Sphseriacese, Allantosporse, Eutypella. 147 



mate numerosis, submonostichis, dense stipatis, minutis, subglobo- 

 sis mutuaque pressione angulatis, collo longiusculo instructis ; ostio- 

 lis abbreviatis, valde incrassatis, globosis, rugosis, aterrimis, sul- 

 cis plerumque 5-6 subtiliter ac radiatira striatis, in discum v. cru- 

 stulam aterrimam, tuberculatam, suborbicularem v. ssepius irre- 

 gularem, peridermium arcte adhgerens, perforatum pauUo tantum 

 superantera confertissirae stipatis ; ascis anguste clavatis, longe pe- 

 dicellatis, octosporis, 30 s 4-5, p. sporif. ; sporidiis in asci lumine 

 utriraque attenuato subdistichis v. conglobatis, cylindricis, incur- 

 vatis, pallide fuscescentibus, 6-7^:172-2; astroraate spermogoni- 

 00 forma et dimensione ascophoris subsimili, extus nigro, rugoso 

 (non vero ostiolato) intus fusco-rubescente, minute pluriloculari, 

 loculis subglobosis; spermatiis filiformibus, arcuatis 20-22 i; y^, ste- 

 rigmatibus cylindraceis sursum attenuatis 20 i? 1 fasciculatis suf- 

 fultis, tandem in cirrhos rubellos protrusis )). 



Hab. in ramis crassioribus Carpini Betuli in Germania, 

 Helvetia, Italia boreali. 



3. Eutypella Padl (Karst.) Sacc. V. Padi Karst. Fung. Fenn. n. 355. ^^^ 

 Myc. Fenn. II. 134. V. 'padina Nits. Pyr. Gerra. p. 172. — Stro- 

 mate conico, disco orbiculari, ellipsoideo vel angulato, latit 1-2 

 raill. ; peritheciis 6-40 in singulo stroraate, densissime stipatis, sphae- 

 roideis, exiguis, coUis longiusculis ostiolisque basi connatis, oblon- 

 gatis, brevibus, obtusis, alte 4-5-sulcatis, atris instructis; ascis 

 cylindraceo-clavatis, 24-34 :i 4 p. sporif. ; sporidiis subdistichis, elon- 

 gatis, curvulis, dilutissime fuscescentibus, 6-8^:1-1,5. 



Kah. in ramulis Padi in Fennia meridionali usque in mediara 

 et prope Driesen, Germania. 



4. Eutypella Prunastri (Pers.) Sacc. Y. Prunaslri (Pers.) Fr. Suram. ^^^ 

 Veg. Scand. p. 411. Nits. Pyr. Germ. 170. An De Not. Sf. ital. t. 



35 (ostiola enim non sulcata), Sphceria Prunasiri Pers. — Stro- 

 mate valseo, e basi suborbiculari v. elliptica pulvinato, lentiformi 

 V. subconico, atro, ligno adnato, aetate juniore corticis parenchy- 

 mate velato, peridermium fissura pleruraque transversira erumpen- 

 te; peritheciis in singulo stromate numerosis, sine ordine stipatis, 

 subinde polystichis, centralibus erectis, coucentricis, marginalibus, 

 adscendentibus, conniventibus, subglobosis v. mutua pressione an- 

 gulatis, in collum, pro situ variae longitudinis attenuatis; ostiolis 

 incrassatis, sulcis 3-5, pleruraque 4, alte exaratis, nunc brevibus, 

 erectis confertissirais, nunc contra longioribus, divergentibus v. se- 

 cundis, flexuosis; ascis anguste clavatis, longe pedicellatis, octo- 



