100 Sphneriacea?, Allantosporse, Cryptovalsa. 



Uah. in ramis tandem decorticatis Mori albne, Vittorio (Ita- 

 lia bor.) rarins. — Characteribus conidiorum et sporidiorum statim 

 a ceteris t^peciebus mihi notis dignoscitur, neque cum Diatrypella 

 genero ullo modo conjungi potest. 



9. Cryptovalsa Rabenhorstii (Nits.) Sacc. Myc. Ven. 135, tab. XIV, 698 

 fig. 47-20, Valsa Rahenhorsiii Nits. Pyr. Germ. pag. 158. Sph. 

 spicuIo)<a V. Robinicv Rabli. — Stromate efFuso, plerumque brevi, 

 maculapformi, immo valsa^formi, peridermio, haud nigrefacto tecto, 

 corticis parenchyraati imraerso ejusque substantia, specie immutata 

 formato, ligno rimoso-verrucosam; peritheciis submonostichis, den- 

 sissime stipatis, subglobosis v. mutua pressione angulatis, immer- 

 sis, atris, collo brevissirao cylindrico, crasso, ostiolo nonnihil in- 

 crassato, obtusissirao, rotundato, fandem obscure quadrisulcato, pa- 

 rum exserto, rarissime elongato, cylindrico instructis, hinc inde, 

 periderraio secesso, tandera liberis ; ascis clavatis v. fere oblongis 

 crassiusculis, longissirae pedicellatis, polysporis, 70-80 ^ 14-16 (p. 

 sporif.); sporidiis conglobatis, cylindricis, curvulis, fuscescentibus, 

 14-16^3-4. 



Ilab. in ramis corticatis Robiniae, Mori, Coryli, Fici, 

 pluriumque arborum in Germania et Italia. — Cfr. Michel. T, 

 p. 21 ubi raatrices et formas 22 descripsi. — Perithecia globosa, 

 intus, nitida, ^Z, raill. diam., nunc subsolitaria, nunc Valsw vel 

 Eufi/pce ad instar acervata, nunc seriatim disposita, modo corti- 

 cola, modo ligni basi insculpta; stroma nigrescens inter perithe- 

 cia excurrens plus minus manifestum ; ostiola vertice rotundata, 

 pertusa, levia v. rugulosa, numquam vere sulcata. 



10. Cryptovaisa arundinacea Sacc Fungi Ven. Ser. IV, p. 17, et F. 699 

 ital. tab. 15"J. Mycoth. Ven. III. n. 210. — Stromate serialiter 

 longe effuso sed linea nigra nullo circumscripto; peritheciis in se- 

 ries parallelas longiusculas plus minusve dense stipatis, in culmi 

 pubstantia extima omnino immersis, corticeque lineatim rimoso et 

 elevato tectis, majusculis, globulosis, subdepressis, V3 ^^^^- diam., 

 atris, extus albido-furfurceis ; ostiolis breve cylindraceis crassiu- 

 sculis corticem parum excedentibus, vertice rotundatis subincras- 

 satis, levibus v. obsolete rimolosis, fandem late pertusis; ascis 

 copiosis crasse clavatis, longissirae stipitatis, apice rotundatis, p. 



s. 60 r 12-13, stipite 50 Ig., polysporis; sporidiis dense congloba- 



tiscylitidraceis, curvulis 12-16=^3, guttulatis, hyalino-Iutescentibus. 



Hab. in culmis Arundinis Donacis, Vittorio (Ital. bor.). 



11. Cryptovalsa depressa (Fr.) Sacc. S. depressa Fries, in Mont. 700 



