Sphferiacetc, Plueosporae, Anthostoma. 47 



exerto ac corticem subpustulatiin elevante, disculuni parvulutn, 

 centro portusuni, nivouni exerente; ascis cylindraceis, antice obtuse 

 rotundatis atque crassissime tunicatis perforatisque, postice breviter 

 attenuato-pedicellatis, 150-180;; 15-20, paraphysibus crassiusculis, 

 guttulatis, raris, obvallatis, octosporis; sporidiis oblique monosti- 

 chis, ellipticis, 20-34 c: 1 ,'-20, utrinque rotundatis, rectis vel inne- 

 quilater'alil)us, plus minusve intense ac subopace fuligineis. 



llab. ad corticem putrescenlem arborum in silvis subvirgi- 

 nois prope Guarapi Dras. — Species pulcherrima, corticem ostio- 

 lis candidis perforantibus, mox dignoscenda ! 

 *13. Anthostoma stomaticum (Cooke) Berl. et Vogl. Cooke Botri/o- o3.^o 

 sphccria stomaltca Cooke in Grevillea Xlll, pag. 102, Sphcvria 

 stomatica Schwein. in Herb. iierk. — Latissime effusa, emer- 

 gens, lignum atro inquinans; peritheciis semiimmersis, majuscu- 

 lis, ostiolis validis, prominentibus, cylindraceis, obtusis, insignibus; 

 ascis clavatis, octosporis; sporidiis elliplicis, continuis, fuscis, 

 12-13^5. 



Hab. in ligno piiti-i, Indiana Amer. bor. (Schweiniz). 

 *22. Anthostoma? gigasporum (Cooke et Hark.) Berl. et Vogl. Spha> r.33i 

 ria gigaspora Cooke et Hark. in Grevillea XIII, p. 18. — Spar- 

 sum, subimmersum, tuberculis orbicularibus, elevatis tectis e sub- 

 stantia matricis efformatis ; peritheciis globosis, magnis, iyo-2 mm. 

 diam., ostiolo obtuso, nigro prteditis; ascis amplis, saccatis, octo- 

 sporis; sporidiis elongato-ellipticis, utrinque leniter attenuatis, con- 

 tinuis, (35-80 =; 25-30, atro-fuscis. 



llab. in sarmentis decorticatis in California (Harkness). 

 — Habitu Anth. cabiculari affine. 

 23. Anthostoma Carteri (Herk. et Cooke) Berl. et Vogl. Fuckelia r,332 

 Carieri lierk. and Cooke in Grevillea XII, p. 51. — Erumpens, 

 bemisphaericum, demum liberum, atrum, composituin, '/•>"! 'ii'^!- *'•' 

 stromate corticali primitus fusco, velato; peritheciis tenuibus, mem- 

 branaceis, subglobosis, immersis, vix papillatis; ascis cylindraceis, 

 substipitatis; sporidiis ovalibus, atro-fuscis, 12^9. 

 llab. in corticibus, Bombay in India (D. Carter). 

 32. Anthostoma insidens (Schw.) Berl. et Vogl. Fuckelia imidens 0341 

 Cooke in Grevillea XII, pag. 52, Sphceria insidens Sch\v. in Fr. 

 S. Myc. II, 422, Mi?'mcecium? insidens Sacc. Syll. I, p. 601. — 

 Effusum; stroma subrotundum, innatum, fusco-nigrum ; perithecia 

 emergentia, conferta, ovata, flexuosa (nec carbonacea), subpapillata ; 

 asci cylindrici; sporidia uniserialia, elliptica, pallide fusca, 8^4. 



