106 Splia3riacea3, Allaiitospora}, Quaternaria. 



10. Coronophora myriospora (Dur. et Moiit.) Sacc. Sph. myriospora 422 

 Dur. et Mont. Fl. Alg. p. 524, Syll. Crypt. n. 846. — Tecta, con- 

 ferta, subseriata; peritheciis minutis, globosis, collabascentibus, fu- 

 scis, ostiolo erumpente, obtuso, poro pertuso, disco nuUo ; ascis cla- 

 vatis, polysporis; 60-100 ^ 15; sporidiis linearibus obtusis, 3-4-gut- 

 tulatis, 15=; 2.5. 



Ilah. in ramis Jasmini fruticantis, Alger (Durieu). 



11. Coronophora ootheca (B. et C.) Sacc. Sph. ootheca B. et C. Nortli 423 

 Amer. Fungi n. 899. — Congregata, globosa, glabrescens, nitida, 

 raacula nigra insidens; ascis obovatis, sporidiis nuraerosis, allan- 

 toideis farctis. 



Hah. in rarais quercinis in Ainer. bor. — Sph. mucida /3. 

 rostcllata Schw. in Rhoe huc spectat; in hac asci 25 u. longi : 

 exemplaria in Quercu pra^bent ascos majores. 



12. Coronophora Broomeiana (Berk.) Sacc. Sphceria Bt^oomeiana 424 

 Berk. Dec. n. 496. — Peritheciis in caespitem orbicularem con- 

 gestis, atris, opacis, setis brevibus exasperatis, ostiolo papilliformi 

 notatis V. omnino astomis; ascis clavatis latis; sporidiis innuraeris 

 minutis oblongis curvis, hyalinis. 



Hab. in lignis putrescentibus, Ceylon (Thwaites). 



QUATERNARIA Tul. Fung. Carp. II. 104 (Etyra. quaternus, ob peri- 

 thecia in soris saepe quaterna). — Perithecia cortice nidulantia, 

 circinatim quaterna-sena, nigrolimitata; ostiolis convergentibus di- 

 sculum perforantem formantibus. Asci stipitati, octospori, apara- 

 physati. Sporidia botuliforraia, olivacea. — Sperraogoniura sistit 

 Libertellcu species. 



1. Quaternaria Persoonii Tul. Carp. II, 105, t. XII, f. 16-25. Sphce- 425 

 ria quaternata Pers. Syn. p. 45. — Circinata; peritheciis sub- 

 quaternis cortice nidulantibus, basi applanatis, nudis decurabenti- 

 bus, ostiolis brevibus, obtusis Lnevibus, pertusis, convergentibus, epi- 

 dermidem jequalem vix superantibus, ; ascis oblongo-clavatis, lon- 

 gissime stipitatis, 50-80^:8-10 (p. sporif.); sporidiis distichis^ cy- 

 lindraceis, curvatis, continuis, dilute-fuscis, 16 ^ 3-4. — Stat. sper- 

 monicus Libertellam fagineam Desm. sistit. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis Fagi sylvaticae, rarius Casta- 

 neft?, Aceris, Carpini. Alni serrulatse in Britannia, Sue- 

 cia, Gallia, Italia, Helvetia, Belgio, Amer. bor. — Perithecia 3-6 . 

 decumbentia, circinantia, libera, ovata, majuscula. Ostiola brevia, 

 subincurva, epidermidera perforant, sed non prominent, inter se 



