142 Sphasriaceae, Allantospori», Valsa. 



stipatissime confertis disculum pleruraque integrum occupantibus, 

 rarius stromatis substantia parca, sordide lutescente disjunctis y. 

 cinctis ; ascis anguste clavatis, apice saspe truncatis, sessilibus, octo- 

 sporis, 48-60 = 6; sporidiis distichis v. oblique monostichis, cylin- 

 dricis, curvulis v. subrectis, fuscidulis, 9-12^:2-2^2, rarius 3. — 

 Spermogonia cytisporoidea; spermatiis 6-8 sl, longe stipitatis. 



Hab. in ramis emortuis Ilicis Aquifolii, prope Miinster 

 (Germania). 



110. Valsa translucens De Not. Schema Sfer. pag. 208, Nits. Pyr. 544 

 Germ. pag. 227, Sphccria iranslucens De Not. Microm. ital. — 

 Stromate conico-truncato, protuberante, pustulato 0,5-1 mill. cr., 

 peridermio arcte adhaerente velato; peritheciis in singulo conce- 

 ptaculo 2-8, plerumque monostichis, sphaeroideis, minutis, collis 

 tenuissimis ostiolisque punctiformibus, rotundatis atris plerumque 

 in centro disci confertis, minutissimis; ascis elongatis, sessilibus, 

 8-spori8, 40-44 i; 8; sporidiis conglobatis, cjlindraceis, curvulis, 9- 

 14 =; 2. - Spermogonia pauci-locularia, disculo albido, fusco-margina- 

 to, poro vulgo unico centrali; spermatiis elongatis, curvulis, 4-5 ^ 1. 

 Hab. in ramulis Saiicis babylonicae, rarius S. fragi- 

 lis, albns, pentandrae, purpureae etc. in Germania, Fennia, 

 Italia et Amer. bor. 



117. Vaisa cincta Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 411, Nits. Pyr. Germ. 545 

 p. 228, Sphfcrm cincta Fr. S. M. II, 542. — Stromate majuscu- 

 lo, e basi ovali v. suborbiculari in discum subrotundum v. sa?pius 

 ellipticum sensim attenuato, protuberante, pustulato, disco per pe- 

 ridermii rimas, transversim directas, erumpente ceterum perider- 

 mio arctissime adhaerente tecto, basi nonnunquam linea nigra cir- 

 cumscripto; peritheciis in singulo stromate 6-12, rarius paucis tan- 

 tum V. numerosis, circa sperraogonium centrale circinantibus, raro, 

 spermogonio compresso v. extincto, subraonostichis, globosis, majus- 

 culis, in stromatis substantia, corticis parenchymate pallidiore v. 

 fere concolore nidulantibus, collis crassis, longiusculis instructis; 

 ostiolis spermogonii centralis discum sordide albidura, iramo fusce- 

 scentem cingentibus, nonnihil exsertis, globosis v. truncatis, poro- 

 que pertusis, raajusculis, atris ; ascis clavatis v. oblongis, deorsum 

 plus minus attenuatis, octosporis, 52-88 = 9-14; sporidiis conglo- 

 batis, subdistichis, rarissirae monostichis, cylindricis, curvulis, re- 

 ctis, hyalinis, 16-20 = 5-6, raro 8-32 = 6-8. — Sperraogonia cyti- 

 sporoidea simplicia v. multilocularia; spermatiis allantoideis, 6-8 

 = 1,5-2, lougiuscule stipitatis. 



