Perisporiacese, Perisporiese, Meliola. 61 



5-septata, fusca, quandoque vero continua v, fenestrata, hyalina 

 V. fusca. 



Obs. Genus elementis heterogeneis compositum, in posterum in 

 plura divellendum ; nonnulte species rectius forte inter Asterinas 

 adnumerandaj. Species didymosporas ad Bimerosporium transtuli. 



Eumeliola: sporidiis 2-5-septatis, fuscis v. fuscidulis. 



1. Meliola cymbisperma Mont. Syll. n. 904. Cent. IV, n. 96, in Ann. 275 

 2, XX, p. 374, — Csespitulis epiphyllis confluentibus atris, fibris 

 erectis; peritheciis opacis globoso-depressis, magnis, scabrosis; spo- 

 ridiis cymbiformibus altero fine attenuato substipitatis, bi-triseptatis. 



Hab. in foliis Smilacis globos?? in Surinamo (Splitgerber). 

 — In monographia cl. Boraetii hsec species desideratur. 



2. Melioia Arallae Mont. Sjll. Crypt. n. 907, Cuba p. 327. Amphi- 276 

 i^Hchum Aralicv Spreng. ! — Hypo- rarius epiphylla; hypothallo 

 maculseformi nigro radiante, ramulis pluriarticulatis ; peritheciis 

 ovato-globosis, atris, tandem Chcetomii ad instar apice ruptis, fi- • 

 bris rigidis nitidis; ascis trisporis. 



Ha^. in Cuba in foliis Arali?e (Bertero). — Sec. Bornet (Or- 

 gan. Meliol.) Amphitrichum Aralice Spr. spectat ad M. amphi' 

 tricam, a qua tamen M. Aralice Mont. satis differt. 



3. Meliola Argentina Speg. Fung. Argent. Pug. I. p. 177. — Amphi- 277 

 gena, orbiculato-confluens, velutina, atroniteiis ; peritheciis sphse- 

 ricis, astomis, 250-300 [j.. d. appendicibus paucis radiantibus, 200- 

 300 ^ 9, fuligineis, basi cinctis, granulosis, atris ; ascis paucis elli- 

 psoideis, breve crasseque stipitatis, bisporis, 45-50^:18-20; spori- 

 diis oblongo-cymbiformibus, 40 i? 8-10, utrinque obtusiusculis, 3- 

 septatis (spurie?), fumosis. — Macroconidia Helminthosporiitm ar- 

 gentinum Speg. sistentia, clavata, fusca, 4-septata, 55 w 15, hy- 

 phis rigidis fulta. 



Hab. ad folia languida Cj^peracese cujusdam in paludosis pro- 

 pe Buenos-Aires, Argent., Araer. merid. — Habitu externo per- 

 fecte congruit cum Meliola amphitricha Fr. forma Sabalidis (Ra- 

 venel, North-american fungi n. 81) sporidiis vero tantum 3-septa- 

 tis mox recedit. 



4. Meliola capnodioides Thuem. Fungi Austro-Afr. n. 53. — Epiphyl- 373 

 la, orbiculata, maculseformi, crassa, nigra, radiante, tandem pluri- 

 bus confluentibus ; fibris vel floccis subramosis, flexuosis, brevibus, 

 crassis, fuscis; peritheciis subglobosis, grumosis, carbonaceis; ascis 

 clavatis, apice obtuso, basi angustatis, tunica tenui, 30 ^ 9, hyaU" 



