132 Sphferiaceae, AUantosporaB, Valsa. 



Germ. p. 212. Sphcrria salicina Pers. — Stromate e basi orbi- 

 culari conico, depresso, truncato, paullo protuberante, pustulato, 

 salvo disco, peridermio adhaerente, integro tecto; peritheciis in sin- 

 gulo stromate 6-12. circinantibus, globosis, collis brevissimis ac te- 

 nuissimis instructis , corticis parenchymati iramutato insculptis; 

 ostiolis in disci erumpentis, minimi, albidi margine v. in ejus su- 

 perficie ordine vario ac sero emergentibus vix exsertis, minutissi- 

 mis, atris, globosis, poro angustissimo pertusis; ascis anguste ob- 

 longis V. clavatis sessilibus octo- v. tetrasporis, 44-68;; 8; spori- 

 cylindricis, curvulis, unicellularis, hyalinis, in ascis octosporis sub- 

 distichis, 12-18 i;2V2-4 ; in ascis tetrasporis vero duabus asci me- 

 dium et e reliquis altera ejus partem superiorem altera inferio- 

 rem occupantibus, 20-32 s 5-7. — Spermogonia {Cytispora fugax 

 Fr.), radiatim multilocellata; spermatiis allantoideis 4-5i;l,longe 

 stipitatis tandem in cirrhos rubellos v. pallidos protrusis. 



Hab. in ramis Salicis albae, vitellinae, triandrag, fra- 

 gilis, babylonicae in tota fere Europa et Amer. bor. — Ad- 

 sunt in Amer. bor. forrase parura diversae in Viburno, Liqui- 

 dambar, Platano. 



87. Yalsa boreella Karst. Myc. Fenn. II. p. 141. — Peritheciis 12- 515 

 20 in quovis stromate, circinantibus, sphaeroideis, sat minutis, ostio- 

 lis incrassatis, subsphaeroideis, laevibus, atris, sat minutis, in mar- 

 gine disci confertissirais ; sporidiis octonis cylindraceis, curvulis 

 vel subrectis, conglobatis, 7-10, raro -12=; 1,5-2; sperraatiis elon- 

 gatis, curvulis, 4-6^:1. 



Ilab. in ramis Salicum in Lapponia orientali passim v. c. 

 Sasheika, Rasnavolok, Kola. Etiam prope Mustiala, ad Salicera 

 c a p r 33 a m . 



>i^. Valsa Curreyi Nits. Pyr. Germ. 202. Sphccria Abietds Curr. Linn. 516 

 Trans. XXII, pag. 279, fig. 147, nec Fr. — Stromate e basi or- 

 biculari, rarius ovali conico-truncato v. fere hemisphaerico, pro- 

 tuberante, lateribus peridermio stellato-fisso, adha^rente tecto: pe- 

 ritheciis in singulo stromate 3-15, plerumque 5-8, in corticis pa- 

 renchymate iramutato circinatira, rarius monostiche nidulantibus, 

 majusculis, subglobosis v. compressis, coUis brevibus instructis ; 

 ostiolis incrassatis, globosis, papilla rainiraa, atra, nitidula, poro 

 angustissimo pertusa superposita, nunc in disco ex albido-fusce- 

 scente dispersis vel in ejus raargine emergentibus, nunc contra den- 

 se confertis, discum integrum occupantibus ; a.scis anguste clavatis, 

 membrana apice crassiuscula textis, octosporis, 68-76^:8-9; spo- 



