. — Peritheciis elongatis, erumpentibus, 1- 



4 mm. long., primum apertis, siccis fere clausis, margine integris, 

 regularibus, quandoque incurvatis, extus nigris, intus e rubro- 

 brunneo brunneis, arescendo subolivaceis; ascis clavato-cylindra- 

 ceis, apice angustatis, basi longe et anguste pedicellatis, 74-125 « 

 10-13, plerumque 80-90* 10; sporidiis oblongis, rectis v. curvis, 

 apice acutatis, 33-35 * 2-3, guttulatis et septis endochromaticis spu- 

 rie uniseptatis. 



Hab. in caulibus siccis Achillese Ptarmicae, Lyndonville 

 N. Y. Araer. bor. 



3. Hypoderma Werthianum P. Henn., Deutsche Siidpolar Exped. Bd. 6268 

 VIII (1906) Extr. p. 9, t. I, f. 12. — Maculis pallidulis; perithe- 



ciis innatis, oblonge subpulvinatis, araphigenis, sparsis v. striiformi- 

 gregariis, atris, membranaceis, rima longitudinali dehiscentibus, 

 0,6-0,8 * 4-5 ram. diam, ; ascis subfusoideo-clavatis, basi attenuato- 

 substipitatis, vertice tunicatis obtuso-rotundatis v. subacutiusculis, 



