978 Deuteromycetse, Rphaerloidacese, Sphseropsis. 



FAIRMANIA Sacc, Not. Myc. YII, Ann. Myc.»IV (1906) pag. 276 

 (Etym. a cl. Doct. Ch. E. Fairman, mycologo boreali-americano, ge- 

 neris inventore). — Pycnidia superiicialia, globoso-papillata, mem- 

 branaceo-subcarbonacea , nigra, glabra. Sporulae semilunato-reni- 

 formes, continune, fuliginece; sporophora parum evoluta. — Prre- 

 cipue forma peculiari sporulae, solea3 calcaneum exacte imitantis, 

 ab Epithyrio subgenere Coniothyrii dignoscitur. 



1. Fairmania singularis Sacc, 1. c. p. 276. — Pycnidiis gregariis v. 679 

 subsparsis. basi adnata superficialibus, globosis. nigris, nitidulis, 

 glabris, 250-300 a. diam., ostiolo acutiuscule papillato ; contextu 

 membranaceo-subcarbonaceo minute celluloso, fuligineo, celJulis 

 4-6 ]s.. diam ; sporulis semilunato-reniformibus, seu convexo-con- 

 cavis, 5-7 ;j-. diam., e latere leniter compressis, 5 ;j.. cr., hyalinis, 

 mox dilute fuligineis, nucleo crasso, dilutiore, rotundo, e latere 

 compresso ; sporophoris tenerrimis, 3-5 « 1, hyalinis. 



Hdb. in ligno putrescente Fagi americanas, Lyndonville 

 New York, Amer. bor. (Ch. E. Fairman). 



HARKNESSIA Cooke — Syll. III p. 320, X p. 269, XI p. 516, XVIII 



p. 311. 

 1. Harknessia aggregata Syd., Ann. Mycol. lY (1906) pag. 344. — 679 

 Pycnidiis hypophyllis, plerumque dense aggregatis, rotundatis, 

 atris, medio irregulariter apertis, 175-225 ;j.. diam., pariete, ut vi- 

 detur, incompleta ; sporulis globosis vel ellipsoideo-globosis, con- 

 tinuis, fuscis, 7-10'/,^ jj.. diam. 



Hah. in foliis languidis Ceanothi velutini, Salt Lake Co. 

 in Utah Americio bor. (A. 0. Gareett). 



SPH/EROPSIS Lev. — Syll. III p. 291, X p. 251, XI p. 511, XIV 

 p. 919, XVI p. 905, XVIII p. 311. 



1. Sphaeropsis citricola Mc Alpine, Fung. Dis. Citrus p. 82, t. 18, 680 

 f. 41-42 (1899). — Pycnidiis sparsis v. subgregariis, minutis, nigris, 

 semi-erumpentibus, subglobosis, circ 130 ;j.. diam. ; contextu rai- 

 nute celluloso, pallide brunneo; sporulis ellipsoideis, 5,5-7.5 « 4-4,5, 

 brunneis, coacervatis atro-brunneis, tunica crassiuscula. 



Hah. in foliis ramulisque Citri Limonis, Victoria, N. S. 

 Walcs, Queensland Australiae. — Ob minutiem pycnidiorum et 

 sporularum potius Coniothyrium. 



2. Sphaeropsis Dearnessii Sacc et Trott. SphcBvopsis Magnolice Ell. et a 

 Dearn. Fungi Columb. (1906) n. 2087, non Magnaghi (1902) 



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