Sphseriaceae, Phseosporse, RoselliQia. 261 



Hab. in squamis infra superficiem exteruam strobilorum 

 super exsiccatorum Pini sylvestris per Nordlandiam inferal- 

 pinam saltensem (Lapponia) rarius. — Etiam a celeb. Fries ut nova 

 species agnita. Minuta simplex, peritheciis pyriforrai-conicis, niti- 

 dis. Meraorabilis est situ peritheciorum, cum latere non basi af- 

 fixa sint, qua ex re tota stirps quasi obliquata et adscendens fit. 



III. Tassiella: peritheciis majusculis, distiQcte verrucosis, noQ setosis. 



35. Rosellinia Tassiana De Not. Sf. it. 19, t. XVI. — Peritheciis 950 

 raajusculis, subsparsis, sphaeroideis, basi saepius subcoarctatis, v. 

 crasso subpedicellatis, verrucosis, pachydermaticis, nigris, intus al- 

 bidis; ostiolo papillato, zona levicincto; ascis cylindraceo-clavatis 

 praelongis, octosporis, paraphysibus guttulatis obvallatis; sporidiis 

 ellipsoideis v. subovoideis, utrinque acutiusculis, 25-35 ^ 14-15, fu- 

 ligineis, ssepius 1-nucleatis. 



Hab. in ramis Mori, Siena, Pisa (Italia), Pruni spinosse, 

 Saintes (Gallia). 



36. Rosellinia callosa Wint. Hedn. 1874, p. 134. — Peritheciis gre- 951 

 gariis superflcialibus, media magnitudine, globosis v. pressione mu- 

 tua angulatis, minutissime papillatis, fusco-atris, opacis, profunde 

 areolato-rimosis, callosis, 1 mill. cr. ; ascis cylindricis, longe pa- 

 raphysatis, octosporis, 80-130-14 p. sporif., paraphysatis ; spori- 

 diis oblique monostichis v. subdistichis ovato-fusoideis, inaequilate- 

 ralibus, utrinque rotundatis, muticis, 19-26^:7-8, opaco-fuligiaeis. 



Hab. in cortice duriori Quercus dejecto, prope Lipsiam (Ger- 

 mania). — Affinis R. Tassiance, a qua peritheciis profundius areo- 

 lato-rimosis, sporidiis minoribus etc. recedit. 



37. Rosellinia megalocarpa (Plowr.) Sacc. Sphceria megalocarpa 952 

 Plowr. Calif. Spheer, in Grev. VII, 73, t. 120, fig. 1. _ Perithe- 

 ciis superficialibus, magnis, 3 mill. cr., sphaericis, nigricantibus, ru- 

 gulosis; ostiolis minutissimis, vix prominulis, areola pallidiore cin- 

 ctis; ascis cylindraceis v. clavatis, 70-130 ;; 10-15; sporidiis ovoi- 

 deis, 12-15=; 3-5, initio hyalinis, dein fuligineis, atris, 2-nuclea- 

 tis; paraphysibus numerosis flexuosis. 



Hab. in cortice putri Aceris in California. — Perithecia ma- 

 gna, sparsa v. subaggregata et tunc rautua pressione subangulosa. 



38. Rosellinia pllcatula (B. et Br.) Sacc Sph. (Caespitosae) plicatula, 9r.3 

 B. et Br. Fungi of Ceylon n. 1110. — Fasciculato-congesta ; pe- 

 ritheciis atris, collapsis, minute granulatis, plicato-rugosis; ascis 



