Sphaeriaceae, Allantosporse, Coroaopliora. 103 



Hab. in ramis dejectis Populi nigrae, Cappenberg (Ger- 

 mania). 



CORONOPHORA Fackel Symb. Mycol. p. 229 (Etym. corone, corona, 

 et /ero, quia asci plerumque apice quasi coronati). — Perithecia 

 4-6 in soros aggregata, sub peridermio relaxato nidulantia, membra- 

 naceo-carbonacea, ventricosa, demum evacuata, perforata, ostiolis 

 brevissimis. Asci ampli obovati, longe abrupte-stipitati, sub apice 

 cootracti, multispori. Sporidia minuta, simplicia, cylindracea, cur- 

 vata, hyalina. 



1. Coronophora gregaria (Lib.) Fuck. Symb. Myc. 229. Cal. gregaria 4i3 

 Nits. Pyr. germ. 103. Sphceria gregaria Lib. CaL verrucosa TuL 



p. p. (in Alno). — Peritheciis circinatim, rarius caespitose ac den- 

 sissime sociatis, rarissime solitariis, magnis, suberectis, late ovatis 

 V. subglobosis, plerumque collabascentibus v. mutua pressione an- 

 gulatis, aterrimis, verruculosis, primitus parce pilosis mox autem 

 glaberrimis, collo destitutis apice tandem late perforatis, sub pe- 

 riderraio varie lacerato v. rimoso cortici interiori impositis, sub- 

 symmetricis v. oranino concentricis ; ascis late clavatis v. obovatis, 

 apice rotundatis, obtusissimis, in pedicellum longum plerumque pe- 

 detentim attenuatis, lumine plus minus constricto, myriosporis, 60- 

 80^:14-18 (p. sporif.); pseudoparaphj^sibus crassiusculis, filiformi- 

 bus simplicibus septatis saepeque nodoso-articulatis, ascis duplo tri- 

 plove longioribus; sporidiis numerosissirais, conglobatis, cylindri- 

 cis, curvulis, subhyalinis, 8-12^:2-3 (u 8 ^; 1,5-1,7, bi-guttulatis »). 

 Hab. in ramis corticatis Sorbi, Betulse, Cerasi, Tiliae 

 in Gallia, Germania, Italia, Belgio. 



2. Coronophora angustata Fuck. Symb. Myc. 229. Cal. angustata 4^4 

 (Fuck.) Nits. Pyr. germ. 105. Sphceria Leveillei Tul., Cal. ver- 

 rucosa Tul. p. p. (in Ceraso). — Peritheciis nunc numerosis, in 

 soros orbiculares v. ovales, medio steriles dispositis nunc paucis 

 tantum, circinantibus nunc denique oranino solitariis, inordinate 

 sparsis, concentricis v. symmetricis, erectis v. fere decumbentibus, 

 ovatis V. globosis, majusculis, tandem collapsis, plus minus verru- 

 culosis, atris, glabris, collo destitutis, vertice pertusis, per peri- 

 dermium varie fissum ssepe erumpentibus, in corticis interioris su- 

 perficie sessilibus, rarius ejus strato supremo basi imraersis; ascis 

 late obovatis, apice obtusissimis, basi saepe ventricosis, membrana 

 crassiuscula textis, in pedicellura exiliter filiformera, parte spori- 

 fera plerumque quinquies, immo sexies longiorem abrupte attenua- 



