398 SphJeriaceae, Phasosporfie, Nummularia. 



Hab. in ligno truncorum Alni, Salicis etc. in Germaaia, 

 Britanuia, Suecia, raro. 



t). Nummularia discreta (Scliw.) Tul. Sel. Fung. Carp. II, p. 45, t. V, 1529 

 tig. 1-10, Mits. Pyr. Gerin. p. 60, Sph. di&creta Schw. Syn. Am. 

 bor. p. 195. — Stromate peridermio erumpente, determinato, or- 

 biculari, disciformi, niargine incra.ssato, cinereo-fusco, tandem ater- 

 rimo; hymenio conidifero ob conidia numerosissima pulveraceo, ci- 

 nereo-albido, in stromatis strato corticali, mox secedente expanso, 

 primo strato carnoso tecto; peritheciis atris, numerosissimis, locellis 

 inclusis, stroraate omnino immersis, collis brevibus ostiolisque haud 

 prominentibus instructis; ascis cylindricis, pedicellatis, octosporis, 

 paraphysibus longissimis filiformibus, stipatis, 150-180 s 13; spori- 

 diis monostichis, subglobosis, nigricantibus, 13 ^; 10 {((15-18 s 12»). 

 Ilab. in ramis crassioribus Mali, Sorbi, Cercidis, Ma- 

 gnoliae, Ulmi in Germania, Gallia, Italia, Carolina, Alabaraa, 

 New-York, Cuba. 



7. Nummularia dryophila Tul. Sel. Fung. Carp. II, p. 48. — Stroma- 1530 

 te pulviiiato, ambitu subcirculari, 1-3 cent. extenso, 2-3 mill. cras- 



so, atro; peritheciis imraersis, ostiolis non prorainentibus; ascis cy- 

 lindricis, 50-80 ::; 10-13, octosporis ; sporidiis distichis, 16^6,5, fu- 

 ligineis, muco destitutis. 



Hah. in cortice quercino in Gallia. 



8. Nummularla gigas Plow. Grevill. VIII, p. 106, t. 130, fig. 3. — 1531 

 Erumpens, e cortice interiore lignoque subjacente oriunda, initio 

 suborbicularis, denique elliptica v. elongata ; extus nigra, concava, 

 subrepanda, ob ostiola prominula rugulosa, intus fibrosa albido-ci- 

 nerea; peritheciis periphericis, densis, pyriformibus, mutue cora- 

 pressis, coliis longis, ostiolis prominulis, rotundis nigris; ascis cy- 

 lindricis, stipitatis 120-150 ^ 12-15, p. sporif. 50-60 y.. longa; spori- 

 diis octonis monostichis, ovoideis v. subrotundis, subinde nucleatis, 



10-12:^8-10. 



Hab. m cortice Betulae, Ringstead Downs, Britannia. t— 

 Stroma 3-4 cent. long. 1 cent. lat.., 3-4 mill. crass. 

 U. Nummularia frustulosa (B. et C.) Sacc. Hjjp. (Glebosfe) frustulosum 1532 

 B. et C. Cuban Fungi n. 817. — Minor, gregaria, irregularis, 

 depressa, subtus, centro excepto, libera, intus alba suberosa; peri- 

 theciis immersis vel semiimmersis; ostiolis prorainulis; ascis fili- 

 formibus rectis; sporidiis brunneis, rainutis 5^:2,5. 

 Ilab. in ligno putri in Cuba. 

 10. Nummularia Wrightii (B. et C.) Sacc. Hyp. (Glebosse) Wrightii B. 1533 



