124 Sphaeriaceaa, AUantosporiO, Valsa, 



sim eriiinpente, ollipticuin forinaiitibus, pleruinque dense stipatis, 

 apice nunc rotuudatis, v. truncatis poroque inagis perspicuo per- 

 tusis nunc attenuatis, conicis, rarissirae longius exertis, cylindri- 

 cis, paruin flexuosis; ascis anguste oblongis v. clavatis, sessilibus, 

 octosporis, 44-50 s 6; sporidiis conglobatis, cylindricis, nonuihil cur- 

 vatis V. rectis, hyalinis, 10-12 ^2^'^. — Spermogonia cytisporoidea: 

 spennatiis allantoideis 4-5 i;l, mediocriter stipitatis. 



llab. in rainis exsiccatis Fagi sylvaticae et Carpini in 

 Suecia, Germania, Gallia, Italia, Belgio. 



49. Valsa Liquidambaris (Schw.) Cooke Valsei of Un. St. 115. Grev. ^'^'^ 

 t. 75, fig. IG. Sphreria Liquidambaris Schw. Syn. Carol. n. 103. 



— Pustulata, rainor, peritheciis decumbentibus, ostiolis minutis sti- 

 patis, teretibus, brevibus; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis (sec. exempl. Cur- 

 tisii) allantoideis, hyaliuis, 12 u.. longis. 



Hab. in ramis Liquidarabaris in Carolina, New Jersey (Am. 

 bor.). — Media inter S. coronatam et aS'. decorticantem. Pustulae 

 lineam vix latse, subinde vero plures confluunt, prominentes, con- 

 ceptaculo a cortice interiori forraato brunneo, epidermidem radia- 

 to-fissam demum excutientes. Stroraa cinereum, in quo nidulan- 

 tur sphEerulse nigra? flexuosse. Discus nullus, sed ostiola in cen- 

 tro exserta, minuta, conferta, lcevia, nitida. 



50. Valsa sorbicola Nits., Fuck. Symb. Myc. 198. S. decorticans Fr. 478 

 S. M. II, 396 p. p. in Sorbo. — Pustulata, peritheciis subdiflformi- 

 bus, aggregatis, ostiolis rainutis, confertis, globosis, umbilicatis; 

 ascis oblongo-ellipticis, sessilibus, Ssporis, 24 :5 4; sporidiis farctis, 

 cylindraceis, curvatis, continuis, hyalinis, 8 ^; 2. 



Hab. in ramis exsiccatis Sorbi aucuparia? in Suecia, Ger- 

 mania, Helvetia. 



51. Valsa excorians C. et E. New Jersey Fungi in Grev. VIII, p. 14. 479 

 Pustulis in cortice immersis, elevatis, erumpentibus et epidermi- 

 dera ramorura excutientibus ; disco primo sordido ; ascis clavatis ; 

 sporidiis allantoideis, rainimis, hyalinis, 5-6 y.. long. 



Hab. in rarais Pyri arbutifolise, New Jersey (Amer. bor.). 



— Habitus Valsce decorticaniis Fr. ; a qua sporidiis dimidio rai- 

 noribus statim distinguitur. 



52. Valsa concamerata Curr. Linn. Trans. XXH, t. 48, fig. 134. — ^^^ 

 Peritheciis corticera elevantibus, conceptaculum concameratum ef- 

 ficientibus, inter se filis albis fibrosis connexis; sporidiis stipatis, 

 hyalinis, curvulis, 10 u.. long. 



