182 Sphieriacere, Allantosporco;, Cryptospliaeria. 



globosis V. ovatis, irregulariter sparsis, nunc singularibus, discre- 

 tis, nunc contra plus minus confertis, serie siraplici v. rarius du- 

 plici ligni rimas occupantibus v. sine ordino gregatira stipatis in 

 collum crassum, breviusculum sensim attenuatis; ostiolis grandiu- 

 sculis, prominentibus, primitus rotundatis, dein medio depressis poro 

 angusto perforatis, postreino excavatis, subpezizoideis fuscis; ascis 

 anguste clavatis, subsessilibus, octosporis, membrana tenui textis, 

 G0s6-7; sporidiis distichis, cylindricis, nonnihil curvatis v. subre- 

 ctis, saturate fuscescentibus, 12-14^3. 



Jfab. in ligno Abetis in Lusatia et Suecia, rarius. 



3. Endoxyla macrostoma Fuck. Symh. rayc. App. I. 322. — Sper- 674 

 raogoniis ut generis, in series lineares, longas dispositis; sperma- 

 tiis circ. 4 = 1. — Peritheciis ascigeris in greges plerumque bise- 

 riales, raro uniseriales et sparsas dispositis, raajusculis in collura, 

 perithecium suba^quans attenuatis ; ostiolis prominulis raajusculis, 

 '/4 mill. lat., spha.M'ul2eforraibus, globosis seu late ventricoso-coni- 

 cis, vertice parum umbonatis, papiHaLis, numquam cupulaeformibus, 

 atris, lignum inquinantibus, sed quandoque raycelio (stroraate?) bys- 

 sino, albo vel fusco circuradatis; ascis 58 s 6-7 p. sporif. ; stipite 

 40-50 ;j.. longo; sporidiis 10-12 s 3; spermatiis 4^:1, 



Hab. in rarais putrescentibus et hurai dejectis Quercus, ra- 

 rius, Bachweg Rhenogovia. — Ab E. parallela et operculata for- 

 ma ostiolorum praecipue differt. 



CRYPTOSPH/ERIA Grev. Sc Crypt. t. 201 pro min. parte. De Not. 

 Scheraa sf. p. 231 p. p. Fuck. Syrab. rayc. 211 (Etym. crypios 

 abditus, et sphcvrta, quia perithecia peridermio tecta). — Stroma 

 corticaie, sed vix manifestura. Perithecia aequaliter et densiuscule 

 gregaria cortici iramutato imraerse, nuraquam ligno adnata. Asci 

 stipitati, octospori, apiraphysati. — Spermogonia cytisporoidea. 



1. Cryptosphaerla millepunctata Grev, Crypt. Scot. t. 201, De Not. 575 

 Sf(M-. ital. p. 41 >, t. 17, iioc Auct. plur. Sph. Corticis Curr. Val- 

 sa eunomia (Fr.) Nits. Pyr. Germ. p. 160. Sph. eunomia Ft. S. 

 M. II. p. 377. — Stroraate effuso, pleruraque brevi, raaculseformi, 

 rarius ambiente, cortici innato, spurio ; peritheciis raonostichis, den- 

 se gregatis, cortici interiori irarautato imraersis, globosis, majuscu- 

 lis, peridermio haud colorato v. nonnihil expallente, plerumque pa- 

 rum elevato tectis, in collum brevissimura attenuatis ostioloque rai- 

 nutissimo, punctiformi, nigro, hemisph:erico, vix prominulo instru- 

 ctis; ascis clavatis, longissime pedicellatis, octosporis, 60-80 = 8- 



