236 Sphaeriacea"!, Phaeospora;, Sordaria. 



brevLssimis obsito; ascis sub-clavatis, octosporis; sporidiis ovoideis, 

 fuligiiieis, appendiculis hyalinis angustissimis, curvis auctis. 

 Hab. in fimo vaccino, Finistere (Gallia). 



Phytogenos. 



li). Sordaria lignicola Fuck. Symb. Myc. App. I, p. 38, Wint. Sord. p. ^^ 

 27, t. IX, f. 15. — Peritheciis massa pelatinosa sordida circumdatis, 

 sparsis gregariisque, aut in iigno molli immersis, aut et plerumque 

 lii)eris, majusculis, nigris, e basi globosa sensim in rostrum cras- 

 sum, truncatum, perithecium dimidium subaequans attenuatis, GoO 

 sDOO; ascis amplis, elongatis, Hsporis, 152^:15 p. sporif. ; sporidiis 

 distichis, immaturis cylindraceis, curvatis, multiguttulatis, conti- 

 nuis, hyalinis, utrinque appendicula spiniformi, recta, diametrum 

 sporidii rrqaante, 48 s 4; sporidiis raaturis plerumque ab appendi- 

 culis liberatis, ovatis, basi truncatis, antice attenuatis, simplicibus, 

 opaco-fuscis, 17 :i 10. 



U(iJ>. in ligiio pntri Fagi prope Eberbach (Rhenogovia). 



20. Sordarla tomentosa (Speg.) Sacc. Hypocopra tomentosa Speg. ^57 

 Fungi Arg. Pug. IV, n. 40. — Peritheciis densiuscule gregariis, 

 ovato-subpyriformibus, majusculis, 1-1,5 mill. alt., 0,5-0,7 raill. 

 crass., superficialibus, adpresse pruinuloso-lanuginosis, atro-oliva- 

 ceis, ostiolo conico, crassiusculo, vertice rotundato-truncato, atro, 

 glabro ornatis, contextu parenchymatico, membranaceo, olivaceo- 

 fuligineo; ascis cylindraceis, sursum longiuscule attenuatis, apice 

 truncato-rotundatis, deorsum breviuscule et crasse stipitatis, 240- 

 300^:35-40, octosporis, aparaphysatis; sporidiis oblique monosti- 

 chis, V, recte subdistichis, ellipticis, utrinque obtusiuscule rotun- 

 datis, inajusculis, 50-70^=25, intense fuligiueis, 1-guttulatis, dua- 

 bus caudibus mucoso-hyalinis ornatis; supera, subroquilongri, 5 fx. 

 crass., coRtorto-revoluta, infera recte flexuosa, nonnihil longiore. 

 Ilyph.-e peritheciorum strigoso-intricata}, breves, anastomosantes, 

 crebre ramulosju et parce septataj, fuligineo-olivacea), 5 a. crass. 



Hab. in ramulis dejectis emortuis Salicis Hu mboldtiana; 

 liuino ()l)V()hitis iii [)aludosis a la llecoleta, Arg., Amer. austr. 



21. Sordaria caudata (Curr.) Sacc. Sphcvvia caudata Curr. Linn. g^s 

 Trans. XXII, p. 320, t. 58, f. 50, — Peritheciis parvis, sparsis, 



V. paucis aggregatis, conoideis v. subglobosis, ostiolo conico ; ascis 

 crasso cylindraceo-fusoidois, breve stipitatis, octosporis; sporidiis 

 bi.seriatis ovoideis, 20 ;/. long., fuligineis, basi subtruncatis cauda- 

 que hyalina sesquiiongiore guttulata, curvula auctis. 



