M}-pocreacerc, Scolecosporae, Ophionectria. 21"? 



imiriformibiis, ad septa plus minusve constrictis, pallidissimo fla- 

 vidulis, 10-16^:7-10; parapliysibus filiformibus, loiigissimis. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis G ledi tscli iiL' Triacanthi pro[>e 

 Lexington Amer. bor. (W, A. Kellermann). 



PLEOGIBBERELLA Sacc. in litt. (Etym. plcon ef Gihherella quasi 

 (xihberella dictyospora). — Cliaracteres GibberelUv sed sporidia cel- 

 luloso-muriformia. 



*5. Pleogibberella calamia (Cooke) Berl. et Vogl. Gibberella calamia 7238 

 Cooke in Grevillea XIII, p. 8. — Peritlieciis gregariis, confertis, 

 vertice obtuso, couico, demum subcollabeiitibus, opacis, violaceo- 

 coeruleis; ascis clavatis, mox diffluentibus; sporidiis nunc ellipsoi. 

 deis, nunc cylindraceis, medio constrictis, valde irregularibus, mu- 

 riformi-cellulosis, hyalinis, 25-30^22, vel 40-50^20-22. 



Hab. in fructibus Calami fasciculati, Vizagapatam in India. 



Sect. 6. Scolecosponp Sacc. 



OPHIONECTRIA Sacc. Syll. II, p. 563. 



1. Ophionectria tropicalis Speg. P^ungi Guar. Pug. I, n. 251. — Peri- 72.39 

 theciis hypophyllis, sparsis, globosis, minutis, 100-180 u. d., in sicco 

 subsuccineis, ruguloso-contractis, udis globosis, e hyalino opacis, su- 

 biculo parcissimo, vix manifesto, tenuissimo, arachnoideo-reticulato 

 insidentibus, glabris, levibus, ostiolo minuto, vix impresso, tenuis- 

 sime membranaceis, contextu parenchymatico, sinuosulo-anguloso, 



e hyalino fulvescente; ascis fasciculatim e basi peritheciorum ex- 

 surgentibus, cylindraceis, non v. vix fusoideis, apice late rotunda- 

 tis, basi attenuatis, 75-80 s 9-10, minute brevissimeque stipitatis, 

 aparaphysatis, octosporis ; sporidiis acicularibus v. filiformibus, 50 s 

 2,5, 5-10-septatis, utrinque obtusis, in ascis longitudinalibus apice 

 recte fasciculatis, basi tortis. 



Hab. ad folia viva Blechni speciei cujusdam, soci;i Urcdi' 

 nea depauperata, in silvis prope Mbatobi Bras. 



2. Ophionectria cylindrospora (Sollm.) Berl. et Vogl. Nectria ci/lin- 72^0 

 clrospora Sollm. Bot. Zeit. 1864, p. 265. — Cjespitulis subrotun- 



dis vel oblongis, cortice interiore insertis, ex 6-24 peritiieciis 

 constantibus , peritheciis subrotundis, vel obovatis, obscure rubris, 

 levibus, indistincte papillatis, tenui-membranaceis; ascis clavatis, 

 octosporis, paraphysibus parcis, simplicibus, hyalinis obvallatis; 

 sporidiis cylindriois, leniter curvis, utrinque rotundatis, 8-16-10- 

 cularibus, hyalinis, 40-50 r;^-^'/^- 



