294 Spliasriacoae, Phasosporae, Anthostoma. 



ma late efiusum eutvpeum v. valseum v. verruciforme, corticoluni 

 V. lignicolum. Perithecia membranacea, nuuKiuam vere carbonacea, 

 stromate immersa. Asci typice cylindracei, octospori, paraphysati. 

 Sporidia ellipsoideo-oblonga, fuliginea, — Spermogonia in paucis 

 nota cytisporea. 



1. Eiinnthosloma: stromate late effiiso, eutypeo. 



1. Anthostoma melanotes (B. et Br.) Sacc. Mich. I, 326, Fungi ilal. i097j 

 t. 1G4. SpJi. melanoies B. et Br. Fungi n. 634, t. 0, fig. 6 (1852). 

 — Stromate eff"uso ligno oninino inimerso, cjusque superficiem ni- 

 grificante ac maculas formante, i^lerumque elongatas, snepe con- 

 fluentes, fuscescentes vel tandem nigricantes, opacas, postremoin- 

 tus quoque nigro-Iimitato ; peritheciis exiguis, depresse globosis, 

 omnino immersis, monostichis, laxe sparsis, ostiolo exserto, mi- 

 nutissimo, integro, conico v. hemisphaerico, nitidulo, tandem per- 

 forato instructis ; ascis cylindricis breviter podicellatis, octospori, 

 paraphysibus simplicibus, eseptatis obvallatis, 70:;; 7,5; sporidiis 

 oblique monostichis, obtuse fusiformibus, rectis v. rarius nonnihil 

 infequilateralibus, nigricantibus, 12-14^:5-6. 



Var. Schmidtii (Auersw.) Nits. Pyr. Germ. p. 116, Sacc. Fungi 

 italici t. 163. A specie vix diff^ert ascis sporidiisque paulo angu- 

 stioribus, primis 80 =; 4-5, postremis 13-14^:4-5. 



Hah. species et varietas in rarais decorticatis Fraxini, Fa- 

 gi, Quercus, Rharani, Castanere, Alni, Pyri Mali in 

 Gerniania. Ilelvetia, Italia. Britannia et Fennia. 



2. Anthostoma tomentosum (Ehrenb.) Sacc. Cfr. Nits. Pyr. Germ. logg 

 p. 117. — A. melanoli affine, diff^ert stromatibus brunneo-ochra- 

 ceis, pilis conidiophoris subtomentosis ; ostiolis minoribus, rotundis, 

 nitidis ; ascis resorptis ; sporidiis ovoideis, 6^4, rectis fuligineis. 



Hab. in lignis in Germania (herb. Kunze). 



3. Anthostoma ferruglneum Nits. Pyr. Germ. pag. 118. — Stromate 1099 

 immerso, efluso, in ligno superficie maculas ferrugineas, elonga- 

 tas, stria?formes, rarius ellipticas v. suborbiculares ac parum ele- 

 vatas efficiente, parte immersa tamquam ligni substantia nigricante 

 formata ac tandem nigro-limitata; peritheciis alte imraersis, rao- 

 nostiche sed ordine inajquali dispositis, singulis in soros arctius 

 confertis quorum mediis concentricis, marginalibus vero conniven- 

 tibus. symmetricis, omnibus autem globosis, minutis, aterrimis, in 

 collum longum, tenue, cylindricum subito attenuatis; ostiolis nunc 



vix exsertis, minutissimis, perforatis, umbilicatis, nunc contra elon- 



