Sphaeriacese, Hyalosporse, Botryosphaeria. 459 



Rhenogoviae. — Peraffinis B. advence, secund. Fuck., sed tantum 

 pycnidica, ergo dubia. 



8. Botryosphaeria Crataegi (Schw.) Sacc. Sph. Cratcegi Schw. Syn. i769 

 Am. bor. n. 1445. — Casspitulis plerumque ellipticis, prorurapen- 

 tibus, nigris, aut fuscescentibus, laxe nempe ad dimidiam partera 

 involutis tomento furfuraceo-fusco ; peritheciis majusculis, paucis, 

 difformibus, semiliberis, demura pertusis (an primum papillatis'?) 

 intus albofarctis, demura evacuatis. 



Hab. in variis speciebus Crataegi, Bethlehera, Araer. bor. — 

 Horizontaliter secto csespitulo, perithecia subcircinnatira disposita, 

 in ipsa massa corticali nidulantia conspiciuntur. Sec. Eliis fructi- 

 ficatio Botryosphseriae. 



9. Botryosphaeria pyriospora (Ellis) Sacc. Sphceria pyriospora Ellis n70 

 Bull. Torr. Cl. 1874, p. 46. — Peritheciis cortice interiore nidu- 

 lantibus sparsis v. confluentibus, subinde seriate dispositis, peri- 

 derraium longitudinaliter perforantibus, initio albo-farctis ; ostiolis 

 leniter prominulis, minutis; ascis turgidis cylindricis; sporidiis ob- 

 longo-pyriformibus, 30 a. long., stipatis. 



Hab. in ramis Chionanthi virginicse, Newfield, New Jer- 

 sey, in America boreali. 



10. Botryosphaeria ambigua (Schw). Sacc. Sph. (confluent.) ambigua 1771 

 Schw. Syn. Am. bor. n. 1442. Melogramma ambiguum (Schw.) 

 Berk. Grev. V, 34, t. 75, f. 5. — Prorumpens ; csespitulis subro- 

 tundis nigris, satis elevatis ; peritheciis non ostiolatis, denique per- 

 tusis, subirregularibus, oblongis, imo sub flexuosis et globosis, paucis 

 tantum confluentibus; extus quamquara non glabris, quasi nitenti- 

 bus, intus albofarctis ; ascis tereti-clavatis, breve stipitatis, octospo- 



ris; sporidiis subdistichis oblongo-subrhorabeis, 32-37 ^ 12, hyalinis. 

 Hab. in sarmeutis Rhois radicantis, R. copallinse, Ca- 

 rolina, New .Jersey, Florida et Pensylvania, Araer. bor. 



11. Botryosphaeria Wisteriae (Rehm) Sacc. Thuemenia Wislerice 1772 

 Rehra Myc. E. n. 971. Melogramma Wisterice (Rehm) Cooke. — 

 Peritheciis aggregatis, minimis, ex matrice uigerrima oriundis, dein 

 elevatis, conoideo-subpapillatis, apice vix pertusis, nigerrimis, cor- 

 ticera, in plagas hysteriformes plerumque verticaliter diffindentibus 

 itaque lirellas aterrimas, peritheciis mamillosas praebentibus; ascis 

 clavatis, longe stipitatis, crassis, vertice prsesertim incrassatis, 150 



w 16-18, octosporis, parce ramoso-paraphysatis; sporidiis disti- 

 chis, obtuse rhoraboideis, uni-, tri-plurinucleatis, unicellularibus, 

 18-21 =; 8. 



