38 Perisporiaceae, Perisporieae, Magausia. 



bus conidiophoris ciucta. Asci lineares, octospori. Sporidia ellip- 



soidea, continua. fnsca. 

 1. Ascotricha chartarum Uerk. 1. c Cooke Hand. n. 1936, fig. 319. ^57 



— Peritheciis teauibus, olivaceo-fuscis, floccis iterato-furcatis cin- 



ctis; ascis cylindraceis, copiosis; sporidiis suboctonis ellipsoideis, 



fuligineis. 



Hab. in charta typographica, King's Cliflfe (Britannia). 



MAGNUSIA Sacc. Michei. I, p. 122. — Perithecia e globoso horizon- 

 taliter oblonga, raembranaceo-carbonacea, astoma, glabra, basi fila- 

 raentis paucis apice circinatis cincta. Asci.... diffluentes? Sporidia 

 continua, olivacea. 



Obs. Hoc novum geuus, prseclaro inventori Paulo Magnus jure 

 raeritoque dicatum, a Chceiomidio diSert peritheciis nitidissimis, ap- 

 planato-oblongis, sola ima basi filamentis parcis cinctis; a Peri- 

 sporio fornia perithecii filameiitisque apice exquisite circinatis, 

 fuligineisque; ab Apiosporio. filamentis iisdem, sporidiis fuscis, 

 subiculo domatieo nullo etc. 



1. Magnusia nitida Sacc. Michel. I, p. 122. — Peritheciis superficia- 

 libus, horizontahter oblongis '/4-^3 long., aterrimis, nitidissimis, 

 astorais contextu rainute sed distincte celluloso, fuligineo, basi fi- 

 lamentis 6-8, plerumque geminatis, perithecio paulo longioribus, 

 apice exquisite circinatis, fuligineis cinctis; sporidiis ellipsoideis, 

 minutis, 4-5 - 3^^, lutescenti-olivaceis, guttulam hyalinam inclu- 

 dentibus. 



Hab. in ligno pineo putri Berolini, socio Chcetomio calve- 

 scente, 1869 (P. Magnus). 



Obs. Sporidia quandoque in glomerulos congregata videntur, 

 an ergo priraitus in ascis (cito difiiueatibus?) inclusa sint, proba- 

 bile est. 



ORBICULA Cooke Han.lb. of British Fungi p. 926, p. p. (Etym. orbisj. 

 — Periihecia subsuperficialia, raycelio lusco insidentia, subglobosa, 

 astoma, subraembranacea. Asci octospori, paraphysati. Sporidia glo- 

 boso-ovoidea. tandem opace fuliginea. 



I. Orbicula tartaricola (2syl.) Cooke — Handb. u. 2789. Sphceria tar- 

 (aricola Nyl. Leighton, On Sph. tartaricola, cura tabula. — My- 

 celio superficiali nigro-fusco, radiante, ramosissirao, articulato; 

 cellulis oblongo-moniliformibus nucleolatis; peritheciis sphaerico- 

 ovoideis (vertice rotundatis) sub-superlicialibus, nigris; ascis liuea- 



