162 Sphseriaceoe, AUantosporse, Valsella. 



peo obvolutis, perpendicularibus copiosis, ovato-oblongis in coUum 

 lougiusculum attenuatis, ostiolis clavato subcapitatis, non extanti- 

 bus; ascis copiosis aparaphysatis obovato-lanceolatis, subsessilibus, 

 50-6, polysporis; sporidiis stipatis, allantoideis, curvis, 6 s 1-1,3 

 hyalinis. 



Hab. in ramis aridis Acaciae, Keren, Abyssinia (Beccari). 



15. Valsella polyspora (Nits.) Sacc. Valsa pobjspora Nits. Pyr. Germ. gig 

 p. 238. — Stromate exiguo, e basi orbiculari, depresse conico, 

 omnino immerso nec erumpente v. pustulato, disco rotundo peri- 

 dermium perforante idque paullo tantum v. vix superante, primo 

 cinereo-albido, deinde fuscescente; peritheciis in singulo stromate 

 2-8, circa spermogonium circinantibus, globosis, minutis, in col- 

 lum tenuissimum attenuatis ; ostiolis minutissimis, punctiformibus, 

 atris, discum non superantibus ; ascis anguste clavatis, sessilibus, 

 polysporis, 56 s 8-10; sporidiis conglobatis, cylindricis, curvatis 



V. subrectis, hyalinis, 9-12 ^2^^. 



Hah. in ramis Betulae prope Miinster, Germ. (FUisting). 



16. Valsella melastoma (Fr.) Sacc. Sph. melastoma et V. ^nelastoma 6i7 

 Fr. S. M. et Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 411. — Stromate conico-atte- 

 nuato, plus minus protuberante, peridermio plerumque adhaerente, 

 circ. 1 mill. diam., disco orbiculari vel subellipsoideo, minutissimo, 

 primum cinereo-albido, demum fuscescente; peritheciis in siugulo 

 conceptaculo 2-6, subcircinantibus, subspha3roideis, majusculis coUis 

 brevibus, tenuissimis ostiolisque perexiguis, rotundatis, atris, con- 

 fertis, raro sparsis; ascis cylindraceo-clavatis, 30-50^6; sporidiis 

 couglobatis, cylindraceis, leniter curvulis vel subrectis, 4-7 s 1. 



Hab. in ramulis Pyri Mali in Suecia, Germania, Fennia. 



EUTYPA Tul. Sel. Fung. Carp. II. p. 52 (Etym. ev bene et t//poo in- 

 sculpo, ob perithecia matrice profunde inscul])ta). — Stroma late 

 effusum ex matrice (ligno v. cortice duriore) plus v. minus rnuta* 

 ta, saepius atroinouinata efformatum, initio hyphis conidiophoris 

 vestitum. Perithecia stromati immersa v. semiimmersa plerijmque 

 dense et late gregaria. Asci octospori, stipitati, aparaphysati. Spo- 

 ridia subhyalina. — Spermogonia, ubi adsunt, cytisporoidea. 



A) Ostiola radiatim sulcata. 



1. Eutypa Acharii Tul. Carp. II. 53, t. VII, f. 8-20. Sph. eulypa eis 

 Fr. Sph. decomponens Sow. Sph. astroidea Fr. V. eutypa (Ach.) 

 Nits. Pyr. Germ. p. 130, Sacc. Myc. Ven. Sp. p. 129, t. XIV, f. 32-34. 



