Di3comj'ceteao, DermateaD, Hyalosporae, Hplielina. 585 



oontextu interno rufescenti-fornigineo; ascis pusillis, antice rolun- 

 dato-subtruncatis, postice breviter crasseque pedicellatis 40-50 s 

 3-4,5, paraphysibus densis, fuscidulis, mucoso-diflluentibus obvallatis, 

 octosporis; sporidiis cylindraceis v. allantoideis, utrinque obtusatis, 

 4,5-Gs 0,7-1 hyalinis (luce refracta chlorinis). 



Half. ad ramos emortuos Fagi betuloidis in Staten island 

 et Fuegia tota. — Species summopere polymorpha, in juventute 

 nunc Cenangii nunc Tryblidii cujusdam habitum simulans, per 

 etatem tamen mox dignoscenda: asci centrifuge evolvuntur (jam 

 prima juventute) margine tandem semper sterili. lodi ops nuUa. 



EPHELINA Sacc. (Etym. ephelis ustio a sole), Ephelis Phill. Disc. 

 p, 358, nec Fr., nec Sacc, Excipula Fuck. et Berk. p. p. — Asco- 

 raata tuberculiformia, demum patellata, ceracea v. subcoriacea, ses- 

 silia, minuta, atra crusta effusa subinde cornea nigricante insiden- 

 I tia. Asci elongati , paraphysati, octospori. Sporidia oblonga conti- 

 ' nua, hyalina. — An Pyrenop. Gentiancv (n. 1496) huc pertineat, 

 dubium. 



1. Ephelina Rhinanthi (Phill.) Sacc. Ephelis Phill. Disc. p. 358, t. XI, 24?4 

 f. 69, Rhytisma radicalis 'Cooke in Grev. VIII, p. 9 (immat.) — 

 Cupulis tuberculatis, congestis vel gregariis, crusta cornea effusa 

 atra insidentibus, denique expansis, patellatis, subceraceis, nigris ; 

 ascis tereti-clavatis, 8-sporis; sporidiis oblongis v. clavatis, 3-gut- 

 tatis, 10=; 5; paraphysibus filiformi-clavulatis. 



Hab. in caule imo et radice Rhinanthi Cristae-galli, Aber- 

 deen, Forres, Whitchurch Britannire. — Ascomata '/,, mm. lat. 

 extus rugulosa, intus pallide grisea. Adest st. stylosporeus ; sporulis 

 fusoideis 2-pluriseptatis, 70 = 5. 



l. Ephelina stromatica (Fuck.) Sacc. Excipula Fuck. Symb. p. 400. 2425 



— Ascomatibus in stromate spurio, tenuissimo, atro insidentibus, 

 subconfluentibus, orbicularibus, planis, umbilicatis, astomis, nigris; 

 ascis ovato-oblongis, curvatis, 8-sporis, 28^12; sporidiis ovato- 

 clavatis, simplicibus, 10 s 4 hyalinis. 



Ilab. in caulibus siccis Silenes nutantis, ffistrich Rheno- 

 govia; et in Jura (Morthier). 

 ^. Ephelina Viburni (Fuck.) Sacc E.ccipula Fuck. Symb. Myc. p. 400. 2425 



— Ascomatibus .*;parsis, punctiformibus, in macula grisea, indeter- 

 minata, hemispha^ricis, mox cupula;formibus, astomis» atris; ascis et 

 sporidiis maturis nondum visis. 



