Perisporiacese, Capnodieae, Scorias. 83 



vinulos Isevigatos aequabiles confluentes corapacto, floccis monilifor- 

 mibus nigris, peritheciis immersis globoso-depressis. 



Hab. in caulibus Cistorum fruticosis in regione mediterra- 

 nea Gallise. — A. ericophilce affinis, sed diversa videtur thallo 

 tenuiori crassitiem diraidise unciae haud attingente pulvinulos sub- 

 hemisphsericos inter se taraen contiguos formante, superflcie sequa- 

 bili laevigata (nec hispida ut in aliis); massara stupposara sisten- 

 te, difficile separandara; floccis magis ramosis, colore aterrirao, pe- 

 ritheciis thailo iraraersis obtectisque. 



SCORIAS Fries, Syst. myc. III, 290, Mont. Syll. Crypt. p. 257 (Etym. 

 a scoria, quia scoriara nigrara refert). — Perifhecia cornea, su- 

 perficialia, e clavato pyriformia, obtusa acuminatave, sicca rigida 

 fragilissima, humida mollia gelatinosa, orania e fibris thalli com- 

 posita; nucleus raucilaginosus, bibulus; asci obovoideo-clavaefor- 

 raes, crasse tunicati deorsum in stipitem attenuati, sporidia 4 fo- 

 ventes; sporidia fusiforraia, hyalina 3-septata. Thallus (myceliura) 

 tandera crassissiraus, niger, opacus, sponglosus, persistens, e floc- 

 cis subparallelis brunneis divergenti-raraosis inaequaliter articulatis 

 muco concolori luxuriante obductis concretisque. — Mont., Ann., 

 3, XII, p. 303, cum observationibus. — Fries, Nov. Symb. Myc, 

 p. 11, Berk. et Desra. Mould ref. Fumago (1849) p. 6 etc. 16 f. 1. 



1. Scorias spongiosa (Schw.) Fr. S. M. III. 291. Botrytis spongio- 37o 

 sa Schwein. — Char. generis. 



Hab. in America bor., Carolina, Ohio etc. in rarais, truncis, ra- 

 dicibus Fagorura, nec alibi, vere, copiose. — Fungus admodura 

 grandis, interdum duos pedes latus et longus, admodura rigidus et 

 persistens, opacus, niger; superficie valde inaequabilis, e fibris ma- 

 gis condensatis solidior, quam basis fungi (quse inter fibras rudes, 

 gelatina exsiccata, discretas et raateria cerino-grisea, huraida ge- 

 latinosa obductas, cavernosa fit) fibrillis parallelis pellucidioribus in 

 granula racemata abeuntibus obsessa. 



