966 Deuteromycetse, Sphaerioidacese, Coniothyrium. 



Adest quaadoque forma epixyla stromatibu^ deminutis, immo s;e- 

 pius in pycuidia discreta, globoso-conica, subrostellata solutis. 

 1. Endothielia gyrosa Sacc. 1. c. p. 273. — Stromatibus ccrticolis 674 

 dense gregariis, subconfluentibus, rubris v. rubroaurantiis, intus 

 flavis, pulvinatis; lignicolis omnino superficialibus deminutis et 

 saepius in pycnidia solitaria v. parce connata solutis; pycnidiis 

 globulosis, 0,2-0,3 mm. diam., modo obtusis, modo conico-subro- 

 stellatis, poro latiuscule aperto; sporulis oblongis, curvulis, hya- 

 linis, eguttatis, 3 *> 1 ; sporophoris filiformibus, irregulariter den- 

 droideo-ramosis, 40-55 >»' 1, intermixtis nonnullis subindivisis. 



Hdb. in cortice et ligno nondum putrescentibus Quercus, 

 Carpini, Castaneie, -iEsculi etc. plerumque socio statu 

 ascophoro lEndothia gyrosa ')) in Europa et America bor. Formam 

 epixylam pulcre rostellatam, Sphceroncemellce temulam, in Quercu 

 ex Alba Pedemontii communicavit cl. prof. T. Ferraris. 



Sect. 2. Plueosporje. 



CONIOTHYRIUM Corda — Syll. III p. 306, X p. 261, XI p. 5l4, 



XIV p. 922, XVI p. 909, 1156, XVIII p. 302. 

 1. Coniothyrium Heliebori Cooke et Mass., Sacc. Syll. X (1908) p. 



261. — var. Hellebori-viridis C. Mass., Osserv. fitol. in Madonna 



Verona v. II, (1908) Extr. p. 10. — Maculis subovalibus 2-3 



cent. latis, fuliginosis, dein pallescentibus, concentrice rugulosis; 



pycnidiis epiphyllis punctiformibus nigris, prominulis; sporulis 



6 subgloboso ovoideis 5-6 *^ 3-4. 



Ilah. in foliis Hellebori viridis, prope Cogolo, Verona 



Italiae bor. 



*) Praeenntibns ill. Tdlasnb et Fuckel, nomen Endofhice gyroscB in Sylloge 

 reoepi, sed ex antopsia speoiminum originalinm Sohweinitzii (testibus auctor. 

 amerioanis) evinoitnr speciem nostram oum Sphceria radicali Sohw. perfeote 

 oollidere, non vero cnm Sphceria gyrosa Sohw., qnas heterogenea v. dnbia manet. 

 Qna de re nostra reotius Endothia radicalis (Schw.) De Not. dioenda est. — Quod 

 ad Diaporthem, parasiticam Murr. (= Endofhia parasifica (Murr.) Anders.) atti- 

 net, hfBO quam maxime aocedit ad End. radicalem, sed quia vere parasitioa (et 

 pathogena!) et quia omnibus partibns nonnihil (etsi perpanllulo) sit major, di- 

 stinguenda videtur. Diceretur forma ob parasitismnm exaltata Endothice radi- 

 calisl Cfr. supra p. 390 et E. Pantanelli in Rend. Acc. Linc. 1912 p. 869, ubi 

 vexata qnaestio clare exponitur. 



