Sphaeriaeese, AUantosporse, Valsa. 119 



ovoideis, acutiusculis v. truncatis, atris, poro minimo pertusis, in 

 disculi cinerei, fuscescentis margine emergentibus, confertis, rarius 

 discum integrum occupantibus ; ascis anguste clavatis, sessilibus, 

 octosporis, 40 5i 6 ; sporidiis conglobatis, cylindricis, nonnihil cur- 

 vatis, hyalinis, 10^:2. — Spermogonia phyllogena, exigua, pauci- 

 loculata, cytisporoidea; spermatiis allantoideis , 4-5 i^ 1,5, breve 

 stipitatis. 



Hab. in ramulis Abietis pectinatae, in Gallia, Germania, 

 Belgio. 



31. Valsa incrustata (Kunze) Nits. Pyr. Germ. p. 208. Sphmria in- 459 

 crustata Kunze in herb. — Stromatibus exiguis, e basi suborbi- 

 culari convexis, valde depressis, dense sparsis, peridermio immu- 

 tato, ostiolorum disculo minutissimo solum perforato nec pustulato- 

 elevato, arce adhaerente omnino tectis; peritheciis in singulo stro- 

 mate 4-8, in circulum simplicem dispositis, parum confertis, glo- 

 bosis, ssepe depressis v. collapsis, pro ratione majusculis, corticis 

 interioris parenchymati semiimmersis et ab ejus strato supremo 

 immutato, stromatis vicem praebente obductis, decumbentibus, coUo 

 perithecii diametro pleruraque breviori, tenui, cylindrico, ostio- 

 lisque minutissimis, punctiformibus, aterrimis, nitidulis, rotunda- 

 tis, in disculi margine tantum v. confertira erurapentibus ac vix 

 exsertis; ascis clavatis, sessilibus, octosporis 30 s; 4-5 ; sporidiis sub- 

 distichis, cylindricis, nonnihil incurvis v. subrectis, hyalinis, 9-11 



Hab. in ramis Alni in Lusatia, rarius (Schmidt). — A V. ste- 

 nopora certe diversa. 



32. Yalsa intermedia Nits. Pyr. Germ. p. 199. — Stromate e basi 46o 

 orbiculari depresse convexo, minuto, peridermio plerumque arcte 

 adhaerente tecto, inde pustulato, disculo minimo, peridermium per- 

 tusum paullo superante, coronato ; pustulis dense gregatis basi saepe 

 confluentibus ; peritheciis in singulo stromate plerumque 3-8, ra- 

 rius pluribus (-25), majusculis, globosis v. compressis, subcircinanti- 

 bus V, monostichis, in collura brevissimum attenuatis; ostiolis sub- 

 globosis V, truncatis, rarissime modice elongatis, e basi incrassata 

 ovoideis, atris, nitidis, poro pro ratione majusculo pertusis, nunc 

 tantum in disculi ex cinereo fuscescentis margine, nunc — si plura 

 adsunt perithecia — in ejus superficie integra erumpentibus ; ascis 

 anguste clavatis v. oblongis, sessilibus, octosporis, 64:^8; sporidiis 

 subdisticis, curvulis v. subrectis, hyalinis, 10-16 i; 2-3. — Spermo- 

 gonia cytisporoidea ; spermatiis allantoideis 5-6 ^; 1,5, longe stipitatis. 



