18 Perisporiacese, Perisporieffi, Meftola. 



rente, tenui, plagulas orbiculares, magnitudine varias, 1-5 mm. 

 diam., atras, opacas efficiente, ex hy[)liis sterilibus, repentibiis, den- 

 se intertexto-ramosis, muco conjunctis, hyphopodiis ovoideo-capi- 

 tulatis, 20 :; 8-10, basi 1-2-septatis, suboppositis, ornatis etlbrmato, 

 iiyphis conidiferis destituto; peritheciis globosis vel globoso-de- 

 pressis, 140-20J y.. diam., atris, glabris, granulosis, membrana- 

 ceo-coriaceis, contextu subindistincto, crasse parenchymatico-cellu- 

 loso, subopaco, atro-fuligineo; ascis bisporis, cito difilnentibus; 

 sporidiis elliiiticis, utrinque rotundatis, 30-32^18-20, 4-septatis, 

 ad septa constrictulis, loculis granuloso-guttulatis, primo liyalinis, 

 dein opace fuligineis. 



Hab. ad folia viva Rutacea^ speciei cujusdam in silvis sub- 

 virgineis prope Piragu Bras. 



0. Meliola cladotricha Lev. — Sacc. Syil. I, p. 63, Winter in Hedw. 285 

 1885, 1. — Asci ovato-piriformes, breviter pedicellati, 8-spori, 100- 

 105 s 44-50; sporidia conglobata, cylindracea, utrinque late rotun- 

 data 3-septata, ad septa parum constricta, muco hyalino obvoluta, 

 badia, 44-52^12-14. 



Hab. ad Melaleucre cujusdam folia viva, New-Guinea (M. 

 Tarlank) et ad folia Eugeniarum in Australia (Mjiller). 



*10. Melioia balsamicola Peclv in 34 Rep. St. Mus. pag. 52. tab I, g2^ 

 lig. 22-27. — Peritlieciis paucis, gregariis, minutis, ovoideis vel 

 subconicis, atris, liberis, mycelio, pai-co, brunneo-nigricante, ma- 

 cula.'fornH insidentibus; ascis saepe oblongis, raro subcylindraceis 

 et elongatis; sporidiis stipatis vel disticbis, raro monostichis, uni- 

 septatis, hyalinis 8-11 y.. longis, sa^pe 2-3 nucleatis, loculo paul- 

 lum crassiore. 



Hab. in foliis vivis vel languidis Abietis balsamea? in 

 montibus Catskill Amer. bor. 



*11. Meliola ampullifera Wint. in Rev. iMyc. 1885. — Mycelio te- 623 

 nuissimo, srepe fere obliterato, maculas rotundatas vel irregulares, 

 usque 5 mm. latas, cinereo-atras formante, ex hyphis repentibus, 

 ramosis septatisque, fuscis, 7 u. crassis, dense intertextis formato ; 

 hyphopodiis sa?pe oppositis, sessilibus, e basi ventricosa, in collum 

 longum, c^Iimlricum, sa»pe flexuosum attenuatis, fuscis, 30 y. lon- 

 gis, basiin versus 5,5-0 y. crassis, a|)ice 3,5 y. latis ; poritheciis 

 nnmerosi'^. gregariis, depresse globosis. mox collapsis, concavis, 

 opace atris, verr'ucuIosis, 220-270 •/. diam.; ascis ellipsoideo-ob- 

 longis, sessilibus, 3-4-sporis, 80-96:^35; sporidiis cylindrico-ob- 



