Sphaeriacese, Hyalosporse, Botryosphaeria. 457 



octosporis, paraphysatis ; sporidiis obtuse ellipticis, inaequilateris, 

 continuis, bi-guttatis, 33 ^ 12. 



Hab. in cortice Quercus in Carolina, New York, New Jer- 

 sey etc. in Amer. boreali. — Gregaria, minuta, lineam circiter 

 longa, difformis, elliptica v. lanceolata, ostiolis prominulis rugulosa, 

 opaca, tota atra. Perithecia stromate tenui insident, sed nullo tecta 

 V, cincta, demum evacuata intus atra. — Cl. Ellis (Proc. Nat. Sc. 

 Phil. 1879, p. 66), ad hanc speciera permultas ducit qu£e fructifi- 

 catione revera satis inter se conveniunt sed vegetatione nimis diffe- 

 runt ut tute conjungi possint. 



2. Botryosphaeria Berengeriana De Not. Sfer. ital. 82, fig. 90. Sacc. 1763 

 Myc. Ven. Spec. p. 116, t. XI, f. 45. — Stromatibus erurapenti- 

 bus superficialibus, pulvinatis angulosis, v. circulari-discoideis ; pe- 

 ritheciis stromati semiimraersis, globulosis, obtusiusculis v. acutius- 

 culis, nigris, intus albis ; contextu atro-f usco ; ascis elongato-cla- 

 vatis, basi attenuatis, 70-80 ^ 18, paraphysibus filiformibus densis 

 obvallatis, Ssporis; sporidiis primo sphseroideis, dein ovoideo-fusi-, 

 formibus, 20-25 =; 10-12, subdistichis, hyalinis, nucleatis. — Do- 

 ihiorella Berengeriana Sacc. sistit pycnidium. 



Hab. in ramis corticatis Magnoli;Te grandiflorse, Fran- 

 gulse, Deutziae scabrae, Menispermi canadensis. Rhois 

 radicantis, Tiliae europseae, Ailanthi, Quercusses- 

 sil i f 1 orae, Rosai centifoliae, luglandis regiae, Sophorse 

 japonicae, Mori albse, .^sculi Hippocastani, Populi, 

 Polygalse, Pruni, Aceris, Platani etc. in Gallia, Germania, 

 Lusitania, Amer, austr. — -B. acutior Sacc. Fungi ital. t. 431. 

 Peritheciis liberis, subaggregatis, ostiolo acuto ; cetera typi, In ra- 

 mis P h i la d e 1 p h i , Selva, Ital. bor. — *B. melanommoides Sacc. 

 Fungi ital. t. 433. Peritheciis liberis, gregariis, ostiolo acutius- 

 culo; cetera typi. In ligno nudo populino, Vittorio, Ital. bor. 



3. Botryospiiaeria Arctostapliyii (Plowr.) Calif. Sphaer. in Grev. VII, 1754 

 p. 73. — Peritheciis superficialibus, insequalibus, varia magnitudine 

 subglobosis, depressis, collabascentibus ; ostiolis obsoletis ; ascis cla- 

 vato-pyriformibus 70 s; 15-20; sporidiis continuis, ovoideis, subinde 

 curvulis, 15-18 s 4-5, hyalinis. — Spermogonia phomatoidea : sper- 

 raatiis ovoideis, hyalinis 3-4:^1. 



Hab. in ligno Arctostaphyli glauci, California Amer. 

 bor. — Accedit ad var. melenommoidem B. Berengeriance. 



4. Botryosphaeria Juglantlis (Mont.) Sacc. Dothidea Juglandis Mont. i765 

 Pl. cellui. Cent. VIII, p. 126 (1860), Botr. juglandina De Not. 



