386 Sphaeriaceae, Phaeosporae, Hypoxylon. 



Plant. gen. 104, tab. 55, fig. 1. — Stromate in ligno superficiali, I 

 longe lateque effuso. atro, levi, opaco; peritheciis densis.sime sti- I 

 patis, grandiusculis subglobo.sis v. mutua pressione angulatis, ver- ■ 

 tice rotundatis, liberis, prominulis, circa papillam minutissimara im- 

 pressis; ascis longe pedicellatis, cylindricis, octosporis, paraphysi- 

 bus tenuissimis, filiformibus simplicibu.sque stipatis, S8-100 ^ 8 p. 

 sporif. ; sporidiis monostichis, late fusiformibus, utrinque acutius- 

 culis, rectis v. plus minus ina^quilateralibus, fuscis, 16 = 5-6. 



Hab. in basi truncorum emortuorum Lauri nobilis, Pisa, 

 Treviso (Ital, media et sup.). 



150. Hypoxylon bifrons De Not. Sfer. ital. p. 18, t. 16, Sacc. Fungi ^^^;^ 

 ital. tab. 579. — Stromate effuso, subspongioso, tenui, superficie 

 crustaceo-corticato, scabro, fusco-atro, perithecia majuscula, dis- 

 creta, pustulaeformi-protuberantia excipiens ; peritheciis I^IV^, 2 

 mill. diametro, medullfe stroraatis ipsius basi insidentibus, discretis, 

 rarius gerainatis, tota parte superiore eraergente velo gruraoso laete 

 aurantiaco intercedente, strato superficiali crustaceo stroraatis ob- 

 tectis, verrucas heraisphaericas, atras, scabridas, astoraas in cubi- 

 lium superficie portendentibus, speciem siraplicem facile raentieu- 

 tibus ; ascis, teretibus, 8-sporis, paraphysatis ; sporidiis ellipsoideis, 

 oblongis, 20-25 y.. loug. dilute fuligineis, translucidis. 



Hab. in ramis Lauri nobilis Locarno Ital. bor. (Daldini). 

 Romce (Bagni). 



151. Hypoxylon aeneum Nits Pyr. Gerra. p. 17. — Stroraate iu ligno 14^4 

 denudato v. in cortice crassiore immaculato superficiali, effuso, te- 

 nui, margine plerumque sterili, aeneo, nitido, peritheciis esiguis, 

 globosis, papiliatis, dense stipatis. prominentibus tuberculoso; hy- 

 menio conidifero virescenti-cinereo, pulveraceo; conidiis subglobo- 



sis, minimis, in sterigmatibus longiusculis, sirapliciter v. apice ver- 

 ticillato-ramosis, septatis acrogenis; ascis cylindricis, longe pedi- 

 cellatis, octosporis, paraphysibus tenerrimis, siinplicibus, eseptatis 

 superatis, 124-140^9-10 p. sporif. ; sporidiis oblique monosticjiis, 

 ellipticis, obtusis, inaequilateralibus v. rectis, fuscis, 20-24 s 7-8. 



Hab. in ligno fagineo, coryleo, quercino, pr. Mimster et 

 Schwerin Germaniae. — Stromata 1-4 cent. longa, 2-10 mill. lata. 



III. Endoxylon Nits. : stromate matrice plus v. minus immerso, nigricante. 



152. Hypoxylon udum (Pers.) Fr. Surara. Veg. Scand. p. 384. Nits. Pyr. ^^^ \ 

 Germ. p. 52. Sph. uda Pers. Syn. 33. Sph. confluens Tode Meckl. 

 p. 19, Sph. albicam Pers. Syn. 70, Sph. ordinafa Fr. S. M. II. 



