Sphseriacefe, Allantosporse, Coelosphseria. 93 



Hab. in ramis aridis Pyri Mali, in Mustialia (Fennia) mense 

 Aprili semel observata. — Csespites plerumque orbiculares, per epi- 

 dermidem erumpentes, stromate tenuiusculo, flavo, latit. 2-3 raill. 

 Perithecia tandem dehiscentia, molliuscula, stromati manifesto, fla- 

 vo dense acervatim insidentia. A C. cupulari (Pers.) et C. iristi 

 (Pers.) Sacc. peritheciis laevibus, rubris, pauUo majoribus, stromate 

 flavo statim dignoscenda. Cum Cucurbitaria acervata Fuck. Symb. 

 myc. p. 175 nihil commune habet. C. acervata Cook. Brit. Fung. 

 II, p. 841 duas species spectat sec. syn. — a Auctoritate cl. Kar- 

 stenii hoc loco retinui sed « perithecia rubra )) potius Hypocreaceam 

 designant ». 



5. Coelosphaeria chiliopyxls (B. et C.) Sacc. Sphceria chiliopyxis B. 38i 

 et C. North Amer. Fungi n. 906. — Minutissima, gregaria, niti- 



da globosa; sporidiis hyalinis leviter allantoideis. 



Hab. in lignis putridis in Carolina inf. (Araer. bor.). 



6. Coelosphaeria radicalis (Cooke) Sacc Cucurbitaria radicalis Cooke ^82 

 Grevill. VI, 51. — Pustulis variis, erumpentibus, valsoideis, pro- 

 minulis; peritheciis atris, ovatis, papillatis, opacis; ascis clavatis; 

 sporidiis linearibus, leniter curvulis, obtusis 8 _a. loQg. 



Hab. in radicibus quercinis, Aiken, Carolina (Amer. bor.). 



7. Coelosphaeria subconnata (B. et C) Sacc. Sphceria subconnata B. 3^3 

 et C. North Amer. Fungi n. 905. — Peritheciis hemisphsericis 

 supra corticem sparsis, depressis, subconnatis; ascis clavatis far- 

 ctis; sporidiis allautoideis. 



Hab. in ramis Liquidambaris, Carolina Inf. (Amer. bor.) 



FRACCHI^A Sacc. Myc. Ven. Spec. p. 115 (Etym. a cl. Josepho Frac- 

 chia Tarvisino, 1797-1869, mycologii^ cultore). — Perithecia ag- 

 gregata v. subsparsa, crustula stromatica insidentia, superficialia, 

 globoso-umbilicata, verruculosa, coriaceo-carbonacea , atra. Asci 

 clavati, polyspori. Sporidia allantoidea, subhyalina. — Species iu- 

 ter se admodum affines et nonnullae segre distinguendae. — Ra- 

 micolae. 



1. Fracchiaea heterogenea Sacc. Myc. Ven. Spec. p. 115, tab. XII. 384 

 f. 3-7. Fungi ital. t. 465. — Peritheciis aggregatis v. subsparsis, 

 crustula stromatica insidentibus supra lignum v. corticem uascen- 

 tibus e sphseroideo depressis, diam. y^ mill., extus intusque atris, 

 verruculosis, ostiolo minuto vix v. non prominulo, dein umbilicato ; 

 ascis elongato-clavatis, basi attenuatis, 70 i^ 12-14, polysporis, pa- 

 raphysibus asco longioribus, guttulatis, jodi ope tantum conspicuis 



