Sphaeriace£e, Allantosporae, Valsa. 111 



Hab. in cortice Juniperi comraunis et virginianae in 



Italia, Germania, Fennia, Amer. bor. — Affinis V. Dubyi Nits. 

 Var. invalida Karst. V. cenisice extus simillima, sed adhuc fere 



minor ; ascis 25 - 3-4 ; sporidiis subdistichis vel conglobatis, 5-6 ^ 1 ; 



spermatiis rectis vel subrectis, elongatis, 3-4 ^; 0,5-1 diversa. — In 



cortice ramulorum Juniperi communis in regione aboensi Me- 



rimasku (Fennia), Junio. 



7. Valsa sabalina Cooke in Grevill. VII. 52. — Tecta, prominula; ^^^ 

 pustulis iii maculis elongatis nigricantibus insidentibus ; ostiolis con- 

 vergentibus, emergentibus ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis linearibus, ob- 

 tusis, curvulis, 8-9 a. long. 



Hab. in Sabal, Darien, Amer. boreali. 



8. Valsa strobiligena Sacc. et Roum. Reliq. Lib. II. n. 186. — Acer- 436 

 vulis minutis, erumpentibus, nigris ; peritheciis paucioribus, ostiolis 

 conjunctis, vix excedentibus ; ascis tereti-oblongis, sessilibus, 30- 



35 a 6-7, octosporis ; sporidiis distichis, allantoideis, curvulis, 8-9 ^; 

 1^2-2, hyalinis. 



Hab. Malmedy (Germania) in squamis strobilorum Abietis 

 excelsae. — An forma deminuta V. Abietis Fr.'? 



9. Valsa Abietis Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 412. Sphceria Pinastri 437 

 Grev. — Stromate exiguo, e basi orbiculari depresse conoideo, pe- 

 ridermio fere integro et ostiolorum fasciculo solum pertuso tecto, 

 corticis interioris parenchymate, specie immutato, composito; pe- 

 ritheciis in singulo stromate 5-15, minutis, monostichis, mutua 

 pressione semper fere angulatis, in colla brevissima attenuatis; 

 ostiolis, incrassatis, atris, laevibus, confertissime stipatis, minimis, 

 sphaeroideis, rarissime longius exsertis, subcylindraceis ; ascis an- 

 guste clavatis, sessilibus, 28-36 i; 4-6; sporidiis, conglobatis, elon- 

 gatis, curvulis, vel subrectis, 6-9=^1,5. — Sperraogonia forma et 

 magnitudine stromatibus perithecigeris simillima, collo crasso ro- 

 tundato v. truncato, ex griseo vel luteo fuscescente poroque an- 

 gusto unico, rariiis pluribus, aperto instructa, multilocularia ; sper- 

 matiis, exilissimis, 3=^1. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis Abietis excelsae in tota fere Eu- 

 ropa. — /S. ceratina Fr. S. M. II. 398, pustulata, erumpens, ostio- 

 lis in discum exertis tentaculatisque. In ramis abiegnis. 



10. Valsa microstoma (P.) Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 411? Nits. Pyr. 438 

 Germ. p. 193. Sphceria microsioma Pers., an. Fr.? — Stromate 



e basi rotundato-ovali convexo, rarius conico, in discum ovalera, 

 imrao fere ellipticum, rarius orbicularera cylindricura abrupte at- 



